Given an array of integers, trim it such that its maximum element becomes less than twice the minimum, return the minimum number of removals required for the conversion. For example, The idea is straightforward and Read more…
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team started the year discussing Harry and Meghan, registered the course of the Covid-19 public health crisis on enterprise IT throughout the year, and finished 2020 with reflections on Read more…
Hi, I have inherited 0.5 mio C# LOC across 180 projects written by complete lunatics. Everything is public, ReSharper has more warnings than LOC and even the unit test project itself has less than 10% Read more…
Given an undirected graph, check whether it has an Eulerian path or not. In other words, check if it is possible to construct a path that visits each edge exactly once. An Eulerian trail is Read more…
Computers are all around us, and they are one of the most widely used electronic machines on Earth. But I bet 90% of the users are not acquainted with its full form. The full form Read more…
The past 12 months have seen an unprecedented surge in cybercriminal activity, with two key trends explaining much of the increase – the Covid-19 pandemic introduced new attack surfaces and opportunities for malicious actors, while Read more…
Given an array of integers, find the next greater element for every element in the array. The next greater element of a number x is the first greater number to the right of x in Read more…
Even though GitHub Readme files (typically ./readme.md) are Markdown, and although Markdown supports HTML, you can’t put <style> or <script> tags init. (Well, you can, they just get stripped.) So you can’t apply custom styles there. Or can you? You Read more…
This is indeed a nice read, but I’m not sure it fully convinces me that record types are actually important (unless you intend to use with). It sets up a problem, solves it with “conventional” Read more…
Is there a way to convert strings (given by the user via the console) to integers (more specifically- strings like these: 5 * 4 + 3 or 3 + 6). What is the simplest way Read more…