The Road to Performance Is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs Kirk Pepperdine MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, performance tuning a system requires you to alter code. When we need to alter code, every chunk that is overly complex or highly coupled is a dirty
Scrolling Through Time Kim MacCormack Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. TWElvE yEARS Ago, my team was hired to develop a web application as a subcontractor for a graphic design firm. We were to have no direct contact with the customer. All of the
You have devised a new encryption technique which encodes a message by inserting between its charac- ters randomly generated strings in a clever way. Because of pending patent issues we will not discuss in detail how the strings are
Problem E All in All Input: standard input Output: standard output Time Limit: 2 seconds Memory Limit: 32 MB You have devised a new encryption technique which encodes a message by inserting between its characters
Start from Yes Alex Miller RECENTLY, I WAS AT A GROCERY STORE, searching high and low for “edam- ame” (which I only vaguely knew was some kind of a vegetable). I wasn’t sure whether this was something I’d find in the vegetable section, the