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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 ...

assembly interpreter brainfuck

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 17 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 ...

python programming-challenge python-2.7

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

Generating double linear sequence in Haskell

Need some comments on making the below code more effective. I'm pretty new to Haskell. The sequence in generateSeq is generated by the rule that if x is in the sequence then x*2+1 and x*3+1 are also ...

beginner haskell

asked by rickythefox 6 votes answered by Zeta 1 vote

Huffman compressor in Java

I have this Java program that can en-/decode files, both text and binary. What comes to critique I want to hear anything regarding these points: Performance, Modularity, Coding conventions, Naming ...

java console compression

asked by coderodde 6 votes answered by JS1 4 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Determining triangle type from three integer inputs

The logic is simple, but I was wondering if anyone could help with rewriting the conditional logic. Also, the only error conditions I can think of are the sides should not be equal to or less than ...

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asked by Phoenix 7 votes answered by codesparkle 5 votes

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 ...

c# entity-framework asp.net-mvc-4

asked by Narayana 14 votes answered by Max 13 votes

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Vanilla JavaScript ToDo List implementation

Just started learning JavaScript and I have created a basic TODO list following MVC concepts to apply what I have learnt so far. This is probably overkill for a simple todo app, but the objective is ...

javascript html mvc to-do-list

asked by fsociety 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

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