... Choosing a random pivot minimizes the chance that you will encounter worst-case O(n2) performance (always choosing first or last would cause worst-case performance for nearly-sorted or nearly-reverse-sorted data). Choosing the middle el...

...e is very much like a vector: like vector, it is a sequence that supports random access to elements, constant time insertion and removal of elements at the end of the sequence, and linear time insertion and removal of elements in the middle. The main way in which deque differs from vector is that de...

... have envisioned. Git’s history is based on a DAG of commits. Branches (and “refs” in general) are just transient labels that point to specific commits in the continually growing commit DAG. As such, the relationship between branches can vary over time, but the relationship between commits do...

I'm trying to learn SQL and am having a hard time understanding EXISTS statements. I came across this quote about "exists" and don't understand something: ...

I was looking at STL containers and trying to figure what they really are (i.e. the data structure used), and the deque stopped me: I thought at first that it was a double linked list, which would allow insertion and deletion from both ends in constant time, but I am troubled by the promise made ...

... How about Android Studio? – user2742371 Mar 1 '14 at 23:49 ...

... Pippenger [1996], when comparing a Lisp system that is purely functional (and has strict evaluation semantics, not lazy) to one that can mutate data, an algorithm written for the impure Lisp that runs in O(n) can be translated to an algorithm in the pure Lisp that runs in O(n log n) time (based on ...

...st is defined simply by '(1 2 3 4 5) . Python's lists, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] , and tuples, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) , are not, in fact, linked lists, and linked lists have some nice properties such as constant-time concatenation, and being able to reference separate parts of them. Make them immutable and they a...

...t 8 elements. Insert one (cost: 1). Insert two -- double, copy one element and insert two (cost: 2). Insert three -- double, copy two elements, insert three (cost: 3). Insert four (cost: 1). Insert five -- double, copy four elements, insert five (cost: 5). Insert six, seven and eight (cost: 3). Tota...

... a cryptographic hashing algorithm; only if you have the exact same secret and the original data can you recreate this value, letting Flask detect if anything has been altered without permission. Since the secret is never included with data Flask sends to the client, a client cannot tamper with sess...