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edsu / pizza.txt
Last active February 3, 2018 21:31
An example of looking up Pizza in Wikidata, to see the equivalent entities on other Wikipedias using the wggetentities call in the Wikidata API http://wikidata.org/w/api.php. The use of python as a filter on the end of curl is just to pretty print the JSON. You can obviously leave it off if you don't have Python available. In response to https:/…
curl "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=itwiki&titles=Pizza&format=json" | python -mjson.tool
{
"entities": {
"q177": {
"descriptions": {
"de": {
"language": "de",
"value": "Gericht"
},
"en": {
@jsoverson
jsoverson / device.css
Created February 15, 2013 20:06
Quick css hacks to target android/ios
.visible-android {
display:none;
}
.visible-ios {
display:none;
}
.on-device .visible-android, .on-device .visible-android {
display:inherit;
}
.device-ios .visible-android {
@dantman
dantman / gevent-stompest-pingpong.py
Created April 2, 2013 07:06
Ping-Pong STOMP server. Demonstrating stompest with gevent.
import logging, gevent
from gevent import monkey
from stompest.config import StompConfig
from stompest.protocol import StompSpec
from stompest.sync import Stomp
## Ideally this code (or something like it) would work without the following two lines
monkey.patch_socket()
monkey.patch_select()
@marianposaceanu
marianposaceanu / linux_performance.md
Last active May 25, 2024 11:30
Linux simple performance tweaks

Linux simple performance tweaks

Change the I/O Scheduler

Open $ vim /etc/default/grub then add elevator=noop next to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Run $ update-grub and $ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler to be sure that noop is being used:

$ vim /etc/default/grub
$ update-grub
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

[noop] deadline cfq

@mrprompt
mrprompt / ExportSQLite.grt.lua
Created October 31, 2013 15:49
MySQL WorkBench Plugin to export database to SQLite
-- ExportSQLite: SQLite export plugin for MySQL Workbench
-- Copyright (C) 2009 Thomas Henlich
--
-- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-- (at your option) any later version.
--
-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@dragolabs
dragolabs / ubunru-rsyslog-hack.sh
Last active August 18, 2017 16:35
Hack to repair 100% CPU load by rsyslog on ubuntu 12.04 in openvz
#!/bin/sh
service rsyslog stop
sed -i -e 's/^\$ModLoad imklog/#\$ModLoad imklog/g' /etc/rsyslog.conf
service rsyslog start
/**
* Retrieves all the rows in the active spreadsheet that contain data and logs the
* values for each row.
* For more information on using the Spreadsheet API, see
* https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_spreadsheet
*/
function readRows() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
@nolanlawson
nolanlawson / rant.md
Last active March 1, 2023 23:34
Misconceptions about PouchDB

Misconceptions about PouchDB

A quick rant.

  1. PouchDB is slow, because it doesn't use bare-metal IndexedDB

OK, first off I want to point out the CanIUse table for IndexedDB. Go ahead, look at it. I'll wait.

@maarten00
maarten00 / pmt.js
Created March 19, 2015 09:56
Excel PMT in PHP and JavaScript
/**
* Copy of Excel's PMT function.
* Credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2094967/excel-pmt-function-in-js
*
* @param rate_per_period The interest rate for the loan.
* @param number_of_payments The total number of payments for the loan in months.
* @param present_value The present value, or the total amount that a series of future payments is worth now;
* Also known as the principal.
* @param future_value The future value, or a cash balance you want to attain after the last payment is made.
* If fv is omitted, it is assumed to be 0 (zero), that is, the future value of a loan is 0.
@jtilly
jtilly / install.sh
Last active July 25, 2025 21:44
Install qcachegrind on Ubuntu
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install qt5-default
wget http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/kcachegrind-0.7.4.tar.gz
tar xvf kcachegrind-0.7.4.tar.gz
cd kcachegrind-0.7.4
qmake && make
sudo install -m 755 qcachegrind/qcachegrind /usr/local/bin
sudo install -m 644 qcachegrind/qcachegrind.desktop \
/usr/local/share/applications/