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Shift bytes through a fixed sized buffer
I'm writing an InputStream that processes data streams containing "trailer" data. That is, the final n bytes of the stream is a piece of data that must be handled separately and shouldn't be returned ...
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About Artificial Intelligence [closed]
I am interested in starting a career in artificial intelligence.
Can anyone suggest how I could prepare for this?
What languages should I study that would be best for this career choice?
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Plugin Architecture: How to Handle Databases and Logging?
I am in the process of designing an architecture for a plugin based application and I have some questions about how to handle database access and logging. The goal of my application is to allow a ...
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How to increase the efficiency of an Immutable Queue in java?
I have been developing an Immutable queue in java, but the version I have developed is supposedly slow and I have been suggested to create a faster version of the same and I have no idea as to how to ...
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Thoughts on a custom data structure for a node/chain implementation
I am designing a simple GUI that will allow a user to create a GPX route by clicking repeatedly on a map panel. I am faced with a design dilemma for how to represent the nodes and route. This ...
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2D grid with multiple types of objects
This is my first post here in programmers.stackexchange (I'm a regular on SO). I hope this isn't too general.
I'm trying a simple project to learn Java from something I've seen done in the past. ...
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Analyzing Memory Usage: Java vs C++ Negligible?
How does the memory usage of an integer object written in Java compare\contrast with the memory usage of a integer object written in C++? Is the difference negligible? No difference? A big difference? ...
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What Java data structure/design pattern best models this object, considering it would perform these methods?
Methods:
1. getDistance(CityA,CityB) // Returns distance between two cities
2. getCitiesInRadius(CityA,integer) // Returns cities within a given distance of another city
3. ...
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Real world usage of DelayQueue
What would be a real world usage of DelayQueue, what common problem it was design to solve?
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How would you transfer data between your data structures and databases?
I'm learning programming in school and I have this question that's bugging me about data structures and transferring the information stored inside them to databases. We're doing just small systems - ...
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Is there a pattern that will help with this data structure
I'm doing a java project. My main structure contains 2 lists with elements of type A the other type B. B itself contains a list of objects which may contain elements of A.
It must be that when an ...
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Is there a way to handle nested Collections more elegantly?
My question is rather a design question. In my program I got to a data structure that looks something like this:
private ConcurrentHashMap<A, ConcurrentHashMap<B, ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, ...
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How do you cope with Java coming from javascript?
I learned some javascript as my introduction into programming, and now I'm trying to move on to Java and Python and from there to c++, c#, etc.
I've been caught up with schoolwork, so I've had very ...
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Avoiding wrapper objects in collections
I'm getting a little annoyed of having to wrap primitive types in wrapper objects to store them in collection data structures (sets, maps, lists, etc.) in languages like Java and Objective C. I'd ...
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graph data structure in Java (or Python)
does Java have graphs as an intergrated data structure? How about Python?
I was assigned to write a program, that solves the TSP (travelling salesman problem) via the GRASP (greedy randomized ...
