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Valgrid

This is useful to see memory usage not only memory leak check. The tool massif is a heap profiler and the usage is like this:


            valgrind --tool=massif ./somebinary 

            ms_print massif.out.${PID}

Detail is here Valgrind User Manual: 9. Massif .

git

Stop track of specific files


            $ git update-index --skip-worktree {files...} # stop tracking 

            $ git ls-files -v | awk '{ if($1 == "S") { print $2; }} # get files stopped to be tracked

Beamer (LaTeX)

Fontsize in itemise


            \setbeamerfont{itemize/enumerate body}{}

            \setbeamerfont{itemize/enumerate subbody}{size=\small}

            \setbeamerfont{itemize/enumerate subsubbody}{size=\footnotesize}

Curved arrow in Tikz


            \begin{tikzpicture}

                \node[main node] (1) {a};

                \node[main node] (2) [right of=1] {b};

                \draw [->] (1) --[out=150,in=30] (2); 

            \end{tikzpicture}