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prices = {
  "tennis ball" => 4.99,
  "beach ball" => 12.99,
  "giraffe" => 93.86,
}


print "What is your name? "
name = gets.chomp

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    # Open one end of named pipe
    # @argument pipe_path - path to fifo
    # @argument flag - [r, w, w+, ...
    # @argument wait_on_str - continue if can read]
    # @returns named_pipe -handle
    def named_pipe( pipe_path, flag, wait_on_str=nil )
      if File.exists? pipe_path
        raise "bad #{pipe_path}" unless File.pipe? pipe_path
      end
      pipe_handle = File.mkfifo pipe_path

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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module DiceSet
  def self.roll(num)
    Array.new(num) { 1 + rand(6) }
  end
end


DiceSet.roll(20)

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Text Analyzer
# Author: Zach
# Purpose: Utilize Ruby to analyze Text files
# and generate statistical information therein.

require 'cgi'

STOPWORDS = File.readlines('conf/stop_words.txt').map{|x| x.chomp}

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Text Analyzer
# Author: Zach
# Purpose: Utilize Ruby to analyze Text files
# and generate statistical information therein.

require 'cgi'

STOPWORDS = File.read('conf/stop_words.txt').map{|x| x.chomp}

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require 'socket'

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

PORT = rand(65535 - 1024) + 1024

sthread = Thread.new {
  s = TCPServer.new(PORT).accept
  puts "[SERVER] Client connected."

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module Delegator
  def self.extended(into)
    (class << into; self; end).send :attr_accessor, :delegates
    into.delegates = []

    into.send :define_method, :method_missing do |method, *args, &block|
      self.class.delegates.map{|delegate| send(delegate) }.each do |receiver|
        next unless receiver.respond_to?(method)
        return receiver.send(method, *args, &block)
      end