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What is the Usage Frequency of ASCII Characters?
Mostly I am interested in characters 32 through 126 (space, special characters, numbers, and upper and lower case letters) but the others would be good to know as well, especially the del, backspace, ...
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Weak hashing function for memorable IPv6 addresses
IPv6 addresses in the form of 862A:7373:3386:BF1F:8D77:D3D2:220F:D7E0 are much harder to memorize or even transcribe than the 4 octets of IPv4.
There have been ...
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“Flow layouts” inside a GUI — how do I come up with a good algorithm?
I was trying to write some simple code for a "flow layout" manager and what I came up with initially was something like the following (semi-pseudocode):
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How to score a given arrangement of windows on a screen to produce good layouts
(this is related to my other question, see here)
I would like to write a function that scores a given arrangement of windows on a screen.
The purpose of this function is to determine whether a ...
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Efficient queriable data structure to represent a screen with windows on it
(this is related to my other question, see here)
Imagine a screen, with 3 windows on it:
I'd like to find an efficient data structure to represent this, while supporting these actions:
return a ...
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How to devise an algorithm to arrange (resizable) windows on the screen to cover as much space as possible?
I would like to write a simple program that accepts a set of windows (width+height) and the screen resolution and outputs an arrangement of those windows on the screen such that the windows take the ...
