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Are there any general techniques to speed up my coding?

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mcwise asks:

I am preparing for a programming contest where we have to code in C++ and it is all about producing working code in a short time. An example would be to use a macro to get the minimum of two ints or using memsets to initialize arrays (but I was told that you shouldn’t use either here).

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Secure Coding Practices Out The Window With Mobile Apps – Dark Reading

Secure Coding Practices Out The Window With Mobile Apps
Dark Reading
OWASP's Mobile Security Project aims to offer developers and security teams tools and resources for writing and supporting secure mobile apps. The Project includes a threat model, training, and platform-specific guidelines. But meanwhile, mobile app

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Strategies: A Coding Error Spells Problems at AXA Rosenberg (Jeff Sommer/New York Times)

Jeff Sommer / New York Times:
Strategies: A Coding Error Spells Problems at AXA Rosenberg  —  INVESTING is always an act of faith, but perhaps never more so than when you entrust your money to a quant fund.  —  Quantitative funds, after all, are the “black boxes” of investing — portfolios run by managers who generally try …

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