The Archive of Interesting Code • Hacker News Board

Re: The Archive of Interesting Code

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Post by optiminimalist » Mon, May 13, 2013, 11:15 AM UTC

Fantastic list. A great way to supplement the theory from CLRS, etc.

Re: The Archive of Interesting Code

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Post by dsuth » Mon, May 13, 2013, 11:35 AM UTC

bigfoot wrote: post #20

Under what license may I reuse those snippets -- or are they too short to provoke legal issues anyways?

From the page:

"If you're interested in using any of this code in your applications, feel free to do so! You don't need to cite me or this website as a source, though I would appreciate it if you did. However, please don't plagiarize the code here by claiming authorship - that would just be dishonest. I also caution you that while I'm fairly confident that the code on this site is correct, I haven't mercilessly tested every line, and so there may be a lurking bug or two here."

Re: The Archive of Interesting Code

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Post by stiff » Mon, May 13, 2013, 2:06 PM UTC

blablabla123 wrote: post #19

stiff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, what a sad place has HN become that this kind of comment is getting upvoted. There are tons of interesting stuff in there, very exhaustively commented, and you say " some are interesting, lots are mundane" quoting a single goddamn example. Wouldn't linking the interesting ones be, like, more interesting? What a fucking weak attitude!

Have you looked at the link he provided? IMHO it doesn't fit at all with the other things. You can implement In-Place Mergesort or one of its variants by studying Wikipedia. Or you can just look up a nice implementation from the OPs site and port it to your favorite language. That said, this argmin/argmax thing does absolutely not fit.

It's just ONE example, and if it's really the most interesting thing HN has to say on this (it was the top comment when I responded) then it's truly a sad state of affairs. Those btw are as much tutorials as they are "nice implementations", there are lots of things pointed out in the comments that you won't easily find on Wikipedia.