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skagedal / test_pickRandom.html

Created January 29, 2012 22:19

Speed testing and "fair coin" testing for pickRandom

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="underscore.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	function time(s, f) {
	start = new Date();
	f();
	end = new Date();
	$("#speedtest").append(s + ": " + String(end - start) + " ms<br />");

skagedal / underscore-pickrandom.js

Created January 31, 2012 11:22

pickRandom mixin for underscore

	// underscore-pickrandom.js
	// (c) 2012 Simon Kågedal Reimer
	// This file is freely distributable under the MIT license.

	// _.pickRandom - a mixin for underscore.js.
	//
	// Pick random elements from an array. Works similar to
	// `_.first(_.shuffle(array, n))`, but is more efficient -- operates
	// in time proportional to `n` rather than the length of the whole
	// array.

skagedal / puzzle.py

Created December 27, 2012 16:08

Solves a 3D wooden puzzle thing we got for christmas.

	# Script to solve a wooden 3D puzzle thing someone got for christmas.
	# Two-colored tiles should be placed in layers so that no color appears twice
	# in each layer or in each column.
	#
	# Outputs:
	#We have a solution!
	# Pink ,Red Orange,Yellow Grey ,Green
	#Blue ,Yellow Pink ,Green Grey ,Orange
	# Blue ,Grey Pink ,Orange Green ,Red
	#Orange,Red Yellow,Grey Pink ,Blue

skagedal / test_gst010_gobject.py

Created May 31, 2013 22:06

Test case for broken GStreamer 0.10 with PyGObject

	#!/usr/bin/python

	"""From https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631901#c7 but with
	some bug fixes. Should print message objects, but on GStreamer 0.10,
	just prints None."""

	from gi.repository import GObject
	GObject.threads_init()

	from gi.repository import Gst

skagedal / bug.vala

Last active December 19, 2015 10:59

Vala bug

	/*
	* With Vala 0.20.1 from Ubuntu PPA, this gives no errors or warnings on "vala test.vala -C",
	* but gives C code that doesn't compile:

	/home/simon/bug.vala.c: In function ‘_vala_main’:
	/home/simon/bug.vala.c:76:2: error: initializer element is not constant
	/home/simon/bug.vala.c:76:2: error: (near initialization for ‘foos[0].s’)

	*/
	struct Foo {

skagedal / mmongo.rb

Created April 11, 2015 20:17

mmongo in ruby

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# mmongo: An alternative to "meteor mongo" that lets you pass any
	# arguments to mongo after the -- argument, as in:
	# mmongo myapp.meteor.com -- myfile.js
	#
	# I rewrote this with more features in JavaScript with Node.js:
	# https://github.com/skagedal/mmongo

	require 'uri'

skagedal / uilabel-trace.py

Created June 20, 2015 21:07

Plot of error in UILabel's vertical entering

	#
	# See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30759598/how-does-uilabel-vertically-center-its-text/30910504#30910504
	#

	import re
	import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot

	input = open("trace-output.txt").read()
	entries = input.split("=====")

skagedal / scrape.py

Last active December 29, 2015 17:54

Libris Downloader

	from urllib.request import urlopen

	counter = 1

	while True:
	url = 'http://libris.kb.se/xsearch?d=swepub&hitlist&q=l%C3%A4ros%C3%A4te%3agu&f=ext&spell=true&hist=true&n=200&start=' + str(counter)
	print ("Fetching: " + url)
	data = urlopen(url).read()
	if not data.find(b"<record>") >= 0:
	print("No more records!")

skagedal / swepubjsonparser.py

Last active December 30, 2015 08:38 — forked from christopherkullenberg/swepubjsonparser.py

	import json
	import re
	from os import listdir

	def fix_escapes(string):
	# Libris over-escapes some backslashes.
	string = string.replace("\\\\\"","\\\"")
	# Libris fails to properly escape backslashes in strings, which occurs for example with inline
	# LaTeX codes like "$\geq" which should be escaped as "$\\geq". They do seem to properly
	# escape quote chars, however. Now, we can't easily know whethera string liike "\n" should be

skagedal / swepubscraper.py

Created December 29, 2015 22:50 — forked from christopherkullenberg/swepubscraper.py

	from urllib.request import urlopen

	counter = 1

	while True:
	url = 'http://libris.kb.se/xsearch?d=swepub&hitlist&q=l%C3%A4ros%C3%A4te%3agu&f=ext&spell=true&hist=true&n=200&format=json&start=' + str(counter)
	print ("Fetching: " + url)
	data = urlopen(url).read()
	if not data.find(b'"identifier"') >= 0:
	print("No more records!")

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