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Top new questions this week:

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I'm working on a small program to perform various tasks on text content, primarily at the word level. I wrote these methods as ways to help prepare the raw text file into something more malleable, ...

java strings array regex io

asked by Phrancis 19 votes answered by 200_success 14 votes

Oh my goodness: How many selfies have I taken?

The title is a joke on how some people take a lot of selfies pictures Recently, in The 2nd Monitor, there was a brief discussion on selfie answers, starting with this post. At one point, a user said ...

sql stackexchange

asked by SirPython 17 votes answered by Phrancis 14 votes

Floating point equality in "Numbers.java"

Floating point inaccuracies are really annoying. I understood that in its true sense while developing the next version of Point (this time I'm actually foolproofing my code). Before I upload it for ...

java library floating-point

asked by ambigram_maker 15 votes answered by Tom Leek 17 votes

Commodore-FizzBuzz

I felt nostalgic recently, and decided to install a Commodore-64 emulator. C-64 BASIC 2.0 is the first language I ever programmed in... some 20 years ago (yes, C-64 was already well beyond deprecated ...

fizzbuzz basic

asked by Mat's Mug 15 votes answered by Heslacher 10 votes

AngularJS - REST + Authentication service

I have a REST web service that uses OAuth 2 for authenticating and authorizing requests. I have an endpoint, that when receiving the correct credentials, responds with an access token that will be ...

javascript angular.js

asked by Mati Cicero 13 votes answered by A Red Herring 13 votes

Full C++ Snake game

I managed to finish my approach on the legendary Snake game. You move around with the WASD keys. I would like to hear your opinion and maybe ideas on how I can improve frame rate because now it sort ...

c++ game console windows

asked by TheTask1337 13 votes answered by Ethan Bierlein 10 votes

Project Euler #1: Multiples of 3 and 5

Challenge Description: If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples ...

python programming-challenge python-2.7

asked by Song Kyungwoo 12 votes answered by Heslacher 10 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Basic Java dice game

public class diceGame { public static void main(String[] args) { int dice1; int dice2; int count = 0; int theSum = 0; int lowest = Integer.MAX_VALUE; ...

java beginner random simulation dice

asked by user3026468 14 votes answered by 200_success 21 votes

Depth First Search & Breadth First Search implementation

I've implemented DFS and BFS implementations. I want to check if the code is readable, contains any issues, and can be improved. GraphImplementation package graphs; import java.util.*; import ...

java data-structures graph breadth-first-search depth-first-search

asked by fscore 6 votes answered by 200_success 19 votes

Can you answer these?

Aggregating data from multiple worksheets into a consistent format

First off, this is the 3rd (and probably last) review of the project in question. You can find the previous question here. The Macro accesses a workbook containing 8 worksheets each with similarly ...

vba excel

asked by Zak 4 votes

Web scraping from the Google Play store

I am using this R function to web scrape data from the google play store. Is there a way to increase its efficiency using R? This code takes about 4 seconds for 14 urls with my machine/internet ...

performance r web-scraping

asked by CFM 3 votes

Ruby-like squish in Haskell

squish is an onomatopoeic string function provided by Ruby on Rails that works on strings. Given a string, squish condenses all the consecutive spaces into one.1 (Imagine that you take a string at ...

beginner strings haskell

asked by Caridorc 2 votes