I wrote a program that goes through a webpage and returns matches of regex. I used it on my letterboxd.com account to go through all of my movies (over 900 entries) and then find genres field for each of them in order to get the number of movies I've seen in each genre (that makes 53 pages for ge...

I do some work that involves translating resources for a webpage. These are all stored in a SQL Server table that looks like this (plus a few irrelevant constraints). CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblResources]( [lResourceID] [int] IDENTITY(1000,1) NOT NULL, [lLocaleID] [int] NOT NULL, [txtRes...

I'm using a java servlet to generate HTML code to produce a printable form. I want the form to look like the paper version being used now (or as close as possible) to reduce confusion during the transition from paper to online. However, to achieve the formatting I want, I've got a LOT of code g...

I have to parse a json object that can be a string, array, array of strings and array of object. I realised that it's not good from the beginning that one object can be many types, but I can't change the code from upstream so I'll have to deal it in my code instead. I'm building a pixel library ...

I wrote this code for an answer over on SO. I suspect it's possible to clean it up a bit, particularly the base-case specialization for FactorialArray, which is repetitive and contains odd bits (for instance: why double curly braces? because clang complains about un-braced subobject initializers...

I have been assigned to developed a feature that filters a conversation. For example, I want to filter the conversation by user id then export it to something either JSON or text file. In this case, I created a class that handles the filters like this. import java.util.ArrayList; import java.uti...

#!/bin/env sh //usr/bin/env kotlinc -script "$0" $@; exit $? /* ***************************************************************************/ import java.io.BufferedReader import java.io.InputStreamReader /* ***************************************************************************/ /* *******...

I wanted to learn some regex, but learning regex is super boring so I decided to write a password validator that will validate a password with regular expressions. How it works: You enter a password that has no echo thanks to the getpass library The password is run against five different valid...

Is this the correct way to set value of textbox to zero when its null? Is there any way I can improve the calculation that I am doing below? private void TB_PAID_CASH_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TB_TOTAL_INV.Text) &&...

I'm new to python 3.5 and I am having trouble with a function. I want to check if the letters I input would be able to create the word that I input. For example, if I input the list of letters "afdoor", it would be able to create the inputed word "food" from it. This would return as true. However...

I was studying for an upcoming phone interview, and Googling programming terms which I needed to strengthen myself in. Well after I Googled "Dependency Injection", a banner appeared asking if I wanted to play a game. It then took me into a command environment, and stated a challenge, which I ch...

I have a Java class responsible for validating documents, its signature is: String validate(String workingDirectory, InputStream input) Should this method close the InputStream and clean up after itself or is that up to the caller?

Is there any way I could reduce the code yet work just as efficiently? Also, is there anything I could add to make the experience more convenient? from tkinter import * from tkinter import messagebox root = Tk() root.title("Mad Libs: Action Movie") x = 0 #para is the paragraph %s is variabl...

I've been working wrapping the Windows API's Overlapped methods in the more usable Task based approach. There isn't much information out there on doing this, so I've been flying blind apart from a few blog posts. I was hoping to get feedback on what I've come up with so far. An example method is...

I have a function that uses Windows Update Agent (WUA) API through COM using the win32com.client module, part of pywin32 package for retrieving the installed and the available (not yet installed) Windows Updates. For each update, name, url of the relative Microsoft documentation and category is d...

Poker is 52 cards - 4 suite and 13 rank Ace counts as both low and high Order of hands Straight-Flush all same suite and in order Quad four of same rank Boat three of one rank and two of another rank Straight e.g. 56789 Two pair One pair High card The code below gives the correct answers to ...

I wrote this for an A* implementation: (pqueue.c) #include "pqueue.h" #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> struct pqueue* new_pqueue(size_t capacity, int mt) { struct pqueue* pqueue = malloc(sizeof(struct pqueue)); pqueue->...

Using the wine quality dataset, i'm attempting to perform a simple KNN classification (w/ a scaler, and the classifier in a pipeline). I just wanted to make sure i was implementing all this correctly. For me, it became a little less straightforward using the cross_val_scores inside the pipeli...

Problem description (long version): My mother has a hobby of buying and reselling books via online trading sites. After a price is agreed on, the books have to be put into an envelope for mailing. On this envelope, stamps have to be applied to pay for postage (mailing fee). My mother buys stamps...