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LinkedIn - People I don't know

Current date: 2016-08-23

I'm one of those people who still holds on to the hope that LinkedIn is a good idea. I check in daily and check all the areas I've been trained to look at on most social media sites.

The thing that annoys me about LinkedIn is the "People you may know" page. That long list of your contacts' third cousins, college buddies, and other total strangers. They've designed the page so that you'll accidentally click on one of those strangers, causing an embarrasing incident.

"I'm not really interested in hiring a life-coach at my company right now. Sorry to get your hopes up."

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# an example of connecting to a SQL Server database using Python 3
	# automatically closes the db connection after use

	import pyodbc
	from contextlib import contextmanager

	# pyodbc wiki: https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/wiki
	# example based on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/python/pyodbc/step-3-proof-of-concept-connecting-to-sql-using-pyodbc?view=sql-server-ver15

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# viewGoogleMaps.py
	# author: Ken Doman (github.com/raykendo)
	# purpose: Looking up addresses through Google Maps automagically
	# requirements: python 2 or 3, selenium for python

	from selenium import webdriver
	from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
	from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
	from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

	(function () {

	// ajax function from https://gist.github.com/Xeoncross/7663273
	function ajax(url, callback, data, x) {
	try {
	x = new (this.XMLHttpRequest \|\| ActiveXObject)("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");
	x.open(data ? "POST" : "GET", url, 1);
	x.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
	x.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
	x.onreadystatechange = function () {

	(function () {
	//source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values-in-javascript
	// modified to also check hash
	function getParameterByName(name, url) {
	if (!url) url = window.location.href;
	name = name.replace(/[\[\]]/g, "\\$&");
	var regex = new RegExp("[?#&]" + name + "(=([^&#]*)\|&\|#\|$)"),
	results = regex.exec(url);
	if (!results) return null;
	if (!results[2]) return '';

-#!/usr/bin/env python
-#
-# delete-stuff2.py: delete specific files and folders within subdirectories of a folder.
-# by raykendo
-# Python 2.7+
-#
-import os
-import stat
-import sys

	(function () {
	"use strict";

	//...

	/**
	* defining {object} point
	* @property {number} x - x coordinate for the point.
	* @property {number} y - y coordinate for the point.
	*/

	/**
	* Some people just need a paper map. ArcGIS Server provides a service to turn a web map into an image, pdf, or other file
	* The process to generate these documents can be long and intensive (in relative web terms), taking up to 2 minutes to generate
	* a document.
	*/
	/* globals: define*/
	define([
	"dojo/_base/lang",
	"dojo/_base/array",
	"dojo/json",

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<title>Mapillary-JS + ArcGIS JSAPI 4.x example</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/mapillary-js.min.css">
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://js.arcgis.com/4.0/esri/css/main.css">
	<script type="text/javascript">
	dojoConfig = {
	async: true,