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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time

# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# go to the google home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

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#!/bin/sh
#dropbox service
DROPBOX_USERS="user1 user2"

DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropbox

start() {
   echo "Starting dropbox..."
   for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
       HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`

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rubycsv.txt
===
first, last, country
Yukihiro, Matsumoto, Japan
Bruce, Tate, USA

animals.txt
===
one, two
lions, tigers

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The term 'invisible deficit' comes from the introduction to Taylor's 
"Principles of Scientific Management":

"We can see and feel the waste of material things. Awkward, inefficient, or
ill-directed movements of men, however, leave nothing visible or tangible
behind them. Their appreciation calls for an act of memory, an effort of the
imagination. And for this reason, even though our daily loss from this source
is greater than from our waste of material things, the one has stirred us
deeply, while the other has moved us but little."

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, 
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, 
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, 
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, 
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, 
fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." 
  -- Robert Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973.

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%% A board is a list of states, each of which can be 'O', '' or 'X'
%% e.g. board('', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '').

board('X', 'O', '', 'X', '', '', 'X', 'O', '').

row_one_win(X) :- board(X, X, X, _, _, _, _, _, _).
row_two_win(X) :- board(_, _, _, X, X, X, _, _, _).
row_three_win(X) :- board(_, _, _, _, _, _, X, X, X).
row_win(X) :- row_one_win(X) ; row_two_win(X) ; row_three_win(X).

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# General pattern for intersection of two arrays of objects: 
#   collection1.filter collection2.indexOf
#
# Exercise for the reader: much optimisation can be done

myAlbums = [ 
  { id: 1, title: "The White Album" },
  { id: 2, title: "The Black Album" },
  { id: 3, title: "Hemispheres" },
  { id: 4, title: "Pure Heroine" } ]

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Measurement, quantification and violence

Fox on Software, by @sleepyfox on 21 Jan 2014

"Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!"

I hope that this provides the reader with some food for thought, and encourages your curiosity enough to ask some of the more challenging questions around metrics, measurement and quantification, both at work and in your broader life.

NVC, or Non-Violent Communication, is a way of communicating invented by Marshall Rosenburg as a way of facilitating and mediating between parties in conflict resolution scenarios between civil rights activists and the administration in 1960s America.

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