This question here: Shortest possible way of printing a specific board Summary: The code requirement is to print out a grid of text. The code does in fact print the grid The way it does that, is very broken, and it is only by hacking things that it works. From a code-review perspective, it doe...

I am a a big fan of one-liners using sed awk perl and other tools. But there are things hard to do in one-liner like when you working with a CSV file and there are comma between quotes, or when you want to print a centralized field with printf. Few months ago I wrote ftable more for fun than any...

Is there a equivalent in the Ruby standard API for Java's Collections.unmodifiableList and Collections.unmodifiableMap?

I tried to write my own variant class, that is fully move-semantics enabled. WRT to implemented visitors, they don't require any policy and like to be derived from boost::static_visitor or to contain typedefed result_type. The result type of the visitor deduced by means of std::result_of and als...

I am working on a project in which I construct a url with a valid hostname (but not a blocked hostname) and then execute that URL using RestTemplate from my main application thread. I also have a single background thread in my application which parses the data from the url and extracts the block ...

As I've stated in my previous answers, the first thing you must decide is "What level of atomicity does this application require?" I don't mean simple thread-safety, which the above code provides by not throwing exceptions or behaving in bizarre ways. Here are two examples where atomicity is vio...

There's probably much that can be done here, but I'll point out some things I've noticed: Since you're not overloading the default constructor, you don't have to include it. The compiler will make a default one for you. It looks like Add() is doing too many things: the actual adding updating...