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 7 months, 3 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 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The best language for writing "Hello World!"
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in C, Programming, autotools 2 years, 1 month ago
Some time ago I stumbled upon this stupid meme attempt:
Faster Decimal Number I/O In C
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in Programming 6 years ago
Autocomplete over Associations in Rails 4
Posted by: Flavio de Sousa in Programming, Ruby on Rails 6 years, 1 month ago
When creating a simple web application for a friend I found out the Formtastic (later Simple Form) solution for a belongs_to: :customer associaton, a <SELECT> was not the best. It simply loaded all customer names and ids into the HTML (more than 15 thousand!). Among the solutions I thought an Autocomplete field to be the best.
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