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# http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

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defaults: &defaults
    adapter: postgresql
    encoding: utf8
    username: username 
    password: password
    host: localhost
    pool: 10

development:
  database: application_name_development

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Norman Schur's 1000 Most Important Words

This is Norman Schur's list of the 1,000 "most important" words. There are actually 1,019 here because of those that are similarly spelled, opposites of one another, etc. I've gone through and marked with asterisks the ones (*) that I'm somewhat uncomfortable with (177 of these), as in I'd be slightly apprehensive if you challenged me to pinpoint their meaning, and the ones (**) that I'm basically clueless about (26 of these). I feel roughly fluent with the rest.
abashed
*abate
abdicate
aberrant
abominate
abrasive
abrogate

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Name generating code
# Copyright (c) 2010 Ninite.com
#
# Released into the public domain - enjoy!
#
# Story at http://blog.ninite.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-named-by-a-computer-program

from datetime import datetime, date

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require 'open3'

class RbST
  
  @@executable_path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "rst2parts"))
  @@executables = {
    :html  => File.join(@@executable_path, "rst2html.py"),
    :latex => File.join(@@executable_path, "rst2latex.py")
  }
  

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require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
include Nokogiri

class PostCallbacks < XML::SAX::Document
  def start_element(element, attributes)
    puts "start element: #{element}"
    puts "attributes: #{attributes.inspect}"
  end

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# Library of Congress Main Classes and Subclasses
{
  "A" => { 
    :name => "General Works",
    :subclasses => {
      "AC"   => "Collections; Series; Collected works",
      "AE"   => "Encyclopedias",
      "AG"   => "Dictionaries and other general reference works",
      "AI"   => "Indexes",
      "AM"   => "Museums. Collectors and collecting",

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# http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ascii_8bits.html

ISO_639_2 = [
  ["aar", "", "aa", "Afar", "afar"],
  ["abk", "", "ab", "Abkhazian", "abkhaze"],
  ["ace", "", "", "Achinese", "aceh"],
  ["ach", "", "", "Acoli", "acoli"],
  ["ada", "", "", "Adangme", "adangme"],
  ["ady", "", "", "Adyghe; Adygei", "adyghé"],
  ["afa", "", "", "Afro-Asiatic languages", "afro-asiatiques, langues"],

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- ruby -*-
require 'rubygems'
require 'daemon-spawn'

RAILS_ROOT = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..'))

class DelayedJobWorker < DaemonSpawn::Base
  def start(args)
    ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= args.first || 'development'

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# smoother space switching animations for snow leopard

$ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 0