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Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

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S3 Static Sites

What this will cover

• Host a static website at S3
• Redirect www.website.com to website.com
• Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
• Free AWS SSL certs
• Deployment with CDN invalidation

Resources

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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.avro.io.BinaryDecoder;
import org.apache.avro.io.BinaryEncoder;
import org.apache.avro.io.DecoderFactory;

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NOTE: GhostScript must be intalled

Mac Install instructions

brew install gs

Then run ghostscript listing all files to merge.

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;;
;; NS CHEATSHEET
;;
;; * :require makes functions available with a namespace prefix.
;;
;; * :use makes functions available without a namespace prefix
;;   (i.e., refers functions to the current namespace).
;;
;; * :import refers Java classes to the current namespace.
;;

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1) stopping all running solr processes
2) removing the solr folder BUT keep a copy of it accessible in case you need some of the old config, synonyms and such.
3) gem uninstall all related gems
  > for i in `gem list --no-versions`; do gem uninstall -aIx $i; done
4) bundle install
5) rails generate sunspot_rails:install

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var express = require('express');
var app     = express.createServer();

require('./settings').boot(app);

app.dynamicHelpers({
  base: function(){
    // return the app's mount-point
    // so that urls can adjust. For example
    // if you run this example /post/add works

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=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import com.itextpdf.text.Chapter;
import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;

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#  Index
---------------------------------------------------------------------

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/pictures/ -d '
{
    "settings": {
        "analysis": {
            "analyzer": {
                "index_analyzer": {
                    "tokenizer": "standard",