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Brainfuck Interpreter written in x86 Assembly

Story time: A week ago I found a question about optimizing Assembly code, then I remembered how awesome Brainfuck was, and the match was made very quickly. I decided to write a Brainfuck Interpreter ...

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asked by skiwi 45 votes answered by Roland Illig 31 votes

Where are my downvotes?

I've been thinking my posts aren't that great, and so I've been wanting to improve them. One sure fire way to do this is to look at all of my downvoted posts. Not knowing if Stack Exchange allows you ...

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asked by Peilonrayz 16 votes answered by dnoeth 16 votes

Rounding a number up to the nearest multiple of a power of 2

I'm doing some programming challenges over at CodeEval and came across a pretty straight forward simple one: Given numbers x and n, where n is a power of 2, print out the smallest multiple of n ...

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asked by papasmurf 10 votes answered by mkrieger1 10 votes

StackList<T> implementation

I needed a structure that works really similar to the predefined Stack<T> but with a few extra functionalities. Examples include getting the index of value in the collection and being able to ...

c# stack collections iterator

asked by denis 9 votes answered by t3chb0t 11 votes

Who are these lurkers?

Last night in The 2nd Monitor there was a discussion about postless users - I wanted to see how many there are, whether they're one-timers that showed up once, registered and never came back, and ...

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asked by Mat's Mug 7 votes answered by 200_success 3 votes

CultureInfo with fallback routing to another language

Our company needs a localization/translation behavior which allows incomplete (ResX) resources. If a String isn't available in italian fall back to the next roman language, like french fall back to ...

c# .net localization

asked by Kelon 6 votes

Get malware security feeds, and output to file

The idea is that local security/SIEM solutions want to populate their database with information gathered from different security feeds. This is done through importing and monitoring .txt files (for ...

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asked by Marius 6 votes answered by ferada 2 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Update only modified fields in Entity Framework

I'm working on a website on ASP.NET MVC4 and EF5. I want to ensure that only modified values are updated in the database. I'm using a unit of work pattern and repositories for data work. Here's the ...

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asked by Narayana 14 votes answered by Max 13 votes

Swing calculator - first GUI program

I've recently made a calculator using Java and Swing. I'm okay with the results but I'm curious what are the major flaws I've made (assuming there are, because it is my first program making GUI). I ...

java swing calculator

asked by Karkoon 14 votes answered by Simon Forsberg 11 votes

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D3.js multi-line graph

Here is my JS code which uses the D3.js library (mostly snipped from other examples). I want to graph the acceleration of a point in 3D-space which changes with respect to time. The X-axis of the ...

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asked by krismath 3 votes

Java REST-assured acceptance tests

I've have experience in unit testing but I'm fairly new to acceptance testing and REST-assured. I would like to get some feedback on my style. This is not a complete list of all my test but a few that ...

java unit-testing rest

asked by Jakob 3 votes

Scrape 4chan for alive images

I'm trying to learn Clojure recently and I thought writing a simple web app would be a good way to dive in. This function gets the list of alive threads from the API and reduces, filters and maps ...

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asked by user114084 3 votes