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#!/bin/bash

# Purpose:      Download a month of archive.org Twitter stream tar files.
# Author:       Marco Schmidt
# Usage:        ./download_twitter.sh DEST_DIR YEAR MONTH PATHYEAR PATHMONTH
# Requirements: (1) tools bash, date, mkdir, nohup, seq, sleep, wget
#               (2) network connectivity to archive.org via https
#               (3) enough free disk space
# Examples:     (1)
#               regular case, the address contains the same month/year in path and file name

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import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

// parse timestamp strings not containing timezone information (but timezone is known)
// without daylight saving time this would be easy (add fixed string like "+01:00")
// how to use Java 8 time API?
// with Java 11+ simply run as: java TimestampParser.java
public class TimestampParser

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#!/bin/bash
# Purpose:  bash script to retrieve IMDb tsv files described at https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/
# Created:  2018-10-03
# Requires: bash, date, mkdir, pushd, wget, ls, du, gzip, popd
#           writing rights and enough space (~ 650 MB as of 2018) in argument directory

# make sure the script has exactly one argument, otherwise exit with usage instructions
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage:   '$0 <directory>' to download IMDb tsv files to 'directory/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD'."
  echo "Note:    <directory> must exist already, subdirectories will be created."

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/**
 * Compute number of distinct tic-tac-toe games.
 * This is a popular interview question.
 * With Java 11+ run as:
 * <pre>
 * java HowManyTicTacToeGames.java
 * </pre>
 * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
 * @author Marco Schmidt
 */

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