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@nifl
nifl / grok_vi.mdown
Created August 29, 2011 17:23
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

Answer by Jim Dennis on Stack Overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank text into the anonymous copy buffer (or "register" as it's called in vi).

The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a simple statement which is, essentially, an abbreviation for 0 y$:

0 go to the beginning of this line. y yank from here (up to where?)

@anhqle
anhqle / animated-choropleth.R
Last active March 28, 2017 03:44
[ggplot2, animation] Create animated choropleth map
rm(list=ls())
toInstall <- c("ggplot2", "maptools", "animation", "rgdal")
lapply(toInstall, library, character.only=TRUE)
# Load and clean World Governance Indicators (WGI) data
# Can be downloaded here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18955935/wgi_final.RData
# Most of the cleaning involving matching World Bank naming system with that of the map
load('./data/wgi_cleaned.RData')
# Load world map shape file (Google "TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3")
@atsuya046
atsuya046 / jsonToSqlite.py
Created December 14, 2013 09:09
create sqlite database file from json file
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
import json
import sqlite3
JSON_FILE = "some.json"
DB_FILE = "some.db"
traffic = json.load(open(JSON_FILE))
conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_FILE)
@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active August 4, 2025 04:32
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@jakebrinkmann
jakebrinkmann / connect_psycopg2_to_pandas.py
Created July 3, 2017 14:19
Read SQL query from psycopg2 into pandas dataframe
import pandas as pd
import pandas.io.sql as sqlio
import psycopg2
conn = psycopg2.connect("host='{}' port={} dbname='{}' user={} password={}".format(host, port, dbname, username, pwd))
sql = "select count(*) from table;"
dat = sqlio.read_sql_query(sql, conn)
conn = None