removing German locale setting
turning off fci-mode for the scratch buffer
remapping "C-x C-b" to `ibuffer', per technomancy's recommendation here:
https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults/blob/master/better-defaults.el
removing `run-python' mapping from "C-c C-p" in `python-mode' and making
it a global binding with "C-c p"