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sammachin / gist:4648722

Last active December 11, 2015 19:28

Convert an amount into the smallest number of notes & coins, currently written for British Currency but should be easy to modify

	def toCash(amount):
	pounds,pence = divmod(amount, 1)
	pounds = int(pounds)
	pence = pence*100
	pence = int(round(pence))
	notes = [50, 20, 10, 5, 1] #These are the whole amounts Yes I know the £1 & £2 are coins in the UK!
	coins = [50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1] #These are the less than whole amounts eg the pence
	for note in notes:
	count = pounds / note
	if count >= 1:

sammachin / gist:5347517

Last active December 16, 2015 00:29

Python function to normalise a UK dialed number into an e.164 number

	def normalise(number):
	if re.match("^00.*", number):
	return number.lstrip("0")
	elif re.match("^0[1-9].*", number):
	return "44" + number.lstrip("0")
	elif re.match("^\+44.*", number)
	return number.lstrip("+")
	else:
	return number

sammachin / limit.js

Created June 22, 2013 17:23

Rate limiting in javascript, ideal for things like watch location

	var timer = false;

	function doSomething(){
	if (timer == false){
	console.log("DOING SOMETHING");
	timer = true;
	console.log("Timer is set")
	setTimeout(function(){timer = false;
	console.log("Timer is clear")
	},10000);

sammachin / gist:7888612

Last active December 30, 2015 21:39

Selecting and then adding a specific number to a Tropo application

	(Examples written using httpie as a command line tool)

	username and password are the values you use on the tropo web portal

	Request a selection of avalible numbers for a given city prefix in this case 415 (San Francisco)

	http --auth username:password GET http://api.tropo.com/addresses available==1 prefix==1415

	This will return a JSON object as below that contains a selection of avalible numbers

sammachin / gist:8298386

Created January 7, 2014 12:07

Hack the CES Scavenger hunt ;-) You'll need a recent mac with BT4.0 running mavericks, and a copy of bleacon (npm install bleacon) start the scavenger hunt, then run this script and sit back.

	#! /usr/bin/env node

	var Bleacon = require('bleacon');
	var uuid = '842AF9C408F511E39282F23C91AEC05E';
	var major = 65000;
	var measuredPower = -59;

	function myLoop(){
	setTimeout(function () {
	Bleacon.stopAdvertising();

sammachin / getquota.py

Created February 10, 2014 10:15

AAISP GET Quota, snippet to get your remaining quota from Andrews & Arnolds 'clueless' server in python, needs requests & beautifulsoup4 modules

	import requests
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	aauser = 'xx99@a'
	aapass = 'xxxxx'

	def getQuota():
	r = requests.get('https://clueless.aa.net.uk/main.cgi', auth=(aauser, aapass))
	soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)
	qstring = soup.find_all('table')[1].find('tbody').find_all('td')[5].find('a').string

sammachin / mo_sms.py

Last active January 21, 2017 21:31

Simple MO SMS HTTP Server for A&A SIP2SIM

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import SimpleHTTPServer
	import SocketServer
	import logging
	import cgi

	PORT = 8001
	I = '0.0.0.0'

sammachin / gist:958cede864ab2230acd2

Created May 29, 2014 19:00

R&D Tax Credits

	Here is a hypothetical example I don't know if this is legal and correct but this is my idea.

	Sam Systems Ltd. earns £10k from consulting work for Acme Mega Corp.

	As SS is VAT registered on the flat rate scheme eh invoices 12K and pays £1680 of that to HMRC as VAT

	He then takes the remaining £10320 and invests that in R&D of a prototype new product as follows:

	He spends 2 months of his time building a back end system paying himself a minimal salary of £663/month

sammachin / setup.py

Created August 7, 2014 11:29

Setup The

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import requests #we're going to use the requests library for a nice HTTP
	import json #and the JSON library for parsing the data

sammachin / fetch.py

Last active November 27, 2016 22:30

Fetch data from the ONS API

	# We need to specify our api key here to use in the request
	apikey = "XXXXXX"

	#Now we'll setup the base url for the ons API
	baseurl = "http://data.ons.gov.uk/ons/api/data/dataset/"

	# We need to specify the dataset we are after, in this case its just the split of gender
	dataset = "QS104EW"

	#And pass in some of our parameters

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