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Activity for Peter Taylorâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #278751 |
@President, the sieve of Eratosthenes is faster for calculating all the primes from 2 up to N for reasonably sized N, but if you just want the first prime after 2^50 then Atkin-Bernstein should be faster. `LRUCache` is only a performance tweak: for simply running the code, it would suffice to comment... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278265 |
+1 but I'm wary of the point about best practices. Real praxis is rarely about optimising one factor at the cost of all else: it's about finding a compromise which isn't unnecessarily slow *or* unnecessarily hard to read *or* non-portable without documented reasoning, etc. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278061 |
I had the same thought as aCVn. The question seems to be about using human-readable class names vs cargo-cult application of atomic styling. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277896 |
@EJP, regular expression != regex. Regex languages vary in power from Chomsky level 1 to 4. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277885 |
Not an answer because I don't have a test environment to see whether it works, but have you tried (a) `javax.xml.accessExternalSchema = http` in `jaxp.properties`; (b) searching all files for other references to `javax.xml.accessExternalSchema` which might have priority; (c) logging `System.getProper... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277263 |
Speaking as someone who has a *lot* of experience on codegolf.SE: writing a good spec for a challenge is *hard*. There's a reason that PPCG has a sandbox in meta and strongly encourages everyone to use it. And while there's obviously "real world" professional value in learning how to write a watertig... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277183 |
In what way is writing a sed script *not* software development? The only grey issue I can see with the quoted subtitle is firmware programming. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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