On: The Archive of Interesting Code

[abcd_f]

Some are interesting, but there's lots of mundane and generally boring stuff too, e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=argmax

[stiff → abcd_f]

Wow, what a sad place has HN become that this kind of comment is getting upvoted. There are tons of interesting stuff in there, very exhaustively commented, and you say "some are interesting, lots are mundane" quoting a single goddamn example. Wouldn't linking the interesting ones be, like, more interesting? What a fucking weak attitude!

[blablabla123 → stiff]

Have you looked at the link he provided?

IMHO it doesn't fit at all with the other things. You can implement In-Place Mergesort or one of its variants by studying Wikipedia. Or you can just look up a nice implementation from the OPs site and port it to your favorite language. That said, this argmin/argmax thing does absolutely not fit.

[stiff → blablabla123]

It's just ONE example, and if it's really the most interesting thing HN has to say on this (it was the top comment when I responded) then it's truly a sad state of affairs. Those btw are as much tutorials as they are "nice implementations", there are lots of things pointed out in the comments that you won't easily find on Wikipedia.

[eps → stiff]

To each his own. For some splay trees is a revelation, for others - it's Algorithms 101.

[stiff → eps]

Euclid's Algorithm is certainly Algorithms 101, his discussion of it - far from it:

http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=euclid