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When "How To Ask" is too subtle

This is the first JavaScript code I've ever written, alert("hello, world!"); aside. This site is closing quite a lot of questions because people won't read the rulebook or pay attention to the ...

javascript beginner

asked by Mat's Mug 23 votes answered by 200_success 23 votes

Top users under age 30, sorted by age, with rank

In the pursuit of SQL enlightenment, I wrote a quick SEDE query to display Rep, Age and Overall Rank. Sorted by Age, then Rank (Which is generated by Rep). SELECT TOP 150 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ...

sql t-sql stackexchange

asked by Quill 17 votes answered by Vogel612 13 votes

"How can I make this SEDE query better?" (bad title finder)

It was suggested on Meta for July 2015 Community Challenge to make a bot that can find questions with bad titles. I wrote this query to help others find examples to help them make write their code. ...

beginner sql t-sql stackexchange

asked by Phrancis 16 votes answered by rolfl 12 votes

"The python that ate a calculator"

In a YouTube video I watched, the speaker said it is important to know how to calculate between numbers of different bases; i.e. two, ten, and sixteen. I was then inspired to write a small C program ...

c unit-testing python-2.7 calculator

asked by Motoko Kusanagi 15 votes answered by Veedrac 15 votes

To-do list in jQuery

I'm making a simple to-do list with jQuery. This is my first step in JavaScript and jQuery. How can I improve my code? User enter tasks in input field, submit by pressing 'Enter'. On double-click, he ...

javascript jquery html css to-do-list

asked by Vasyl Pylypiv 13 votes answered by Greg Burghardt 11 votes

Basic Tic-Tac-Toe

I am starting a software engineering degree soon and have been practicing the last couple months. I have posted some code I wrote for a basic Tic Tac Toe game below (C++). I have read the worst thing ...

c++ beginner tic-tac-toe

asked by DeadPixel 11 votes answered by Edward 13 votes

Load SSH key remotely

I often create new accounts or virtual machines, and then have to load my SSH public key/signature in to the authorized keys on that account. That process can be tedious, so I created this script that ...

bash ssh

asked by rolfl 11 votes answered by janos 7 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Count number of each char in a String

I know there is a simpler way of doing this, but I just really can't think of it right now. Can you please help me out? String sample = "hello world"; char arraysample[] = sample.toCharArray(); int ...

java strings

asked by statius 14 votes answered by Marco Acierno 22 votes

A simple Dice Roll game

This is the code for a simple dice roll. Any opinions for this are welcome and any suggestions to improve it would be appreciated. Is there a more efficient algorithm to generate random numbers in ...

c++ beginner game random dice

asked by Arpit Agrawal 8 votes answered by Loki Astari 11 votes

Can you answer these?

Realtime chat service

I am new to Node.js and Socket.io. I implemented a realtime chat service that has a chatroom feature. When the actual product is launched, there will be at least 200 concurrent users with 50 groups of ...

javascript node.js socket mongodb chat

asked by Ken Liao 2 votes

Big Integers and parallel execution with OpenMP

This is part of an implementation of Rabin-Williams signatures as described by Bernstein in Section 6 of "RSA signatures and Rabin–Williams signatures: the state of the art" using Tweaked Roots. The ...

c++ integer openmp crypto++

asked by jww 2 votes

External API calls from a C#.NET client

I have a simple c# mvc client that calls an external api..here is my attempt public class ProductController : Controller { private readonly IProductService _productService; public ...

c# .net api http rest

asked by nesh_s 4 votes