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#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
fourdown.py

A simple script to grab links to images found on a page.

You can use as is for downloading images from thread on 4chan or you can
import FourDown and do what ever you want with it.

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To use this bot:

• Download ads_bot.py and requirements.txt.
• Type pip install -r requirements.txt to install the requirements.
• Fill out the required information in the Python file.
• Ideally, create a (free) Slack account and set up a web hook to receive notifications from the bot.
• Run the script :)
• Relax and be ready to answer incoming calls :D

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saw this artcile quoting 10 reasons why jquery is better than mootools. source: http://www.jquery4u.com/articles/jquery-mootools/

jQuery has better mobile support than Mootools – the latest release of jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 has been a breakthrough in how easy it can be to get your website “mobile efficient”. Mootools has mobile support including touch events but it’s not as widely available as jQuery options. (#1 was Previously jQuery vs Mootools filesizes).

not true. see http://moobilejs.com/

jQuery is less confusing than Mootools! – It has less native extensions (including element) – jQuery has about a dozen for Array, Object, and String and Mootools has about six dozen for Array, Object, String, Function, and Number.

how is less power and methods a good thing? the reason why mootools has more native methods is because it also shims browsers that lack ES5 functionality for all the natives that it extends. if anything, this goes against jquery.

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# Install
sudo easy_install virtualenv

# Create a new environment:
cd ~/project
virtualenv env

# Activate
. env/bin/activate

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Google's authentication-less on-the-fly image resizing service

I found it while poking around the Google+ HTML. Jotting down some notes felt like a good idea, so here goes. If you know more about this API, let me know, please!

(Word of warning: I spent ~30 minutes on both my experimentation and this here write-up, so it might not be the most thought-provoking, brilliant thing you read today.)

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Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

By @kachayev

Intro

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Working with HTTP from the command-line is a valuable skill for HTTP architects and API designers to have. The cURL library and curl command give you the ability to design a Request, put it on the pipe, and explore the Response. The downside to the power of curl is ho https://httpkit.com/resources/HTTP-from-the-Command-Line/ w much breadth its options cover. Running curl --help spits out 150 different flags and options. This article demonstrates nine basic, real-world applications of curl .

In this tutorial we’ll use the httpkit echo service as our end point. The echo server’s Response is a JSON representation of the HTTP request it receives.

Make a Request

Let’s start with the simplest curl command possible.

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if !database: wget + grep

The Federal Aviation Administration is posting PDFs of the Section 333 exemptions that it grants, i.e. the exemptions for operators who want to fly drones commercially before the FAA finishes its rulemaking. A journalist wanted to look for exemptions granted to operators in a given U.S. state. But the FAA doesn't appear to have an easy-to-read data file to use and doesn't otherwise list exemptions by location of operator.

However, since their exemptions page is just one giant HTML table for listing the PDFs, we can just use wget to fetch all the PDFs, run pdftotext on each file, and then [grep](https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-m

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Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract

extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin   # change this ID
curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=unknown&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" 
unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip"

Thx to crxviewer for the magic download URL.

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> I'm able to follow most of your instructions in the tutorial. However,
> there are things that are not yet obvious to me. If, for instance, I
> want to find the implementation of a specific built-in, where do I go?
> The `dis()` decompilation of `id()`, which I want to study, isn't
> instructive. Using `find ... -print0 | xargs -0 grep ...` also doesn't
> seem to get me anything useful. But I don't even see "builtins" file or
> a section of http://docs.python.org/3.3/c-api/index.html dealing with
> built-ins at all. Where should I be looking; how should I generalize
> this type of search for the future?