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import re, string, unicodedata
import nltk
import contractions
import inflect
from nltk import word_tokenize, sent_tokenize
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem import LancasterStemmer, WordNetLemmatizer

def replace_contractions(text):
    """Replace contractions in string of text"""

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#How to use:
# Initiate an array with any name and call function 'merge_sort' that takes array as an input, start as 1 and end as length of array.


def merge(arr, start, mid1, mid2, end):

    left_array = arr[start -1 : mid1]
    mid_array = arr[mid1: mid2 + 1]
    right_array = arr[mid2 + 1 : end]

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Advanced JavaScript Learning Resources

This is a list of advanced JavaScript learning resources from people who responded to this [Tweet][13] and this [Tweet][20].

• [You Don't Know JS][3]

• [Frontend Masters courses by Kyle Simpson][12]

• [@mpjme][6]'s [YouTube videos][5]

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FWIW: I didn't produce the content presented here (the outline from Edmond Lau's book). I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember what exactly the original source is. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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How to download your Udemy course videos using youtube-dl

$ youtube-dl --list-extractors | grep udemy

Steps

1. Get link to the course to download. e.g. https://www.udemy.com/course-name/
2. Login into udemy website, save the cookie from chrome using Chrome (Cookie.txt)[1] export extension. Save it to file udemy-cookies.txt
3. Get the link of the video that you want to download. usually in format. Use the command provided below where you have to replace the {course_link} and {path_to_cookies_file} with respective paths.

$ youtube-dl {course_link} --cookies {path_to_cookies_file}

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const notifyDjango = (url) => {
  // Record the URL of the file you've uploaded along with any data
  // that is relevent to you.
}


const uploadToS3 = (file, url) => {
   // Upload the file here
  // See https://git.io/fhIz5 as a great example of handling all S3 upload edge cases.
}