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Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

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/*!
 * ES6 Unicode Shims 0.1
 * (c) 2012 Steven Levithan <http://slevithan.com/>
 * MIT License
 */

/**
 * Returns a string created using the specified sequence of Unicode code points. Accepts integers
 * between 0 and 0x10FFFF. Code points above 0xFFFF are converted to surrogate pairs. If a provided
 * integer is in the surrogate range, it produces an unpaired surrogate. Comes from accepted ES6

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Setup modern.ie vagrant boxes

Since modern.ie released vagrant boxes, it' no longer necessary to manually import the ova file to virtualbox, as mentioned here.

However, the guys at modern.ie didn't configured the box to work with WinRM. This how-to addresses that, presenting steps to proper repackage these boxes, adding WinRM support. Additionally configures chocolatey package manager and puppet provisioner.

Pre-requisites

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# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

=begin
ModernIE VMs

config.vm.box = "modernIE/vista-ie7"
config.vm.box = "modernIE/w7-ie8"
config.vm.box = "modernIE/w7-ie9"
config.vm.box = "modernIE/w7-ie10"

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/*--- waitForKeyElements():  A utility function, for Greasemonkey scripts,
    that detects and handles AJAXed content.

    Usage example:

        waitForKeyElements (
            "div.comments"
            , commentCallbackFunction
        );

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Python 2.7. Unicode Errors Simply Explained

I know I'm late with this article for about 5 years or so, but people are still using Python 2.x, so this subject is relevant I think.

Some facts first:

• Unicode is an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts
• In python-2.x, there are two types that deal with text.
  1. str is an 8-bit string.

2. unicode is for strings of unicode code points.

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// INPUT: ၁၁.၁၂.၂၀၁၇
// OUTPUT: 11.12.2017
function mm2en(num) {
    var nums = { '၀': '0', '၁': 1, '၂': 2, '၃': 3, '၄': 4 , '၅': 5, '၆': 6, '၇':7, '၈':8, '၉':9 };
    return num.replace(/([၀-၉])/g, function(s, key) {
        return nums[key] || s;
    });
}

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Most Japanese websites use default font sets provided on Windows, Mac or Ubuntu. The latest ones are Meiryo, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro and Noto. For older versions such like Windows XP, it is good to add former default fonts MS Gothic(or MS Mincho)/Osaka. Older Linux versions may include Takao fonts.

Some old browsers could not understand those font names in English, some others do not recognize the names in Japanese, so it is safe to write both in Japanese and English.

Meiryo and Hiragino's order is, because Mac users may have Meiryo from MS-Office, and Hiragino is more familiar and matching well on Mac, better by starting Hiragino series.

So the current recommended practice is like this:

font-family: "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Osaka, メイリオ, Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", "ＭＳ ゴシック" , "MS Gothic", "Noto Sans CJK JP", TakaoPGothic, sans-serif;

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Installing PyICU, libpostal, pypostal on Mac OS X 10.14+

libicu-dev (PyICU dependency)

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies icu4c
brew install pkg-config icu4c  # keg-only

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import PyICU

# below from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13838405/custom-sorting-in-pandas-dataframe

df = token_count
locale = 'UR.UTF-8'
collator = icu.Collator.createInstance(icu.Locale(locale))

def sort_pd(key=None,reverse=False,cmp=None):
    def sorter(series):