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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:02PM (#5409823)
dammit - I thought I had decoded gibberish for 5 minutes there ! COuld not work out what I had done wrong.

when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by solarkennedy on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:36PM (#5411869)
Here is some bash kinda:

curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation... | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by mahmoudimus on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:47PM (#5411937)
You should apply. I'm looking for people like you :)
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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by 64bittechie on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:50AM (#5421576)
[email protected]

I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P

Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/366152

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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by argarg on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:07PM (#5409874)
Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.
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Re:How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:21PM (#5410853)
hah!

so much for import base64!!

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