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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Small desktop app for viewing the webcam at http://tjeld.uib.no/
# Written in Shoes. Works on at least Linux and OSX,
# should be fine on Windows as well.

require "open-uri"

INTERVAL = 10
WIDTH = 240

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# In Ruby 1.8
irb(main):008:0> "" + Errno::ENOENT.new
=> "No such file or directory"

irb(main):009:0> "" + Errno::ENOENT.new.to_s
=> "No such file or directory"

# In Ruby 1.9
irb(main):002:0> "" + Errno::ENOENT.new
TypeError: can't convert Errno::ENOENT into String

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namespace :heroku do
  desc "Populates the .gems manifest file, to be used with Heroku"
  task :gems => :environment do
    File.open(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ".gems"), "w") do |f|
      Rails.configuration.gems.each do |dep|
        f.puts dep.send(:install_command)[1..-1].join(' ')
      end
    end
  end
end

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#!/usr/bin/zsh

# -*- Abstract -*-
# Backup the database from your Heroku webapp. 7 day rotating daily backup,
# stores a weekly copy every week (on sundays).
#
# The latest version of this script is available from http://gist.github.com/111804
# Code by Bjørn Arild Mæland [github.com/Chrononaut]
#
# -*- Requirements and usage -*-

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Simple algorithm for clustering WordNet synsets. Requires Python 2.5 or 2.6,
# in addition to the NLTK toolkit which is available at http://www.nltk.org/.

import nltk
from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
from nltk.corpus import wordnet_ic

def cluster_senses(word, treshold = 0.30,

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require "yaml"

# Parser for Debian Control Files (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html)
# Piggybacks on the stdlib YAML parser, so this only works as long as there is a
# space after the field names (this is a stated DCF convention). You'll encounter problems if
# there are unescaped colons in the values.
#
# I've also built a full Treetop grammar for DCF: http://github.com/Chrononaut/treetop-dcf

module Dcf

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# Copy `n Paste from IRB, based on http://judofyr.net/posts/copy-paste-irb.html
# Requires xclip for clipboard interaction. Stick in .irbrc:
def copy(str)
  IO.popen('xclip -i', 'w') { |f| f << str.to_s }
end

def paste
  `xclip -o`
end

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# lib/github_gem.rb
module Rails
  class Configuration
    def github_gem(name, options = {})
      options[:source] = 'http://gems.github.com'
      options[:lib] = name.sub(/[^-]+-/, '') unless options.has_key?(:lib)
      self.gem(name, options)
    end
  end
end

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import nltk

## Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
## Available from the Gutenberg Project:
## http://www.gutenberg.org/files/74/74.txt
reader = nltk.corpus.reader.PlaintextCorpusReader('.', 'twain-tomsawyer.txt')
words = reader.words('twain-tomsawyer.txt') # List of all the words in the text

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## Usage:
## db <- Database("http://208.78.99.54:5984/", "packages")
##
## Insert(key, value, db)
##
## Note that values are automatically converted to JSON.

source("curr.R")

# The DB is created if it doesnt exist