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import time, email.utils
a = time.time() # now
b = email.utils.mktime_tz(email.utils.parsedate_tz('Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:31:22 +0530')) # using output of `date -R`
a - b # difference in seconds

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// mkdir /tmp/scopt_test
// cd /tmp/scopt_test
// echo 'libraryDependencies += "com.github.scopt" %% "scopt" % "2.1.0"' > build.sbt
// sbt clean compile "run --foo 7"

case class Config(foo: Int = -1)

object ScoptTest {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val parser = new scopt.immutable.OptionParser[Config]("scopt", "2.x") {

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from datetime import datetime, tzinfo, timedelta

# a class to implement abstract tzinfo
class Zone(tzinfo):
    def __init__(self, offset, isdst, name):

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#!/bin/bash -ex

#hardware
arch
grep --after 3 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
lshw -quiet -short

# current status
vmstat -SM # unit in MB
df --human-readable

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fs = require 'fs'

omitCharCode = 0x00

if process.argv.length isnt 4
	console.log 'insufficient arguments'
	console.log "Usage: #{process.argv[0]} #{process.argv[1]} <source> <destination>"
	process.exit()

source = process.argv[2]

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#!/bin/bash

USER=bilal
DOMAIN=localnetwork.com 

LOCAL_LOCATION=/home/bilal/networkStorage
REMOTE_LOCATION=//{IP_ADDRESS}/{DIRECTORY}

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=$USER,domain=$DOMAIN $REMOTE_LOCATION $LOCAL_LOCATION
echo -e "to unmount:\n\tsudo umount $LOCAL_LOCATION"

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#!/usr/bin/python
import datetime
import calendar

def getLastWeekStamps(today=datetime.date.today()):
	"""Usage:
		getLastWeekStamps()
		getLastWeekStamps(datetime.date(2012, 1, 4))
	"""
	oneday = datetime.timedelta(days=1)

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-- fetches the last week date range (sunday to sunday)
-- for the specified time zone offset

DECLARE @OffsetMinutes AS SMALLINT = +330

DECLARE @UtcDate AS DATETIME = GETUTCDATE()
DECLARE @LocalDate AS DATETIME = DATEADD(MINUTE, @OffsetMinutes, @UTCDATE)

DECLARE @LastSunday AS DATETIME = CONVERT(VARCHAR(4), YEAR(@LocalDate))
	+ '-' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), MONTH(@LocalDate))