General Programming

compensation matrix, salary, pay, income
Does your company provide you with a salary matrix?, a way to calculate what you might expect given your position, time in that position and performance review data. I've never worked at a large company that didn't. Now I do. It's the strangest thing. I can't sit down and even guess what I could be making in 2 or... 13 Sep 2005 08:38

how to generate a sequence?
Hi All, I have problem, I want to generate all possible (unique) combinations of the following sequence: 123456789 213456789 312456789 321456789 .. .. Symbols allowed : 1 - 9 Though, symbols can be anything like A B C D E F G H I, not necessarily numbers. NOTE: there will be !n (Factorial n) l... 9 Sep 2005 10:14

Redirect IFrame links
ok, so they say that one of the characteristics of an open source programmer is he/she knows the benefits of using other people's code and can incorporate that. Well, I am trying to get into the open source programming community but first I have to learn well enough. So I've got projects I'm working on (what prog... 1 Jul 2005 18:23

Software Job Market Myths
The following myths are misconceptions that are hurting the U.S. and European software industries. These misconceptions are reducing employment in the software job market. They are hurting the lives of programmers. There may be misinformation spread by companies that profit from outsourcing, by established "big-b... 28 Aug 2005 01:50

Change Patterns (was: Polymorphism sucks)
> This sounds like a Strategy pattern, It is. and there are table-oriented and procedural strategy patterns also. None that allow independent deployability. (e.g. I want to ship new pay classifications in new DLLs without changing the central core). But in my experience such indepe... 25 Aug 2005 12:19

puzzle
ok here is a puzzle. there is an integer array whose length is odd, and all the numbers in the array appear exactly two times except one. Find the number in O(n) time. Try to do it without using any other data structure. ... 20 Jul 2005 10:45

greedy method
Hello all I want to know whether there is any greedy approach for job sequencing with variable job completion times.. if there is no greedy approach how to prove it... ... 24 Feb 2005 10:19

Intro to Programming w/ Machine Language
I'm teaching at our local community college as an adjunct. They have an "intro to programming" class which teaches flow charting, logic, and design principles for new programmers, using mostly pseudo-code rather than actual programs. Anyway, being a believer in knowing assembly language, I decided to put to... 3 Mar 2005 06:18

Algorithm book recommendation?
Hi, I have been trying my hand at programming for a year as an amateur. However, I have no formal education in computer science or mathematics. Hence, now I am learning algorithms & data structures from some textbooks. People recommend "Introduction to Algorithms" by Thomas Cormen etc & Sedgewicks ... 14 Feb 2005 19:27

Sockets in C on Linux
Hello, I'd like to know if there is a way to know if one of the sides of a TCP connection is down without sending any message, using some API (in UNIX) Thanks Andrea ... 14 Feb 2005 19:27