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beng / generate-schema.py

Created July 27, 2020 19:58

	column_pairs = [
	# datatype, expected, given
	("string", "fax","Fax"),
	("string", "email", "Email"),
	("string", "company_name","Company"),
	("string", "company_street_address", "Company Address"),
	("string", "company_street_addres_2","Company Address 2"),
	("string", "company_city", "Company City"),
	("string", "company_state", "Company State"),
	("string", "company_zip", "Company Zip"),

beng / mixcloud-downloader.py

Last active March 16, 2018 16:23

find the URL required to download a song from mixcloud

	"""
	Download songs from mixcloud
	Usage: python mixcloud-downloader.py <url to song>

	Example (download a single song):

	$ python mixcloud-downloader.py https://www.mixcloud.com/gridface/756-farleydave03-wbmx-chicago-1984-85/

	Advanced example (download multiple songs):

beng / elastic-ingest.sh

Last active April 28, 2016 16:46

fast elastic writes from @adkatrit (github.com/adkatrit)

	#!/bin/bash

	# fast elastic writes from @adkatrit (http://github.com/adkatrit)

	INDEX=$1
	ES_SOCKET=$2

	#Create index
	curl -XPUT "$ES_SOCKET/$INDEX/"

beng / worst-javascript-joke.md

Last active March 14, 2016 18:59

worst javascript joke ever made. credit goes to jeff knupp (https://jeffknupp.com/)

worst javascript joke ever made. credit goes to jeff knupp

> Manager: Hey developer! Our front end is all messed up! People are seeing each other’s account information!
> Employee: Really? Let me just check the CoffeeScript files
> Manager: Too late! The police are here!
> Police Officer: OK, does someone want to let me know want transpiled here?

beng / try.sh

Last active February 9, 2016 15:40

Credit for this script goes to Isaac (.ike) Levy [email protected]

	#############################################################################
	# Credit for this script goes to Isaac (.ike) Levy [email protected] #
	#############################################################################

	#!/bin/sh

	yell() { echo "$0: $*" >&2; }
	die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; }
	try() { "$@" \|\| die "cannot $*"; }

beng / oregon.bas

Created November 24, 2015 23:04 — forked from fogus/oregon.bas

1975 version of Oregon Trail

	8 REM MINNESOTA EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONSORTIUM STAFF
	9 REM PROGRAMMING REVISIONS BY DON RAWITSCH - 1975
	11 REM CURRENT VERSION - 3/27/75
	15 REM FOR THE MEANING OF THE VARIABLES USED, LIST LINES 4900-4960
	25 PRINT "DO YOU NEED INSTRUCTIONS (YES/NO)";
	30 DIM C$[5]
	35 INPUT C$
	40 IF C$="NO" THEN 400
	45 PRINT LIN(2)
	59 REM *INSTRUCTIONS*

beng / impbcopy.m

Last active September 4, 2018 07:03 — forked from kenkeiter/impbcopy.m

	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Copied from http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=3816
	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
	#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
	#import <unistd.h>
	BOOL copy_to_clipboard(NSString *path)
	{
	// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681630/how-to-read-png-image-to-nsimage
	NSImage * image;

beng / reconfigure-keyboard.sh

Created January 20, 2015 16:27

command to reconfigure your keyboard in ubuntu server

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

beng / solution.py

Last active November 5, 2015 15:13 — forked from isa/gist:2571012

	Question: Convert following into the latter data structure in less than 30 lines:

	List:
	A, B, C
	A, C, E
	E, F, D
	D, A, J
	E, D, J

	List

beng / apt-get-history.sh

Created December 2, 2014 21:03

A way to find all the stuff you manually installed on ubuntu via apt-get as found here: http://askubuntu.com/a/250530

(zcat $( ls -tr /var/log/apt/history.log*.gz ) ; cat /var/log/apt/history.log ) | egrep '^(Start-Date:|Commandline:)' | grep -v aptdaemon | egrep '^Commandline:'

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