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jackson_1

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    Anyone care to share neat C tricks?

    Here's a C99 trick I learned recently, known as compound literals. Say you have a function that takes a struct as a parameter: typedef struct {int x; int y;} Point; void plot(Point…

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    How essential is Maths?

    I'm in my final year of studying computer science/programming in university. I'm pretty good at programming, infact I'm one of the top in my class. However, I struggle with my math…

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    Why does everyone here seem to dislike C++?

    So I'm a 3rd year electrical engineering student at university and so far we've been taught how to code in ones and zeros, assembly, C and C++. Out of all of these I like C++ the b…

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    The indirect costs of switching to HTTPS (like lost advertisement revenue) make it a inviable solution This doesn't entirely make sense. I'm sure it's possible to serve adverts on …

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    In the most compact way possible: TensorFlow is like Numpy, only it is capable of working symbolically and can work more easily with your GPU in a highly parallel manner. For those…

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    This is a great list, I've tried to order them into what I think would be easiest to hardest, so you can work through all of them whilst improving your skills! If you think the lis…

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    They're just baiting him into returning to the US. You can be assured he will be shipped off to a supermax (probably for life) the moment he steps foot in the country. It's one law…