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# https://github.com/brechtm/citeproc-py
# https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles

from citeproc.py2compat import *
from citeproc import formatter, Citation, CitationItem, CitationStylesStyle, CitationStylesBibliography
from citeproc.source.json import CiteProcJSON


def get_citation(data, style):
    bib_source = CiteProcJSON(data)

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# The lines below go into: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
# Last tested on Ubuntu 18.04 on 13.08.2018
#
# Enable scroll wheel emulation for the Logitech Trackman Marble mouse. Holding
# the small right button will allow you to scroll both vertically and
# horizontally using the ball; for using the left small button use 8 for
# ScrollButton.
# Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logitech_Marble_Mouse#Using_libinput
# This config also disables the browser back/forward functionality of the small buttons
# and is intended for left-hand users.

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This work-in-progress summarizes the way-too-many BigData(tm) technologies.
This is by no means an in-depth description, but a very short summary so that
I know where to look.


1. Databases:
* DynamoDB - aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ - Amazon AWS integration, MapReduce
* MongoDB - mongodb.org/ - JSON-style document database, SQL-like queries + MapReduce
* Riak - basho.com/riak/ - Key-Value storage, MapReduce
* CouchDB - couchdb.apache.org/ - JSON document storage, JavaScript Queries + MapReduce

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For compiling LaTeX documents (with BibTex support) we basically have two options:

LaTeX - will produce a DVI file:
latex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex|bibtex %.aux|latex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex|latex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex|"C:/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/bin/yap.exe" %.dvi

PdfLaTeX:
pdflatex --shell-escape --enable-write18 -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|bibtex %.aux|pdflatex --shell-escape --enable-write18 -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|pdflatex --shell-escape --enable-write18 -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|"C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Reader 11.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe" %.pdf

These commands are tailored for Texmaker (Win) and will open the approiate preview application after compiling the documents.
Also, (E)PS file support is included; to make sure such images will be correctly displayed, add the following to your LaTeX source preamble:

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"""
    This brief script demonstrates a frequent mistake in Python related
    to the different ways of copying objects.
    
    References: 
    1. Personal experience 
    2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2196956/add-an-object-to-an-array-python
"""

import copy # http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html

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# A funny thing about Python: http://hatepaste.com/paste/6c7e1a3c

True = False
if True:
    print "ORLY?"
else:
    print "YARLY!"

# BUT, this will work only in Python 2.x; in Python 3.x you will get 
# "SyntaxError: assignment to keyword" at line 2

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"""Some Python code to illustrate the 'issue' noticed in JavaScript here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9381321/a-function-is-larger-than-an-array

This will work on Python 2.x; in Python 3.x you would get:
TypeError: unorderable types: list() > function()
"""

l1 = []

def f():

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"""These are my answers for the Embedly Challenge""" 

from xml.etree import ElementTree
from numpy import std # you'll need numpy for Question 2

def question1():
    def digitSum(x):
        # pretty ugly, eh?
        return sum(map(int, list(str(x))))
    

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"""To run this: $ python3 parse.py test.xml

The script will pase a XML file and print its node tags.

Compatible with Python 3; changing the print statements should make this 
compatible with Python 2.
"""

import sys

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class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, a_number, **kwargs):
        self.a_number = a_number
        for key, value in kwargs.items(): # adding new attributes
            setattr(self, key, value)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    MY_OBJECT = MyClass(1, a_string = "Hello world!")
    print MY_OBJECT.a_number, MY_OBJECT.a_string