Sneftel

Sneftel has asked 20 questions and find answers to 222 problems.

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Sneftel questions

Need good language for math- and logic-heavy research programming
Optionally safety-checked cast on possibly incomplete type
Closest pair of points across a line
Unexpectedly ambiguous overload resolution in VC++ 2012
Releasing multiple locks without causing priority inversion
Condition breakpoint on higher stack frames
Closest points on 2d segments, passing through third 2d segment
"Most important const" with conditional expression?
Why is a name's point of declaration before its initializer?
Efficiently detect that rational numbers are equal

Sneftel answers

Is it possible to un-link object files from an executable
Good way to fix warning "field a is not used" if field is unused in configuration
Simplify sort of Excel cell names in python
Does atan2 required normalized vectors? Which is better to use acos or atan for angles between vectors?
Uniformly and randomly choose M elements from N elements - confused
Can I convert a pointer address (i.e. an hex integer) to decimal and octal base int in C++
c++ shared_ptr from char* to void*
Is there any C++ compiler which can issue a warning for a dangling reference?
U suffix in the variable declaration
Is - (- x) = x correct in floating point arithmetic?