Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.
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I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction | |
ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to | |
make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it | |
because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how | |
nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand | |
adventure. | |
Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy | |
into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of | |
mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much |
I was looking for ways to scrape forex data after fixer.io switched to a subscription model with rate-limiting, making their API useless for lots of queries.
One alternative API which is still free is https://exchangeratesapi.io/
It's basically a drop-in replacement for fixer.io and can be used to get all forex rates in json format at
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#! /usr/bin/env ruby | |
# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater. | |
# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from | |
# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download. | |
# | |
# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each. | |
# | |
# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created |
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#!/bin/sh | |
result="$(emacsclient --eval "(progn $@)")" | |
if [ "$result" = "nil" ] || [ -z "$result" ]; then | |
exit 1 | |
else | |
echo "$result" | |
exit 0 | |
fi |
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{ | |
"bridge": { | |
"name": "Homebridge", | |
"username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30", | |
"port": 51826, | |
"pin": "123-45-678" | |
}, | |
"description": "This file configures support for Nest, TP-Link Devices and HarmonyHub Remote.", | |
"platforms": [ | |
{ |
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#!/bin/bash | |
# *** Copy this file to /root/.homebridge *** | |
# This file gets executed as root, so you can use it to | |
# install or update any plugin dependencies. | |
# See https://github.com/marcoraddatz/homebridge-docker#installsh | |
npm update -g n |
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import Foundation | |
import SceneKit | |
public enum BinarySTLParser { | |
public enum STLError: Error { | |
case fileTooSmall(size: Int) | |
case unexpectedFileSize(expected: Int, actual: Int) | |
case triangleCountMismatch(diff: Int) | |
} | |
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# Generate a BaseSystem.dmg with 10.13 Install Packages | |
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.13\ Beta.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/highsierra | |
hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J | |
hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build | |
asr restore -source /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.13\ Beta.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase | |
cp -R /Volumes/highsierra/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation | |
hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/ | |
hdiutil detach /Volumes/highsierra/ | |
mv /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg |
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