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# Finds your longest man pages by counting `man n foo | wc -l`
# for all man pages available.

man -k . |
sed -e 's/(//' -e 's/)//' |
awk '{ print $2, $1 }' |
xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "echo -n -e "{}"'\t'; man "{}" | wc -l" 2>/dev/null |
awk -F$'\t' 'BEGIN { max = 0 } { if ($2 > max) { max = $2; print "max found: " max " (" $1 ")" } }'

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#
# Show all lines added to `some-dir/` in the last week (on all branches), restricted to:
# 
# * only newly added files,
# * those by author matching "adam".
#

git log --author=adam --since={1.week.ago} --all --diff-filter=A -p -- some-dir/ |
# lines added
grep -E '^\+' |

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#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=your-username

# -----

film_for_year() {
  output=$(curl -s "http://letterboxd.com/$1/films/diary/year/$2/" | grep -Eo '([0-9]+) films' | grep -Eo '[0-9]+')

  if [ -z "$output" ]; then

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def permissions_string(integer)
  triplet_to_string = lambda { |x, s| x.tr("01", "-#{s}") }

  integer.to_s(2).rjust(9, "0").chars.each_slice(3).map do |r, w, x|
    [
      triplet_to_string[r, "r"],
      triplet_to_string[w, "w"],
      triplet_to_string[x, "x"]
    ].join("")
  end.join("")

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layout: none

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

{% assign feed_url = "http://example.com/feed" %}
{% assign feed_title = "Example Feed" %}
{% assign feed_alternate = "http://example.com/blog" %}
{% assign feed_global_unique_id = "tag:example.com,2013:TOTALLY-RANDOM-STRING-OF-CHARACTERS-GOES-HERE" %}

{% assign feed_author_name = "J. Smith" %}

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//
// Take a user's selected content in the page, as HTML, and
// place it inside a blockquote.
//
// Allows the possibility of automatically converting it
// to Markdown with toMarkdown.
//

// the selection in the document -- Selection object
var sel = document.getSelection();

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/*
 * Save as the URL of a bookmark, and the next time your BT HomeHub takes you to a
 * "problem with your connection" page, click the bookmark to go to the actual URL.
 *
 * This simply grabs the "org_url" parameter out of their error page and visits it.
 *
 * Useful if:
 *
 *   1. You don't want to retype URLs or open tabs repeatedly while checking to see
 *      the connection is up again. Just keep clicking the bookmark.

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require 'benchmark'
 
n = 100_000
mock_methods = ('a'..'z').to_a
 
class Mock
end
 
mock_methods.each do |m|
  Mock.class_eval do

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# an attempt at showing only commits where a single character has been changed.
#
# lots of false positives.

git rev-list --all --no-merges |
while read commit; do
	files_changed=$(git diff $commit^ $commit --name-only | wc -l)
	diffcontent="$(git diff --numstat --minimal -U0 --word-diff=porcelain --word-diff-regex=. $commit^ $commit | grep -e '^\+.$')"

	if [ $files_changed -eq 1 ] && [ $(echo "$diffcontent" | wc -l) -eq 1 ] && [ ! -z "$diffcontent" ]; then

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/*
 * Just a user stylesheet for yoleoreader.com. No affiliation.
 *
 * Author: Adam Prescott (aprescott.com)
 * Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
 */

.article-contents {
    font-family: "Georgia", serif;
    font-size: 1.1em;