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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

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

Setting up Vim as your Go IDE

Intro

I've been wanting to do a serious project in Go. One thing holding me back has been a my working environment. As a huge PyCharm user, I was hoping the Go IDE plugin for IntelliJ IDEA would fit my needs. However, it never felt quite right. After a previous experiment a few years ago using Vim, I knew how powerful it could be if I put in the time to make it so. Luckily there are plugins for almost anything you need to do with Go or what you would expect form and IDE. While this is no where near comprehensive, it will get you writing code, building and testing with the power you would expect from Vim.

Getting Started

I'm assuming you're coming with a clean slate. For me this was OSX so I used MacVim. There is nothing in my config files that assumes this is the case.

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#
	# Very basic example of using Python and IMAP to iterate over emails in a
	# gmail folder/label. This code is released into the public domain.
	#
	# RKI July 2013
	# http://www.voidynullness.net/blog/2013/07/25/gmail-email-with-python-via-imap/
	#
	import sys
	import imaplib

	//Make a directory to hold the node
	mkdir node-install-dir
	cd node-install-dir

	//Curl and unzip latest node
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1

	//Install gcc and g++
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ apache2

	function loggedIn() {
	// ...
	}

	function requireAuth(nextState, replace) {
	if (!loggedIn()) {
	replace({
	pathname: '/login'
	})
	}

	/*
	* This is a version of Facebook's React Conditional Rendering
	* example modified to support firebase authentication.
	* https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/conditional-rendering.html
	*/

	import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
	import * as firebase from 'firebase';

	function UserAvatar(props) {

	.box {
	box-shadow: 0 22px 70px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.56);
	}