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Segment trees are the foundation upon which all of competitive programming is built.

You can write an extension which evals a JS file to recreate this

Why not use double quotes for strings in all languages? It makes sense for a number of reasons. Single quotes are much more likely to be in the contents of a string than double quo…

It makes it more cumbersome to copy the URL

Actually that's also wrong, I usually see this rule applied in other languages: If the opening bracket is on the same line as content, then so is the closing bracket. By this rule,…

This video clears up the confusion IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3xtDdsNQM

I think that's the implication

Segment trees are objectively superior in all ways except implementation length

I've been told to consider it constant for all practical purposes

Treap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treap It's like a Red-Black tree in use case, but much faster to implement, which is good for competitive programming. The average case complex…

This might be interesting https://pypi.org/project/scoping/

An alternative might be for personalisation to be opt-in rather than opt-out even when signed in with an account (which shouldn't even be necessary for many services anyway)

Go enforces 1TBS over Allman style braces IIRC. I don't really care because I like 1TBS and also don't write Go but it did enstrange parts of the community.

CaryKH made something similar a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rtiz-V2zM

Instead of using upvotes from sites such as Reddit and HN, why not instead allow the users of the search engine itself upvote and downvote results? This might allow quality results…

I just use a Python or Node shell as a calculator. It usually works well enough.

This is basically exactly me, except I don't have as concrete of a feel of the actual shapes, all I know is that 9's slice off ones from other numbers, not that actual shape of the…

Priority queues aren't constant time. They're log time.

If it works, it works. Priority queues are an extremely powerful data structure if you leverage them right. I find C++'s set and map and related data structures are also very usefu…

I often feel something along the lines of this as well. I often feel like no matter how much effort and energy and passion I put into something, nobody will care. It's like screami…

Marking questions as "stupid, irrelevant, lazy etc" is SO's way of maintaining site content quality. Though they do get a bit aggressive at times, it's actually a good thing. A sit…

Note: don't use typeof x === 'object' to check whether something is a valid object, because it will return true for arrays as well. Arrays are objects, so this is expected behaviou…