Guillaume 'Llew' Delpierre gdelpierre

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

/screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
/ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
/prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

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

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

	I turned this gist into a "real" repository. It is here: http://github.com/pete/cats .


	Here, placed side-by-side for comparison, are GNU's implementation of
	cat, Plan 9's implementation, Busybox's implementation, and NetBSD's
	implementation, Seventh Edition Unix (1979), and 4.3BSD.

	For good measure (and because I suppose I am now committed to collecting
	cats) also included are Second Edition Unix (in assembly) and Inferno's
	implementation (in Limbo) for good measure.


	" =============================================================================
	" Miller Medeiros .vimrc file
	" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	" heavily inspired by: @factorylabs, @scrooloose, @nvie, @gf3, @bit-theory, ...
	" =============================================================================


	" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	" BEHAVIOR

	#!/usr/bin/env python -
	"""
	Example usage:
	$ f=`cat test.json`; echo -e "$f"; python validate_json.py "$f"
	{
	"foo": true,
	"bar": false,
	baz: -23
	}
	Invalid JSON


	#
	# Slightly tighter CORS config for nginx
	#
	# A modification of https://gist.github.com/1064640/ to include a white-list of URLs
	#
	# Despite the W3C guidance suggesting that a list of origins can be passed as part of
	# Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, several browsers (well, at least Firefox)
	# don't seem to play nicely with this.
	#

	file_to_disk = './tmp/large_disk.vdi'

	Vagrant::Config.run do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = 'base'

	config.vm.customize ['createhd', '--filename', file_to_disk, '--size', 500 * 1024]
	config.vm.customize ['storageattach', :id, '--storagectl', 'SATA Controller', '--port', 1, '--device', 0, '--type', 'hdd', '--medium', file_to_disk]
	end