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# By twitter.com/j4mie
#
# Like this: http://blog.davidziegler.net/post/107429458/see-which-twitterers-don-t-follow-you-back-in-less-than
#  ..but with API pagination (in case you have more than 100 friends or followers).
# Needs this: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
#  ..which needs this: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplejson

import twitter, getpass, sys

def page_function(function):

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Too big for a gist, converted to a full repository: http://github.com/j4mie/marvin/

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#!/bin/bash

# Convert a directory of .markdown files to HTML and PDF.
# Requires: markdown and htmldoc

for i in $( ls *.markdown );
do
	echo Compiling $i
	name=$( echo $i | sed 's/.markdown//' )

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# Get website password at command line in Mac OS X
security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-internet-password -gs twitter.com | grep password | sed 's/password: "\(.*\)"/\1/'

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// A bookmarklet to extract the short 'flic.kr' url from a Flickr photo page,
// and display it in a prompt dialog box ready to be copied to the clipboard.

javascript:var links = document.getElementsByTagName('link'); for (link in links) { href=links[link].href; if (href && href.match('/flic\.kr/')) { prompt("flic.kr url:", href); }}

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#!/usr/bin/python

# sqail by Jamie Matthews jamie.matthews@gmail.com
# 20th February 2009

# "tail -f" an sqlite table - monitor all inserts

# Usage: ./sqail dbfile tablename

# Prints the rowid of the row followed by a colon, then a

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Command to check whether a server returns a different headers for a HEAD request than a GET.

site=http://www.facebook.com; diff <(curl -I ${site}) <(curl -i ${site} | sed '/^\r$/ q')

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# Concatenate a set of CSV files passed as arguments. The headers of all
# the files must match. Output will be a single header row, followed
# by all the rows from all the CSV files.

import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
	sys.exit("No arguments supplied")

buffer = []

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#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, random

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("Please supply number of letters to generate")
    sys.exit(1)
try:
    letters_to_generate = int(sys.argv[1])
except:
    print("Argument must be a number")

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# Print all permutations formed by concatenating every word in a 
# list with every other word in the same list. Good for generating 
# idea/project/company names from a list of relevant words. The list
# will be sorted by word length.

from itertools import permutations
words = "spam eggs beans".split()
perms = ["".join(permutation) for permutation in permutations(words, 2)]
print "\n".join(sorted(perms, lambda a, b: len(a) - len(b)))