Questions tagged [map]
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java hashtable extending to support duplicates
I have to maintain an old application and have to extend some modules.
There is an hashtable that is used for maintaining/holding some objects as representation of running (real) processes (don't see ...
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When define locale text map, language key or text key, which one should be the first key?
When define a locale text map, I can use:
1.locale key first
{
"en":{
"WELCOME_TO_USE_THIS_APP":"Welcome to use this app,...",
"SOME_OTHER_TEXT":"fsdfsf..."
},
"es":{
"...
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Use POJO or Map when there is a finite number of known keys?
I have some set of data with key-value pairs, but there is only a finite and known set of keys, all of the key should always be present on that data, and they all have the same type for the value. ...
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How to avoid Global State with a world map?
This is a conceptual problem I'm having general difficulty with, and I'd like to look at an example that can hopefully help clarify this: using a map to represent an alterable game world. For ...
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Hash map without collision check
A few days ago I found a fun fact, that finding a collision of 256-bit hash using brute-force is physically impossible in solar system.
That made me think, what would happen if we used a good (...
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How to communicate that insertion order matters in a map?
I'm fetching a set of tuples from the database, and putting it into a map. The database query is costly.
There is no obvious natural ordering of the elements in the map, but insertion order matters ...
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MVP: Should a View have multiple Presenters?
Is it desirable (from an architectural standpoint) to have more than one Presenter communicating with a View?
In my particular situation I have one presenter communicating with multiple views, and ...
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Self hosting map vector tiles for web application
I'm building a web application, which involves (currently) a REST backend and a frontend SPA. The backend is hosting massive geo-enabled data, and the frontend is displaying it on a mapbox map. I'm ...
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Map/store run time ID for objects
What I want to achieve: I need to obtain a run time (unique) id for "any object" (for classes either in java SE, classes I have created or classes provided by other third parties... any instance of a ...
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Is it possible to create instance of an Interface(e.g-Map Interface)?If it is then how?
In most Java code, I see people declare Java objects like this:
Map<String, String> hashMap = new HashMap<>();
instead of:
HashMap<String, String> hashMap = new HashMap<>();
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Javascript queue-like key-pair sorted collection
I'm looking for a collection that would suit my scenario:
I will be inserting key-value pairs (both integers) of ID and timestamp. The ID must be unique.
At some interval I will be checking that ...
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Data structure for fast bi-directional SHA-1 to SHA-3 mapping
What data structure would be best choice for fast and performant bidirectional SHA-1 to SHA-3 mapping? Or in other words fixed-length string to fixed-length string mapping?
To be more precise:
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Two “flavours” of undefined in JavaScript shown by trying to map them
Why does the 1st map method below treat element #2 as undefined but the 2nd map method does not?
const a = [undefined,,42]; // Note the two consecutive commas.
console.log(a.map(x=>x)); ...
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A multi-processing approach to listing the occurrences of words in a text file
A classical problem: read the words from a text file and list the occurence of each unique word in the file.
I solved the problem using a hash map, but how could the performance be improved? I ...
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Are we “allowed” to use methods on JavaScript maps (the data type) and if so are there any new rules?
JavaScript maps (the data type, not the array method) seem set up to accept data (key/value pairs) but not necessarily methods. At least they're not advertised that way. However, we can put methods ...
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How to avoid having an object id as the key in a map and also inside the object itself?
I am using a JSON map to save objects (e.g. users) whose ids are the keys of the map but the object (user) itself also contains the id.
JSON
{
"john":{
"username":"john",
"age":30
}...
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Can hashtable be used for implementing multimap?
Is it correct that hashtables assume no key is shared between more
than one records?
In other words, can hashtables be used for implementing multimaps?
When using a hashtable, can't multiple records ...
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Mapping Lat & Long for daily history overview on Google Maps
So i have the following data for over a month ( an app that registers all i do)
Lat
Long
On ( DateTime )
Now i am interested in creating a history on plotting the points on Google Maps, similar to ...
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Memory usage on Creating a Travian like map and 441 Buttons on a page
I'm creating A Map like Travian on Xamarin forms
My map is something like 5000*5000
The way I want to do that is to load part of the map (21*21) of the big map where the current village is the ...
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What is the most idiomatic way to iterate collection with different action for first element?
Sometimes we meet a situation where we should iterate (or map) over a collection, applying the same procedure (function) for all elements except the first one. The simplest example is finding the max ...
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Implementing map with tail recursion
I am trying to solve this exercise. It is about reimplementing the map function in haskell for learning purpose. I found a solution which doesn't browse all the elements of the list (simple linked ...
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Type of map for Try[T]
I was looking at the type of map for Try[T] in Scala, which is:
def map[S](f: T=>S): Try[S]
From Haskell, I am used to the type of map being:
map :: (a->b)->[a]->[b]
This seems very ...
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How to map collection of unique large numbers to an array?
I have a list of unique 8 byte random ids and new ids are generated often. Let's say that the total number of ids can become at most N (let's say 100,000). Now, I want to map each of these ids to a ...
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Storing pairs in a map
If I have a Pair class like this:
class Pair<K, L>{
public final K a;
public final L b;
public Pair(K obj1, L obj2){this.a = obj1; this.b = obj2;}
//...
}
I want to associate a ...
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Divide the world map into fixed sized blocks
I am developing an app where I need to divide the entire world map into fixed sized square blocks. For simplicity, think of it as a problem of dividing the google maps into a fixed sized block. I can ...
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What does mapping mean in programming?
I often hear things like:
Mapping the classes
Mapping the objects from the database
Mapping the objects
Mapping the elements of a list
A mapper
What does a mapper and the act of mapping something ...
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Integer Map Algorithm [closed]
For my project, I need to map integers so that inputting int X will output int Y where both X and Y are defined during runtime.
I've used Dictionary<int,int> in .NET but its memory use is too ...
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DDD - map or object [closed]
What is correct by DDD - should I create map of two objects eg Map or should i use more meaningfull object that will contain this pair MoreMeaningfullName{Obj1, Obj2} ?
If using first approach, I don'...
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“Use map instead of class to represent data” -Rich Hickey
In this video by Rich Hickey, the Clojure creator, he advises to use map to represent data instead of using a class to represent it, as done in Java. I don't understand how it can be better, since how ...
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Determine exact coordinates for a map image?
My brother suggested that I should write a web app that lets students create and print blank maps. A blank map is a map that contains country borders, waters etc. but no text labels. The first use ...
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Adding values to HashMap
I want to add values to a HashMap, which would be used by methods in the same class. I have two solutions:
Adding all the values with static
When the first method is called, add the values
Solution #...
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Reduce Operations on Distributed Databases
I would like to ask you about optimizing reduce operations (e.g. count) on multiple databases.
Let's say there is a user table that is stored in various countries and sharding is made based on the ...
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storing map template in database
I am working on an application that displays choropleth maps. These maps are of all different types, some display state by county, country by state/province, or world by country.
How should I ...
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How to find out if a tile is being covered by a polygon?
Given a (intersecting) polygon, I'd like find out which tiles are being covered by the polygon.
Example:
Details:
Tiles are square, 1 unit wide/high
The grid begins in (0,0)
The corners of the ...
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Mapping a list of optional values to an optional list of values
I have encountered the following pattern while programming in Haskell (but the pattern could occur in any language supporting lists, option types, and mapping of a function over a list). I have types ...
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Why does HashMap allow only one null key? [closed]
A HashMap allows only one null key. Is it because it allows only unique keys? Or is there another reason?
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How do I initialize a Scala map with more than 4 initial elements in Java?
For 4 or fewer elements, something like this works (or at least compiles):
import scala.collection.immutable.Map;
Map<String,String> HAI_MAP = new Map4<>("Hello", "World",
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how to map controllers , models, and views as a todo list
Before starting on a current project I was wondering if there is a terminology for what I am planning on doing? Basically what I want to do is map out every object in layers such as all the ...
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Dataset with coordinates of borders of countries [closed]
I am creating an application that visually displays world regions, e.g. to place markers within an administrative region.
Does a dataset exist with geometrical or geographical (long/lat) descriptions ...
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Map of functions vs switch statement
I'm working on a project that processes requests, and there are two components to the request: the command and the parameters. The handler for each command is very simple (< 10 lines, often < 5)....
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How can “hash functions” be used to implement hash maps at all?
My understandment is that hash maps allow us to link, say, a string, to certain memory location. But if every string were to be linked to a unique place in memory it would need a huge block of empty ...
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What can I do in order to inform users of potential errors in my software in order to minimize liability?
I'm an independent software developer that's spent the last few months creating software for viewing and searching map data. The software has some navigation functionality as well (mapping, directions,...
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Best approach for saving highlighted areas on geographical map
I am designing an application that allow users to highlight areas of a geographical map using a tool that is like brush or a pen. The tool basically draw a circle with a single click and continue ...
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Multi-platform Map Application
I'm working on a web project (PHP, jQuery) which currently using Google Maps powering up the map functionality of the application, however we need to make it multi-platform like you can go to the ...
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For csv database extracts, how do map keys not create a dependency?
A lot of my work is done with .csv extracts (reports) from databases. As I have been programming in Clojure, I've received comments that relying on vector indexes creates dependencies. I understand ...
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Countour Mapping API
I have done some searching on Google, but haven't come up with much as of yet. I am wanting to take a set of point data, which I had previously been using to create weighted points for a heat map ...
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Google Maps-based desktop application [closed]
I want to build a desktop application which has google maps embedded to it. This app should have a thread to read coordinate data online a usb microphone to use. This application will move the google ...
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sorting using a custom definition of “>” and “< ” in python
suppose I have a custom function such as
def greater(a, b):
if (a % b) % 2 == 0:
return 1
return 0
It defines how to compare two numbers and determine which is greater.
In this case,...
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(How can I / Am I allowed to) Use Google Maps as a Texture on an OpenGL object?
Note: I asked a very similar question on StackOverflow but did not get much attention, so was directed to http://programmers.stackexchange.com as licensing issues seem to have more interest here...
I ...
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GIS-based data visualization and maintenance tool
Background
Looking to leverage an existing GIS system for exploring organizational data.
Architecture
The following figure represents a high-level overview of the system's desired features:
The ...
