... effect at all on the total. If the small values come first, they will at least sum to something, although even then I have 2^30 of them, whereas after 2^25 or so I'm back in the situation where each one individually isn't affecting the total any more. So I'm still going to need more tricks. That'...

...o becomes unavailable in the future, the answer becomes useless. Please at least summarize the relevant points of your blog post and add them to this answer. – user456814 Mar 6 '14 at 23:41 ...

...in VBScript, which didn't support user-defined classes (for a long time at least). In a language with user-defined types you would solve the same problem by creating a HtmlEncodedString-type and then let the Write method accept only that. In a statically typed language, the compiler will catch any e...

...n von Neumann (1951) “Anyone who has not seen the above quotation in at least 100 places is probably not very old.” - D. V. Pryor (1993) “Random number generators should not be chosen at random.” - Donald Knuth (1986) – Happy Green Kid Naps Jan 25 '13...

... It turns out that there's something of a spec for this, at least for North America, called the NANP. You need to specify exactly what you want. What are legal delimiters? Spaces, dashes, and periods? No delimiter allowed? Can one mix delimiters (e.g., +0.111-222.3333)? How are exte...

...grows it will get harder to the point of being virtually impossible (or at least a complete waste of time). If you don't rely on global variables, you can pass state around between different functions as needed. That way you stand a much better chance of understanding what each function does, as y...

... gcc should generally be invoked with at least -Wall, which does warn for this program. clang does produce good warnings/errors, though. – caf Nov 21 '11 at 0:10

...ch makes traversing an array much faster than traversing a linked list, at least if the linked list has become somewhat fragmented in memory. kjellkod.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/… – RenniePet Dec 18 '14 at 22:40 ...

...he worst part of the .NET framework. IsReadOnly violates the principle of least surprise. A class, such as Array, which never allows adding, inserting or removing items should not implement an interface with Add, Insert and Remove methods. (see also https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/qu...

... @marcog - your notation is at least confusing and at most wrong. n is the keystrokes you're allowed to use. You have to compute how many As you can type with n keystrokes. So 7 => 7 makes no sense. – IVlad Jan 5 '...