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andreyvit / tmux.md
Created June 13, 2012 03:41
tmux cheatsheet

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

@liuw
liuw / ctype_async_raise.py
Created April 17, 2012 16:02
Nasty hack to raise exception for other threads
#!/usr/bin/env python
# liuw
# Nasty hack to raise exception for other threads
import ctypes # Calm down, this has become standard library since 2.5
import threading
import time
NULL = 0
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@pklaus
pklaus / ping.py
Created March 5, 2011 09:50
A pure python ping implementation using raw socket.
#!/usr/bin/env python2
"""
Other Repositories of python-ping
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* https://github.com/l4m3rx/python-ping supports Python2 and Python3
* https://bitbucket.org/delroth/python-ping
@chicagoworks
chicagoworks / jQuery.stringify.js
Created December 24, 2010 19:05
jQuery.stringify() utility
/**
* converted stringify() to jQuery plugin.
* serializes a simple object to a JSON formatted string.
* Note: stringify() is different from jQuery.serialize() which URLEncodes form elements
* UPDATES:
* Added a fix to skip over Object.prototype members added by the prototype.js library
* USAGE:
* jQuery.ajax({
@vicalejuri
vicalejuri / django-crossdomainxhr-middleware.py
Created June 5, 2010 17:47
Middlware to allow's your django server to respond appropriately to cross domain XHR (postMessage html5 API).
import re
from django.utils.text import compress_string
from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
from django import http
try:
import settings
XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = settings.XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS