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#!/usr/bin/python | |
# Challenge: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/xxbbo/882012_challenge_86_easy_runlength_encoding/ | |
# Solution: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/xxbbo/882012_challenge_86_easy_runlength_encoding/c5qf7af | |
# Run code online: http://ideone.com/DwxRr | |
import sys | |
import re | |
if len(sys.argv) == 1: |
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# enable guest additions for virtualbox | |
# in settings > shared folders, add a shared-folder | |
# make folder to mount windows/mac shared-folder to | |
mkdir windows-share-folder | |
# where 'Shared' below matches the name from the settings dialog | |
sudo mount -t vboxsf Shared ~/windows-share-folder | |
# testing old IE in Ubuntu: | |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa | |
sudo apt-get update |
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function check_site() | |
{ | |
local stored_hash='' | |
local changed=false | |
while sleep 60; do | |
# beep a bunch of times: | |
if $changed; then | |
if [[ "$(command -v osascript)" ]]; then | |
osascript -e "beep 5" | |
elif [[ "$(command -v tput)" ]]; then |
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alias npr="osascript -e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to activate' \ | |
-e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to play playlist \"NPR\"'" | |
alias di="osascript -e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to activate' \ | |
-e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to play playlist \"DI.fm\"'" |
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# This script accepts an email address to use to retrieve an Amazon wishlist | |
# for, and an optional branch-ID for the Chicago Public Library system. The | |
# script parses the wishlist and finds the books that are available for | |
# *CHECK OUT* (unavailable books, in-transit, on hold, etc. are ignored). | |
require 'net/https' | |
require "open-uri" | |
require 'uri' | |
require 'zlib' |
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#!/bin/bash | |
# generate an xml podcast file for a directory of files | |
# | |
# I parse id3v1 tags but only for the artist and track title, | |
# most of the samples did not have reliable meta-data, so the | |
# file-name is used. | |
# | |
# I don't process id3v2 tags because an external library would be needed | |
# such as id3lib. |
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#!/bin/sh | |
# generates an empty .project file with just the name of the directory | |
# being used as the project name | |
# USAGE: | |
if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then | |
echo; echo "Usage: $0 [options]" | |
echo; echo "== Options" | |
echo; echo -e "Pass the string \"sub\" to generate empty .project files for \ |
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