Spotlight & Time Machine Excludes

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You can increase your battery life by removing a couple of folders from your Spotlight index. 
Here is my list of folders which made the most difference.

Please fork and update this gist with any additional folders that you've found which are worth removing.

# Most of this was done using Grandperspectiv, which I love
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/HelpDocumentation/HowToAnalyseTimeMachineBackups.html

sudo tmutil addexclusion ~/Downloads

# Sometimes, huge and useless files
~/Downloads

# Ruby Developers
~/.gem
~/.rbenv

# Where I keep Vagrant VMs
~/.vagrant

# Where I keep my VMWare VMs
~/VMs

# Backblaze stores tons of data daily here
/Library/Backblaze

# Mac/iOS Developer
/Library/Developer

# Steam users
~/Libary/Application Support/Steam

# Spotify
/Users/paul/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client

# Dropbox cache (can be one large file)
~/.dropbox

# Chrome db settigns and 
~/Libary/Application Support/Chrome