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messiest / bank_holidays.py
Created June 21, 2018 19:56
Pandas calendar for US Bank Holidays
from datetime import datetime
from pandas.tseries.offsets import DateOffset, WeekOfMonth
from pandas.tseries.holiday import sunday_to_monday, AbstractHolidayCalendar, \
Holiday, USMemorialDay, USLaborDay, USColumbusDay, USThanksgivingDay
class BankCalendar(AbstractHolidayCalendar):
rules = [
Holiday("New Year's Day", month=1, day=1, observance=sunday_to_monday),
@aparrish
aparrish / spacy_intro.ipynb
Last active March 14, 2025 21:43
NLP Concepts with spaCy. Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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@joepie91
joepie91 / vpn.md
Last active April 25, 2025 13:58
Don't use VPN services.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

  • A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
  • A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
  • There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.
@0XDE57
0XDE57 / config.md
Last active April 22, 2025 18:51
Firefox about:config privacy settings

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (HTTPS Everywhere No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, Privacy Badger etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

@CMCDragonkai
CMCDragonkai / http_streaming.md
Last active March 14, 2025 01:20
HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

The standard way of understanding the HTTP protocol is via the request reply pattern. Each HTTP transaction consists of a finitely bounded HTTP request and a finitely bounded HTTP response.

However it's also possible for both parts of an HTTP 1.1 transaction to stream their possibly infinitely bounded data. The advantages is that the sender can send data that is beyond the sender's memory limit, and the receiver can act on

<#
.SYNOPSIS
Resize an image
.DESCRIPTION
Resize an image based on a new given height or width or a single dimension and a maintain ratio flag.
The execution of this CmdLet creates a new file named "OriginalName_resized" and maintains the original
file extension
.PARAMETER Width
The new width of the image. Can be given alone with the MaintainRatio flag
.PARAMETER Height
@chrisjhoughton
chrisjhoughton / wait-global.js
Created December 10, 2013 13:02
Wait for a global variable to exist on the page.
var waitForGlobal = function(key, callback) {
if (window[key]) {
callback();
} else {
setTimeout(function() {
waitForGlobal(key, callback);
}, 100);
}
};
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active April 30, 2025 05:50
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@desandro
desandro / require-js-discussion.md
Created January 31, 2013 20:26
Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.