Today I was playing (never competing, please!) on a CodeChef programming contest and was dismayed when comparing my timings with some other competitors. Theirs were way shorter and I saw no way to improve my O(N) solution because I HAD to read an array of values. My processing was taking place while reading the data, using no loops only simple calculations.
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Reinventing UNIX?
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in Best practices, Programming, UNIX 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Somebody who deleted himself posted this comment about another Microservices craze critique. I reproduced it below for the sake of hoarding:
The dangers of the 'const' qualifier
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in C, Optimization, Programming 4 months ago
The best language for writing "Hello World!"
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in C, Programming, autotools 1 year, 8 months ago
Some time ago I stumbled upon this stupid meme attempt:
Playing with HTML5 Canvas (at last!)
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa 3 years ago
2016 is almost over and NOW I touched HTML5 Canvas!
Faster Decimal Number I/O In C
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in Programming 5 years, 7 months ago
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