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int unbiased_random_bit() {    
    int x1, x2, prev;
    prev = 2;
    x1 = rand() % 2;
    x2 = rand() % 2;

    for (;; x1 = rand() % 2, x2 = rand() % 2)
    {
        if (x1 ^ x2)      // 01 -> 1, or 10 -> 0.
        {

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LIBVIPS_FULL_VERSION=7.40.2
LIBVIPS_MAJOR_VERSION=echo $LIBVIPS_VERSION | sed 's/v//g' | sed 's/[^.]*$//' | sed 's/[.| ]*$//g'
curl -o vips-build.tar.gz  http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/$LIBVIPS_MAJOR_VERSION/vips-$LIBVIPS_FULL_VERSION.tar.gz
mkdir vips-build && tar -xf vips-build.tar.gz -C vips-build --strip-components=1
cd vips-build
./configure
make && sudo make install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib

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esc: exit current user input context.

shift+/: open help modal

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←: move left

→: move right

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#!/usr/bin/python2.7
import subprocess
import os
import sys
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

with NamedTemporaryFile('w', delete=False) as fout:
	fout.write('import sys; print sys.stdin')
	
print subprocess.check_output(['python2.7', fout.name], stdin=sys.stdin)

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class ErrorHandler (logging.Handler):
	def __init__(self):
		logging.Handler.__init__(self)
		self.lock = multiprocessing.Lock()
		self.errorLogMessages = list()
	def emit (self, record):
		print record
		self.lock.acquire()
		print "lock acquired"
		try:

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Compiling/Installing Node 0.8.4 (and Python 2.6, required by Node) on CentOS 5

Update system packages -- will migrate system forward to CentOS 5.8. (Optional?)

$ sudo yum update

Install the EPEL Repo:

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uglify: {
      development: {
        options: {
          banner: '/*! Development <%= pkg.name %> <%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> */\n',
          mangle: false,
          compress: false,
          preserveComments: 'all',
          beautify: true
        },
        all: {

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from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFilter

pageImage = Image.open('sample.tiff')
pageImage = pageImage.convert('L')
pageImage.info['compression']='raw'
pageImage=pageImage.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(4))
pageImage.save('/out/sample.tiff')

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import custom_logger
import logging
import logging.handlers


class Runner ():
	def __init__(self):
		pass
	def run(self):
		#logging.basicConfig(filename="Task.log",filemode='w', fmt = '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(module)s - %(message)s',datefmt = '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p', level=logging.DEBUG)

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app.post('/postParams/:message/:description/:id', function(){
console.dir(req.query);
});

//nothing happens when trying to query 
//http://localhost:8080/postParams?message=hello&description=desc&id=1