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Solving Cyclic Dependencies Is Hard

Posted on November 14, 2007 by jaux

I am a C/C++ beginner but I’d been already taught that dependency cycles are generally evil since it’s very hard to solve. I haven’t realized how hard the problem is before, because all the works I’ve done are “one file” … Continue reading →

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Peter’s Comment on Concurrency

Posted on October 17, 2007 by jaux

“Concurrent program in a single processor computer will only make it slower than its sequential counterpart, but we are looking into the future, so let’s write concurrent programs.” – Peter A. Buhr

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Autoboxing Makes Java Be 99% Object-Oriented

Posted on October 10, 2007 by jaux

I remember that back to the early age when I was first beginning to learn the Java programming language, there was a famous quote (in China): Java is a 95% object-oriented programming language.. Why was it? Because Java has primitive … Continue reading →

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Circular Linked List Problem

Posted on October 7, 2007 by jaux

How to determine a linked list has a cycle without marking any nodes? This is a classical interview question and one of my friend brought it to me. When I came across the question, I thought that we might count … Continue reading →

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Weird Hex Output

Posted on October 4, 2007 by jaux

In C++, to output and integer in hex, I’d been taught to do this: cout << hex << an_integer; And if I want to show “0x” before the value, I need to do the following: cout.setf(ios::showbase); cout << hex << … Continue reading →

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