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Return results from goroutines

I have two goroutines that each need to return their results to the main function. These results are of different types. I have implemented a solution that uses a structure that holds these results. ...
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Check disk space against a threshold

The below script is one I made to check the disk space on mounted partitions under Debian Wheezy. I tried adding a -d switch to force printing out the used data, ...
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Project Euler #1 - JavaScript

I'm new to JavaScript, and decided to learn the language by running through as many of the Project Euler problems as I have time to do. I just finished the first one, and am looking for some feedback, ...
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Evaluating Fibonacci-sequence-based recurrence relation (SPOJ Flibonakki)

I have a function fib2 which returning two values as Tuple but I want to print the product of tuples returned by function fib2. I am new to Haskell so please ...
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Creates an Excel inventory from Cisco Show Version text files

This has been written for network engineers to be able to create an Excel inventory of switch/router device info from a folder of 'Show version' .txt files. I've put it here to help me learn about ...
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Fast power in Go

I just started learning Go. To start playing with it, I've implemented the fast power algorithm: Any suggestions or criticisms regarding the coding style? ...
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Simple Java Game including Thread

I am a Java beginner and have made a simple Compare Game. It has done well but I am not sure about my solution, especially about my thread. Can you give some advice on making it better? ...
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FileScrambler, a command-line file encryption tool

I decided to try my hand at making an encryption utility, which I lovingly call "FileScrambler". FileScrambler allows the user to encrypt a file (a master-password list, personal diary, or whatever) ...
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Re-implementation of Caolan McMahon's parallel and map functions

I have wrote my first reasonably complete piece of ClojureScript code and would like feedback. It is basically a re-implementation of Caolan McMahon's parallel and map functions from async in ...
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Brute force algorithm for printing all possible alphanumeric combinations

I'm still very much a beginner, so I don't really know much about best practices or the speed of any particular C functions. You'll notice that I included a "cs50" library. This is from a MOOC I'm ...
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Using reduce twice in a row for Run Length Encoding

First of all, I'm new to Lisp (I currently use CLISP and SBCL). There probably are huge mistakes in this code so any guidelines are welcome :) I'm very confused about how to do this. It's just about ...
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Beginner stopwatch app

I'm learning Swift and would appreciate any code review suggestions (the more nit-picky, the better). In particular, I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to format the time in the ...
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Movie selection app

I'm new to Angular and I would like some advice on how I can improve my code. The main things that I want to focus on are decoupling and code correctness. HTML: ...
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Challenge: Determining the existence of string Intersections

Problem: Given 2 strings, consider all the substrings within them of length len. Len will be 1 or more. Returns true if there are any such substrings which appear in both strings. Compute this in ...
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Adding HTML DOM template

I'm new to JS and jQuery. I wrote this function which just does what I want, but it seems very unreadable, and because of my experience, I don't know a better way to handle it. Could you please give ...
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Challenge: Finding the length of the largest run

Note: A run is a series of adjacent chars that are the same. I just want to answer a few questions: Is this readable? Does it need commenting or is it self-descriptive enough? Are there any ...
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Clone GitHub repository using Python

I want to backup my GitHub repositories since there is news about blocking GitHub in India. I wrote Python code to automate this and would like for it to be reviewed. ...
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Implementation of a quicksort function

I am an absolute beginner to programming and am learning it using C. I have just learned function pointers and tried to implement a quicksort function using function pointers to determine the nature ...
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Newsfeed app for allowing custom Reddit feeds

I'm currently working on a newsfeed app (see it live here or its files on GitHub) that lets a user create a custom Reddit feed. The user adds the subreddits they'd like to view, and then can view them ...
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Countdown program in x86 NASM

I am fairly new to Assembly language programming and, for practice, I gave myself a problem: count down from 10 and right after 1, say "Blast off!". ...
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Polymorphic animals speak their name and make a noise

I'm new to GNU Smalltalk. I'd like to port a script I've written in Ruby, Scala, CoffeeScript, and several others. It's the one I use to try to learn the classic OOP concepts of abstract classes, ...
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Sum of numbers separated with comma

I am very new to HTML and I've decided to attempt to put what I know into an HTML page that allows you to enter any amount of numbers, separated by commas, and would display the sum of all the numbers ...
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Programming MySQLi prepared statements

I'm programming code with MySQLi prepared statements. I'm a beginner and just want to ask to experts if my code is correct. ...
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Solution to the CodingBat Array-3 [fix34]

I was studying for arrays from coding-bat and encountered this: The question is: (fix34) Return an array that contains exactly the same numbers as the given array, but rearranged so that every ...
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In-place quicksort algorithm in Python 2

I have tried to implement an in-place quicksort Algorithm in Python 2. Please suggest how I can Make the code more efficient Increase readability Improve writing style Make it more Pythonic ...
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Exception logger for servlets and JSPs

I hate using unnecessary catch blocks and I like to see my code look beautiful. In most of the cases in my project, which is a web application, I can't declare many ...
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A prime number sieve using recursion

Out of curiosity, I built a recursive Sieve of Eratosthenes in Python and I was wondering how it could be improved for efficiency and how it can improved to be aligned with python best practices. ...
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String 'expanding' code challenge - reinserting repeating characters

The challenge: Given a String, for each digit in that original string, replace that digit with that many occurrences of the character following it. So a3tx2z yields ...
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Autoclicker Tkinter Program

I made my first program that I might actually use and I was wondering if anyone had some tips on how I could improve it. My code is an auto-clicker that uses Python3 ctypes for the clicking and ...
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Adding a compose key to Windows

I made a piece of software that basically adds the functionality of a compose key to Windows, after switching from one keyboard layout to another (for programming reasons), and being unable to find a ...
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isPalindrome in C++ using pointers [closed]

I am just beginning to learn C++. I have experience with other languages, mainly C# and Java, so pointers are repetitively new to me. Below I have implemented a function which checks if the given ...
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Writing FizzBuzz like this makes me feel like a small child

For the sake of full disclosure, this was written with bananas, not apples. The doctor may not be kept away. With AppleScript highlighting: For Copy&Pasting: ...
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Four-function and exponentiation console calculator

This code works as it is supposed to: ...
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Speed up Sudoku Solver

I made this Sudoku solver using depth first search, it takes less than 0.1 second to solve any simple solution(no guessing), but if the solution requires guessing (thus using the DFS) its time grows ...
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Condensing multiple conditionals into function

I feel like I'm repeating a ton of code here and there's got to be a better way to do this but am just completely spacing right now. I basically have an else if ...
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Simple Peg game

I'm new to coding and this code pretty much goes to the extent of my current knowledge I'm looking for ways to improve this code. This code compiles and runs fine in Visual Studio 2013. I'm also using ...
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Prime Number Sequence generator

I have just started using Python, and I am attempting to make a prime number sequence generator, where it will print the a specified amount prime numbers in terminal. I have other versions of this ...
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Generating all permutations of a list [closed]

I'm looking for feedback on the following functions to generate permutations of a list. I'm new to programming and did this as an exercise after taking an on line algorithms course. I think it is ...
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Copies inventory data from multiple excel worksheets to individual excel delivery notes

I am new to Python and am looking for any feedback/criticism on scripts I have written for work. This script works as I intended, creating multiple .xls files from a workbook with multiple ...
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A File Upload Handeler (PHP,OO)

Sorry, I am a OO beginner. Don't really get a big picture like 'how to think in OO'. I start with a bunch of function, make the code work, then I spent a day to rewrite it in OO way ---- as much as I ...
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Concisely adding values in a loop to a column

In my data frame I assign values to the column Register by checking another column (Source) for specific values. Based on those values, the output in Register changes. I am relatively new to R, but I ...
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Function caller (to multiple receivers) interface

This class is designed to call a similar function of multiple objects of multiple classes using a single interface (it is not for calling functions that return a value). A potential usage will be ...
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C++ game with splash screen and menus

As of now this game only consists of: Splash Screen MainMenu SubMenus Did I apply bad practices, or did I do something well? Is there a better way to do it? ...
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Beginning Blackjack program

I am fairly new to this, so please tell me whether this is a good way to write code or if I'm missing anything. ...
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Calculating a specific entry in a Pascal’s triangle recursively

Our task was to calculate the entry of a Pascal’s triangle with a given row and column recursively. The triangle was specified in a way that the tip of the triangle is ...
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Becoming the greatest tower builder

I am trying to learn how to write proper code in python, and stumbled upon the following problem. Bob is given a set of building blocks b, and a number ...
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Makefile that places object files into an alternate directory (bin/)

I'm trying to learn how to use makefiles, and this is my attempt at making a makefile that compiles source files in a source directory (src/) into object files that are created in a bin directory. ...
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What's the best approach to achieve two-way communication with TIdTCPServer and TIdTCPClient?

I'm a newbie in Delphi and I'm trying to create a client/server application using INDY. I want to have a server that is capable not only of receiving messages and streaming, but also sending data to ...
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Display multiple subtype objects in one page

I have a base class with 3 sub ones: Item <-- Book, MusicCD, Software They have some common and different properties but in the view I want to get a mixed list of them and show in one table: ...
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Fascinating, ma'am

Finding a famous question with high score I haven't voted on yet was proving to be a bit difficult for me. So I came up with this simple SEDE query to find good candidates: ...