sgillies

windscribe-connect-usable.sh

# Script that tries to find a windscribe vpn server with decent speeds
# Requires the windscribe command line client, and the speedtest.net
# python cli from here: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli


#!/bin/bash

windscribe disconnect

speed=`speedtest --simple |grep -i download | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

bpj

#!/usr/bin/env perl

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    pandoc -f opml -t markdown --atx-headers [PANDOC OPTIONS] input.opml \
    | perl md-head2dl.pl [OPTIONS] > output.md

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Massage Markdown converted with Pandoc L<http://pandoc.org> from OPML exported from Dynalist <https://dynalist.io>.

wboykinm

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

This is an anchor-linked version of the excellent, amazing original opus magnum by Michael Tandy.

An address will start with, or at least include, a building number.

Counterexample: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom.

When there is a building number, it will be all-numeric.

Counterexample: 1A Egmont Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 2HT

manugarri

bsweger

Useful Pandas Snippets

A personal diary of DataFrame munging over the years.

Data Types and Conversion

Convert Series datatype to numeric (will error if column has non-numeric values)
(h/t @makmanalp)

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

iamatypeofwalrus

What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

• An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
• One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
• With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
• Anaconda for Python.
• Coffee/Beer/Time

jgomezdans

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Thu Nov  3 11:56:48 2011

The main program. The program takes 3 files as input:
    
    #. The red band (any GDAL-compatible format will do)
    #. the near-infrarred band (again as above)
    #. An output file name