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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Converts any integer into a base [BASE] number. I have chosen 62
# as it is meant to represent the integers using all the alphanumeric
# characters, [no special characters] = {0..9}, {A..Z}, {a..z}
#
# I plan on using this to shorten the representation of possibly long ids,
# a la url shortenters
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@isaacsanders
isaacsanders / Equity.md
Created January 21, 2012 15:32
Joel Spolsky on Equity for Startups

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

@mayli
mayli / zipdb.py
Created April 5, 2012 13:58
Use a zipfile store a dict like k-v database
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# zipdb.py
# Use a zipfile store a dict like k-v database.
# Known bug: duplicate key(filenames) allowed
#
# Copyright 2012 mayli <mayli.he@gmail.com>
#
@mendelgusmao
mendelgusmao / gist:2356310
Created April 11, 2012 01:53
high performance URL shortener on steroids using nginx, redis and lua
# based on http://uberblo.gs/2011/06/high-performance-url-shortening-with-redis-backed-nginx
# using code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3554315/lua-base-converter
# "database scheme"
# database 0: id ~> url
# database 1: id ~> hits
# database 2: id ~> [{referer|user_agent}]
# database 3: id ~> hits (when id is not found)
# database 4: id ~> [{referer|user_agent}] (when id is not found)
# database 5: key "count" storing the number of shortened urls; the id is generated by (this number + 1) converted to base 62
@jrsmith3
jrsmith3 / pdfmod.py
Created April 3, 2014 03:31
Convert specified pages from a PDF to png
"""
This script was used to create the figures for http://jrsmith3.github.io/sample-logs-the-secret-to-managing-multi-person-projects.html from a PDF file containing some old CMU sample logs.
"""
import PyPDF2
from wand.image import Image
import io
import os

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rririanto / pypdf_to_image.py
Last active June 16, 2020 06:23
Python Convert PDF to Image
"""
Problem:
How to Convert PDF to Image with Python Script ?
Installation:
I use ubuntu OS 14.04
We use wrapper for ImageMagick [http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php] to Convert The PDF file
in Python do:
$ sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev