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#! /bin/sh
# 
# usat_import
# Created by Ryan Nagle, Chris Groskopf and Brian Boyer
#
# PostgreSQL importer for the pre-processed census files provided to IRE
# members by Paul Overberg and Anthony DeBarros from USA Today.
#
# To get the source files, join IRE (it's cheap!):
# http://www.ire.org/getcensus/

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/*
Our favorite new tool: http://tilemill.com/
See the results here: http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/census-2010/population-change/index.html
*/

@sans-bold:"Arial Bold";

#tracts[name = "Census Tract 9900"] {
  polygon-opacity:0;
}

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First things first...

• Swap Control and Caps Lock in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
• Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/
• iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/
• Oh my zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/
• XCode (from the mac app store)
• XCode command line tools (run XCode, go to Preferences -> Downloads -> Command Line Tools)
• Homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation

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import csv, os.path
import os
import httplib, base64
import getpass

username = raw_input("Username:")
password = getpass.getpass("Password:")
subdomain = raw_input("Subdomain:")
project = raw_input("Project id:")
filename = raw_input("Tickets file:")

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http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=PA_PI&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=AL_TN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=WA_ST&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=NY_NYT&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=PA_PN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=MA_BG&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=VA_POL&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CO_DP&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=IL_CT&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1

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tell application "System Events"
	set frontmostProcess to name of first item of (processes whose frontmost is true)
	tell process frontmostProcess
		tell window 1
			set oldSize to get size
			-- change + to - for shrinking
			-- change 100 to 5 for fine-tune mode
			set newWidth to (item 1 of oldSize) + 100
			set size to {newWidth, item 2 of oldSize}
		end tell

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// visit the remove connections page
// http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections=&goback=%2Econ

//pull up your javascript console

// load jQuery
(function(){
	var newscript = document.createElement('script');
	newscript.type = 'text/javascript';
	newscript.async = true;

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# assumes your file is called mbox (which it is if you export from Mac Mail)
# writes to a file called mbox.csv

import mailbox
import csv

# motherfucking recursion, because email is damn weird.
# each payload can contain many other payloads, which can contain many *other* payloads
# this only exports the text/plain payload, the thing you read
def more_payloads(message):

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Because https://www.medicare.gov/homehealthcompare/ does not provide any way to
# search for providers by their ratings, we've got to do this the hard way.
# Luckily, with csvkit the hard way isn't so hard. Get it here http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/
#
# First, download the data from https://data.medicare.gov/data/home-health-compare
#
curl -o HHCompare_Revised_FlatFiles.zip "https://data.medicare.gov/views/bg9k-emty/files/36e8f3b0-0273-4b46-ba04-89f089678a84?content_type=application%2Fzip%3B%20charset%3Dbinary&filename=HHCompare_Revised_FlatFiles.zip"
#