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alrocar / index.html
Last active September 27, 2018 18:50
WIX iframe
<html>
<head>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
.topad {
height: 26px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 999999999;
top: 0;
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alrocar / facebook_accept_friends
Created October 11, 2014 14:03
How to accept all Facebook friends request
// Open the Javascript console of your favourite browser
var jq = document.createElement('script');
jq.src = "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jq);
// ... give time for script to load, then type.
jQuery.noConflict();
//Go to Facebook friends request page (https://www.facebook.com/friends/requests/?split=1&fcref=ft)
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alrocar / facebook_invite_all
Created October 11, 2014 14:05
How to invite all your friends to your Facebook page
// Open the Javascript console of your favourite browser
var jq = document.createElement('script');
jq.src = "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jq);
// ... give time for script to load, then type.
jQuery.noConflict();
//Go to Facebook, search for your page, Go to 'Invite friends'. Scroll to make visible all your friends
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alrocar / animate lines script
Last active July 5, 2018 10:21
animate lines script
with lines as
(SELECT cartodb_id, color, ord, ST_Segmentize(ST_MakeLine(st_centroid(the_geom), lead(st_centroid(the_geom)) OVER (ORDER BY ord))::geography, 100000)::geometry as the_geom
FROM world_borders_four_colors_1_adjacency_list),
tosplit AS (
SELECT * FROM lines
WHERE ST_XMax(the_geom) - ST_XMin(the_geom) > 180
),
nosplit AS (
SELECT * FROM lines
WHERE ST_XMax(the_geom) - ST_XMin(the_geom) <= 180
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alrocar / high quality gif
Last active May 26, 2018 15:13
high-quality-gif
# first create a palette of the portion of the video with more colors
ffmpeg -y -ss 20 -t 3 -i input.mp4 -vf fps=50,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png
# then use the palette to obtain high quality colors
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i palette.png -filter_complex "fps=50,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif
# -ss -> start from second
# -t -> duration
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alrocar / carto-python-bigquery
Created April 18, 2018 05:11
This is a sample snippet to ingest data from BigQuery into CARTO by using both Python SDKs
A snippet to make a query to BigQuery and import the result in CARTO using both Python client libraries:
```
#!/usr/bin/env python
import argparse
import time
import uuid
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Reacciones al #AccordDeParis</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://cartodb.com/assets/favicon.ico" />
<style>
html, body, #map {
height: 100%;
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://libs.cartocdn.com/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/themes/css/cartodb.css" />
<!-- <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cartodb-libs.global.ssl.fastly.net/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/themes/css/cartodb.css" /> -->
<style type="text/css">
html,
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alrocar / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Created June 29, 2017 13:09 — forked from dergachev/GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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alrocar / segment-line
Last active April 30, 2017 19:16
Segment a line with PostGIS
insert into SEGMENTED_DATASET SELECT cartodb_id+n, ST_LineSubstring(the_geom, 100.00*n/length,
CASE
WHEN 100.00*(n+1) < length THEN 100.00*(n+1)/length
ELSE 1
END) As the_geom
FROM
(SELECT TRACK_GPS.cartodb_id,
ST_LineMerge(TRACK_GPS.the_geom) AS the_geom,
ST_Length(TRACK_GPS.the_geom::geography) As length
FROM TRACK_GPS