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5,271 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Pacman implemented in OOP VBA
What?, Why?
I have been inspired by several other posts on the topic of OOP implementations in VBA to try and create a Pacman clone. I think this task is not all that hard in most languages; but, I ...
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Definitional Returns. Solved. Mostly
I have made the bold claim that a longstanding problem in Rebol is "now solved"...that of "definitional returns".
But of course, such claims need some peer review, and there's always some new trick ...
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Multiplying big numbers using Karatsuba's method
The Karatsuba algorithm, first published in 1962, aims to speed up the multiplication of big numbers by reducing the number of 'single-digit-multiplications' involved.
Because of its complexity (...
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Mucheck - a mutation analysis tool for Haskell programs
We have been working on a mutation analysis tool for Haskell tests called MuCheck. It accepts any Haskell source file, and a function name to mutate, applies a defined set of mutation operators on it, ...
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How to stream data directly from the database through a 3 tier architecture
The problem: generating a CSV file that is too large be stored in memory in a 3 tier architecture, without the complexity of saving the file to storage.
The solution: I've managed to write something ...
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Progress Bar for Excel
Any future updates can be found at Excel-VBA-ProgressBar
What I've been using so far
For the last 6 years I've been using a progress form which I wrote in VBA using just Windows API calls. The code (...
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Timeoutable computations module
Defines a simple module for timeoutable computations, with the ability to return
arbitrary intermediary results on timeout or the final value otherwise. It also
allows default return values.
The ...
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Modularizing a Game Scene in Sprite Kit
I am trying to modularize the main SKScene of my strategy game. I am not sure that my approach is correct so I would love to get a review of the following code.
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Shepard Tone stream generation in Clojure
This is my work to generate an infinite Shepard Tone. It is written in Clojure and works by generating repeating streams of incrementing frequencies, converting those to values on a sine wave and then ...
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PowerShell module for formatting objects using Razor
I managed to get something up and running, but I've no idea whether there are better ways to do this. I've spent all morning trying to figure out the best way to use parameters (allowing objects from ...
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Autotools detect C++ language standard support
I have been updating my build tools to optionally use autotools (autoconfig/automake/libtool etc.).
As part of this change I have written a couple of M4 macros. This not being something I have done ...
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Let's register that Django user
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So, I've been using Django for a while now and thought it would be nice to start a simple application. In an ideal World, each app must have a way of letting its users register and that's ...
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Realtime concurrent Haskell MIDI buffer
Problem Background
MIDI is a serial representation of control signals to a sound generator. Typically, a noteOn message initiates the attack phase of a sound at a given pitch. The note will ...
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Encoding the problem domain of products and prices into the typesystem in F#
I'm trying to design a model for purchasing amounts of products in F#, following the ideas for designing for correctness (source). The idea is to use the type system to capture the different legal ...
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Download files in parallel
This module has a ensure_downloaded function which takes a slice of Urls. It downloads all of the urls to a local downloads ...
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