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What is tabular programming?
The Falcon programming language advertises itself as supporting tabular programming:
Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural, object oriented, prototype oriented, ...
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Y combinator and tail call optimizations
The definition of a Y combinator in F# is
let rec y f x = f (y f) x
f expects to have as a first argument some continuation for the recursive subproblems.
Using the y f as a continuation, we see ...
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How to optimise an sentiment analysis algorithm for larger data sets?
I am a noob to sentiment analysis and found a good resource for Bayesian Opinion Mining and a way to make it self improving. I was wondering though, if the optimum analysis is dependent upon the ...
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Any good Semantic Web online resources for software dependencies?
I am planning to learn Semantic Web technologies in a little bit more detail, and as a practical application it would be interesting to know if there are any online resources, readily in semantic ...
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What API design for storing generic data in a more specific format?
for In the project I am working on we send messages about widgets over message queues, serializing them onto the queues as XML. The XML schema contains tags for properties that are common to all types ...
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Is this solution RESTful and secure?
Our product registers new players on our service, and we've chosen to host it on Azure (we're using .NET) and we wanted it to be stateless (for scalability) and relatively secure.
Since this is the ...
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Optimal Data Structure for our own API
I'm in the early stages of writing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange network; if you use Emacs regularly, this will benefit you in the end.
In order to minimize the number of calls made to ...
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Using a standard localised data cryptography pattern with an ASP.NET MVC3 application
I have been given the task to rejuvenate an existing Human Resources application from Access into ASP.NET. This is a strictly internal application, and I have no problems developing it within our ...
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Database Facade to wrap our existing queries?
We have a very big application written in C++ using the MFC framework (millions of code lines). No need to say that it's a legacy system, but it's also heavily maintained and updated. This application ...
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Can I use Visual Studio 2010 Architectural features to enforce design on code, without feature packs?
I am studying Visual Studio 2010's architectural tools for application lifecycle management.
After we have sketched some modeling diagrams, we wonder now how should be the natural workflow to convert ...
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Unit Testing DatabaseOpenHelper class in Android
I've written several unit tests for an already existing DatabaseOpenHelper class. I covered the creation scenario and migration from old schema to new one. Unfortunately, I don't feel that my tests ...
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Asynchronously returning a hierarchal data using .NET TPL… what should my return object “look” like?
I want to use the .NET TPL to asynchronously do a DIR /S and search each subdirectory on a hard drive, and want to search for a word in each file... what should my API look like?
In this scenario I ...
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SSO between multiple Flex applications
We have three applications developed in Flex and all these use BlazeDS. These applications have their own authentication implementations (Database). Also they will be deployed in tomcat. Deploying all ...
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Attachment handling for web application with Jackrabbit
I need to manage attachments on my Spring web application and I thought to use an open source repository. My app it's a job approval system using J2EE / SPRING 3 Framework and postgress DB to allow ...
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What could an algorithm look like that iterates through all combinations of two variables to aim at a certain number of entries?
For background information, see "Some background" further down.
I have a list that looks like this:
Start-Time-In-Seconds;End-Time-In-Seconds
1;2
4;6
12;15
...
This works together with a wave file ...
