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How to Properly Google for C
The problem with trying to use Google to find tutorials or answers for the C programming language is that C is not an expressive enough name to narrow down the searches. Even coupled with keywords ...
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How should HTML data formats be applied in everyday situations?
Given Google's shift towards a stronger focus on page markup data, how do the data formats used in Schema.org work alongside those for Microformats? How do these (and other specs) compliment each ...
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Interview question: How would you implement Google Search?
Supposed you were asked in an interview "How would you implement Google Search?"
How would you answer such a question? There might be resources out there that explain how some pieces in Google are ...
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Importance of learning to google efficiently for a programmer?
This is not a debate on usage of Google being good or bad for programmers.
Kindly refrain from doing so in your answers.
Most people (a vast majority of who use the Internet) use Google these days. ...
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Why is it so hard to find anything on MS site?
I have always had this question in my mind and I would really be happy to get an explanation for this.
Is it only me or do you also feel the same way that it's hard to find anything on MS site.
For ...
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Database fuzzy search concept
I thought about this, and have been trying to come up with solutions on how to fuzzy search a database, if for say example a user types a spelling mistake. Any glaring problems with the logic behind ...
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Find a “hole” in a list of numbers
What is the fastest way to find the first (smallest) integer that doesn't exist in a given list of unsorted integers (and that is greater than the list's smallest value)?
My primitive approach is ...
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Good library for search text tokenization
Looking to tokenize some text in the same or similar way in which a search engine would do it.
The reason we are doing this is so that we can run some statistical analysis on the tokens. The language ...
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heuristic for searching through non-perfectly sorted data
Given sorted data, the search solution is obvious. Given unsorted data, sensible options are sort then search or just linear search.
This question is about what to do if the data is somewhat sorted, ...
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Does searching documentation and samples look bad?
I am starting a new job in a company with many developers and media people, the layout of the place is open with computers around a skinny oval,
I have worked in small teams and programming embedded ...
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Looking for good books about the theory behind search engines
I am working on a project that requires that I understand different techniques used by search engines for the web.
I have a strong scientific and development background, so I am not afraid of highly ...
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How important is index size when searching?
My company has recently began using Apache Solr to search its data. As we learn how to use it we have gone down the path of indexing multiple fields to get the results we need. Most of these are ...
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Tips for switching jobs and moving into web based programming?
I graduated in 2006 with a computer science degree and got solid grades (3.5 overall 3.8 in my major) For the past 4.5 years I've been working as a Software Engineer doing primarily rich client ...
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Space complexity of Iterative Deepening DFS
We read on Wikipedia > Iterative deepening depth-first search that
The space complexity of IDDFS is O(bd), where b is the branching factor and d is the depth of shallowest goal.
Wikipedia also ...
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How to determine the source of a request in a distributed service system?
Map/Reduce is a great concept for sorting large quantities of data at once. What to do if you have small parts of data and you need to reduce it all the time?
Simple example - choosing a service for ...
