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{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Paul Colby",
    "label": "Technology Leader",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+61 417 717 669",
    "summary": "With more than 20 years experience in software engineering and technical leadership, I've worked successfully at all levels of software delivery, from bare metal software engineering, to architecting large-scale high-throughput low-latency cloud-based systems; building and leading high-performance teams, to complete management of a SaaS startup's IT.\n\nIn all that I do, I strive to deliver quality solutions, with a strong sense of ownership. I value open and transparent communication, with genuine care for the both the business and the people I work with.",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",

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Fresh [L]Ubuntu

Just some notes on things I like (or need) to do to make a fresh Ubuntu (or Lubuntu) install usable ;)

Basics

sudo apt install arandr build-essential colordiff curl fonts-noto-color-emoji \
  gawk gpa hunspell-en-au jq keepassxc lcov solaar ssh

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--- /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/awslogs/core.py.backup       2017-05-25 06:51:39.360136000 +1000
+++ /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/awslogs/core.py      2018-02-07 10:11:08.695686691 +1100
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
 
 
 def milis2iso(milis):
-    res = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(milis/1000.0).isoformat()
-    return (res + ".000")[:23] + 'Z'
+    #res = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(milis/1000.0).isoformat()
+    #return (res + ".000")[:23] + 'Z'

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Options built-in, by default, to most Qt-based applications.

QApplication

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qapplication.html#QApplication https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/src/widgets/kernel/qapplication.cpp#L449

-qdevel (obsolete)
--qmljsdebugger 

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C++ Style

• Chromium
• Google
• LLVM
• Mozilla
• Qt
• WebKit

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <!--
<match>
 <test name="family"><string>sans-serif</string></test>
 <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
  <string>Noto Color Emoji</string>
 </edit>
</match>

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#!/bin/bash

DEVICE=/dev/cdrom

DD=`which dd`           || { echo 'Required command not found: dd'      >&2; exit 1; }
ISOINFO=`which isoinfo` || { echo 'Required command not found: isoinfo' >&2; exit 1; }
SED=`which sed`         || { echo 'Required command not found: sed'     >&2; exit 1; }

LABEL=`"$ISOINFO" -d -i "$DEVICE" | "$SED" -nre 's/^Volume id: //p'`
BLOCK_SIZE=`"$ISOINFO" -d -i "$DEVICE" | "$SED" -nre 's/^Logical block size is: //p'`

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sudo sed -re 's/.*((\w{5}-){4}\w{5}).*/\1\n/' /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

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#!/bin/bash

COLLECTIONS_DIR=~/.kodi/addons/screensaver.video/resources/collections
VIDEOS_DIR=~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/screensaver.video/videos

while IFS= read -d '' -r COLLECTION; do
  echo "$COLLECTION"
  VIDEOS=`awk 'BEGIN{FS="[<>]";OFS="|"}{if($2=="filename")FILENAME=$3;if($2=="primary")print FILENAME,$3}' "$COLLECTION"`
  for VIDEO in ${VIDEOS[@]}; do
    FILENAME=`echo "$VIDEO" | cut -d'|' -f1`

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// Usage: QCOMPARE(PrintableVariant(v1), PrintableVariant(v2));
// Note, QTest will still limit output to 1024 chars in QTestResult::compare

class PrintableVariant : public QVariant {
public: PrintableVariant(const QVariant &other) : QVariant(other) { }
};

namespace QTest {
    template<> char *toString(const PrintableVariant &variant){
        QString string;