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Optimizing method and removing useless code
I have such function which is parsing beautiful soup elements:
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Setting variables inside if / else-if statment blocks
I have written the code below and I am trying to work out if there is a more efficient way of doing it: i.e. less lines of code and quicker etc.
I am also wondering whether it is OK to declare ...
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Scalability of running commands from user input
Here is some code I have that has been extracted and shrunk down from a project of mine.
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How can I optimize my insert function for the cuckoo hash table?
I'm working on class for a hash table where collisions are corrected using cuckoo hashing, I had difficulty writing the insert function, the function is supposed to insert the key if the ...
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How can I optimize this string function so that it could work on very large strings?
I want to build a function which finds the longest substring that is common between two large strings, I want to do this using the first two functions.
I'm running it on very large strings (containing ...
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Secure row insertion using a position-based prepared statement
I have the following function to insert a new row into a table:
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Page loader function
This is the function which I wrote and am currently using in my project. I want to know if there is a better way to write it:
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PDO sign up function inserting data into multiple tables
This is a sign up function called on form submission. It firstly inserts key user data into the users table. If successful, secondary data is then inputted into ...
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Optimising and consolidating multiple PHPMailer functions
So the two functions below both send emails via PHPMailer but both hold different messages (which use different data from the db). I was just wondering (as I plan to use PHPMailer more) a way to ...
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Python Code Cleanup/Optimization
I am trying to clean up and make the following code more efficient -
https://gist.github.com/eWizardII/6757364
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Iterative Collatz with memoization
I'm trying to write efficient code for calculating the chain-length of each number.
For example, ...
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How can I improve this C style va_args replacement?
I inherited a lot of C code with many ellipsis (variadic) function.
So I have a lots of API with the following signature.
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How to improve a file access permission/deny function?
I've quickly made a function to deny or allow access to files that are only used thru Ajax Calls.
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How to improve function to detect the mime type using an agnostic method?
This function is used to get the mime type of any given file. The intended purpose was to have it working within any of our servers that vary from the latest PHP version down to PHP 4.
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How can this function to get a remote file improve?
I've prepared a function using cURL to get a remote file to the local storage:
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How to optimize function that checks if a directory is empty when having over a million files inside?
I have the following function to confirm if a directory contains files:
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How to improve this PHP function to confirm the presence/create directories?
While preparing an automated process to manipulate files, I've made the following function to check for the base directory and sub-directories presence, as to allow or deny the remaining code to be ...
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Is this code efficient?
I was wondering if this was a decent way of handling this function. Please take a look.
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Is my login function secure ? how to improve it?
Using cakePHP, I would love to have your point of view about this large source code, i am not sure if its enought secure. sha1() will be removed with another ...
