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How to add syntax-highlighted code to PowerPoint slides (Mac OS)

pygmentize -f rtf FILE | pbcopy
Paste into TextEdit (in rich text mode: Format → Make Rich Text before pasting), and copy to clipboard again.
In PowerPoint, Edit → Paste Special… → Styled Text.

(Pasting RTF directly into PowerPoint doesn't work correctly, at least with PowerPoint 2008 — it extends colour spans longer than it should, and sometimes removes line breaks. Going via TextEdit seems to solve the problem.)

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

	require 'fileutils'
	# An OS X System Service for quickly filing image files to a Jekyll blog folder,
	# putting Markdown links to the files on the clipboard.
	# Copyright Brett Terpstra 2013

	# Config
	# ======
	# Where to store the images
	base_path = '~/Sites/dev/octopress/source/uploads/'

	#!/bin/bash

	HOSTSFILE="/etc/hosts"
	BAKFILE="$HOSTSFILE.bak"
	DOMAINREGEX="^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+$"
	IPREGEX="^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$"
	URLREGEX="^https?:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9\/\.\-]+$"

	backup()
	{

	#!/bin/bash
	##
	## A simple little shell script that will return the current
	## fingerprint on the SSL certificate. It's crude but works :D
	##
	## Author: Bob Saska (r35krag0th) <[email protected]>

	openssl s_client -connect tuner.pandora.com:443 < /dev/null 2> /dev/null \| \
	openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint \| tr -d ':' \| cut -d'=' -f2

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	import array
	import time
	import socket
	import hashlib
	import sys
	from select import select
	import re
	import logging
	from threading import Thread
	import signal

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'.','')
	require 'webrick'
	require 'cgi'
	require 'stringio'

	$cgi_input = nil

	class CGI
	def stdoutput