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Find min of 3 numbers hardcoded

public static int min(int a, int b, int c) { int result = 0 ; if( a < b && a < c && b < c) result = a ; else if( a < b && a < c && b > c) …

java conditions

asked by ERJAN 18 votes answered by Simon André Forsberg 40 votes

Average time to first answer

Just trying out my T-SQL foo. Wrote a script to get the average time (in seconds) to first answer for a specified language. -- Could not get this so that the user entered -- the language in a box at …

sql datetime t-sql stackexchange

asked by Loki Astari 18 votes answered by rolfl 14 votes

Console application for providing detailed error messages

I'm writing a console application where I need to provide detailed error messages in case anything goes wrong. As a result of this, I find myself splitting up my code into many pieces and making sure …

c# console error-handling

asked by soren.qvist 13 votes answered by Pimgd 11 votes

Using C# properties for simple operations, where should I draw the line?

Should I be putting Linq statements inside of an objects properties? Is that a best practice or is that a no no? Also if that is ok, where do I draw the line with this? I assume db access is …

c# linq properties

asked by DeadlyChambers 12 votes answered by Olorin71 13 votes

Efficiency of this constantly running time processor for an HTML5 video control bar

I built a custom HTML5 video control bar, and for each second, it updates two readings: Time Elapsed Time Remaining in hh:mm:ss notation, like so: Because of how often this function runs, I …

javascript optimization

asked by jt0dd 12 votes answered by Dagg 13 votes

Is this a fast implementation of reversing a string?

I thought of this algorithm today. It seems fast, but how can I know? #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <assert.h> /* * Reverse a string * …

performance algorithm c strings

asked by true 11 votes answered by Corbin 22 votes

Generating 1000 random numbers

I have got the following C code and I feel it is crazy stupid and there must be a better way to do this, but just can't think of one and have yet to learn algorithms. /*generates 1000 random numbers, …

optimization c random

asked by user50585 11 votes answered by 200_success 14 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Generating Even Random Numbers

I have this class which is used as part of a game. It needs to generate Random Even values, which is done by generating random numbers until the result is even. Is there a better way to do this? …

java random static

asked by leonideveloper 21 votes answered by 200_success 38 votes

Game of Life in Java

I wrote John Conway's Game of Life in Java: class GameOfLife { static int countSurrounding(int[][] board, int a, int b) { int count = 0; int[][] surrounding = {{a - 1, b - 1}, …

java game-of-life

asked by LazySloth13 4 votes answered by amon 6 votes

Can you answer these?

Encrypt texts, with saved password using pycrypto

I have the code bellow, which is supposed to be used inside a larger program. Please see notes about the requirements below the code. from __future__ import print_function from Crypto.Cipher import …

python python3 python-2.7 cryptography

asked by Oz123 1 vote

Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance between inside and outside contour code

I am trying implement the distance measurement between two distributions. The detail is described in here and input image . Let short summarize the idea of the paper: The input image is divided …

image matlab

asked by user8264 1 vote

iMacros bot for performing refreshes

I'm trying to simplify this code. It seems everything runs as it should; however, when in the refresh loop from iMacro, it seems a little inefficient and can take up to 7 seconds to fully execute (it …

javascript performance

asked by user3912043 1 vote