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schacon / 0_reuse_code.js
Created December 3, 2013 16:57
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console
dfg
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schacon / git-http-proto.txt
Created July 26, 2013 22:16
Git HTTP transport protocol documentation
HTTP transfer protocols
=======================
Git supports two HTTP based transfer protocols. A "dumb" protocol
which requires only a standard HTTP server on the server end of the
connection, and a "smart" protocol which requires a Git aware CGI
(or server module). This document describes both protocols.
As a design feature smart clients can automatically upgrade "dumb"
protocol URLs to smart URLs. This permits all users to have the
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schacon / raseij.md
Created May 14, 2013 22:00
Andrew Raseij's PDF speech in 2005

Welcome to the second annual Personal Democracy Forum. It’s great to see so many familiar faces from last year’s forum, and to greet so many new folks who are here. It seems our blog-ads on Jeff Gannon’s website paid off.

We’re putting on our conference today in cooperation with the Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Thank you David Levine and your whole staff here at CUNY, you’ve been fantastic.

I also want to take a moment to thank the terrific and talented PDF staff for putting together a program interesting and provocative enough to get a room full of techies to put down their Berries and Treos for the better part of a day: Hart Hooton, Dawn Barber, Jen Vento, Isabel Walcott, and our executive editor, Micah Sifry. In particular, I’d like to single out Anthony Russomano and Elizabeth Caputo for their tireless efforts to make today a success

And a special thanks to our distinguished group of sponsors: Google, Burson-Marsteller, Echoditto, E

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schacon / gist:4550891
Created January 16, 2013 20:58
The keyboard shortcuts to know when you hook up your mac to present in keynote (for quicker lightning talks setup)
Mirror/unmirror displays: ⌘-F1 or ⌘-fn-1
Switch presenter display: x
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schacon / upload.rb
Created April 16, 2012 23:48
ruby script to upload a file to GitHub downloads section
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
#
# ruby upload.rb user pass user/repo file '(description)'
#
require 'json'
if ARGV.size < 4
puts "\nUSAGE: upload.rb [user] [pass] [user/repo] [filepath] ('description')"
exit
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schacon / get_token.sh
Created April 9, 2012 15:38
shell command to get a GitHub OAuth token
# sh get_token.sh user pass
curl -s -d '{"scopes":["repo"],"note":"admin script"}' -u "$1:$2" -XPOST https://api.github.com/authorizations | grep token
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schacon / slide_w_notes.txt
Created September 13, 2011 23:00
ShowOff slide with notes
!SLIDE bullets incremental transition=fade
.notes something something something something something something something something something something something something something something something dark side
# Second Slide #
* something
* something else
* a third thing
* a fourth thing
--enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid