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from __future__ import division
import copy
from gettext import ngettext

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

attributes = {
    'intelligence': 20,
    'perception': 20,
    'charisma': 19,

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I was part of a group discussing recruiting and on-boarding of women (and to a lesser degree minorities in general). Some highlights that we settled on :

1. Include at least one woman on interview panels for women candidates. This helps to make it clear that the company isn't a mono-culture and reduces the "I don't look like anyone here" effect of being a lone woman in a room full of middle-aged white guys (and maybe a woman recruiter, which only exacerbates things). This may not be possible if you currently have no woman engineers, but try.
2. Be willing to hire junior engineers, both when looking for women and just in general. While it is a bigger risk and requires more upfront investment, you greatly increase your available talent pool.
3. Have a "buddy system" during on-boarding, and actually train your mentors rather than just throwing them into it. When possible, pair new employees with someone of a similar gender/minority/background to help people know they are not alone in your organization. Some ti

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$ knife rackspace flavor list
ID                Name                     VCPUs  RAM     Disk
2                 512MB Standard Instance  1      512     20 GB
3                 1GB Standard Instance    1      1024    40 GB
4                 2GB Standard Instance    2      2048    80 GB
5                 4GB Standard Instance    2      4096    160 GB
6                 8GB Standard Instance    4      8192    320 GB
7                 15GB Standard Instance   6      15360   620 GB
8                 30GB Standard Instance   8      30720   1200 GB
performance1-1    1 GB Performance         1      1024    20 GB

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require 'formula'

class RpmDownloadStrategy < CurlDownloadStrategy
  def initialize name, resource
    super
    @tarball_name = "#{name}-#{resource.version}.tar.gz"
  end

  def stage
    safe_system "rpm2cpio.pl <#{tarball_path} | cpio -vi #{@tarball_name}"

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MEMORY = '<memory>'
class FuckItEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        try:
            return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
        except RuntimeError:
            return '<recur>'
        except MemoryError:
            return MEMORY
        except TypeError:

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{
  "variables": {
    "aws_access_key_id": "{{env `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`}}",
    "aws_secret_access_key": "{{env `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`}}",
    "aws_account_id": "4819-1673-9571",
    "s3_bucket": "balanced-amis",
    "x509_cert_path": "{{pwd}}/balanced-aws.crt",
    "x509_key_path": "{{pwd}}/balanced-aws.key"
  },
  "builders": [

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use strict;

my $reconnect_timer;

sub try_reconnect {
  my $ui = ui_name("main");
  my $server = active_server();
  if(!$server) {
    $ui->print("(trying to reconnect)\n");
    TLily::Event::send(

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To use this snippet first replace the _default in the URL with your environment name if you are using somethign other than the global default. Next in the run list, replace ... with your cookbook names. Unlike other run lists, you cannot have roles here, and you don't use the 'recipe[foo]' syntax, just 'foo'.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import subprocess
import json

from boto.ec2 import connect_to_region

REGIONS = ['us-east-1', 'us-west-1', 'us-west-2']

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How to patch Ubuntu for Heartbleed

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install -y libssl1.0.0 openssl
3. openssl version -a and confirm the "built on" date is >= 2014-04-07
4. sudo lsof -n | grep ssl | grep DEL and restart all listed services.

Repeat #4 until no results are returned.