Gaurav igauravsehrawat

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

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.

###Prerequesites

Install node.js from http://nodejs.org
Make sure you install git from http://git-scm.com

Install flightplan globally

npm install -g flightplan

Install flightplan in your project folder

	/* Merge sort in C */
	#include<stdio.h>
	#include<stdlib.h>

	// Function to Merge Arrays L and R into A.
	// lefCount = number of elements in L
	// rightCount = number of elements in R.
	void Merge(int A,int L,int leftCount,int *R,int rightCount) {
	int i,j,k;

	upstream project {
	server 22.22.22.2:3000;
	server 22.22.22.3:3000;
	server 22.22.22.5:3000;
	}

	server {
	listen 80;

	location / {

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	require 'optparse'
	require 'ostruct'

	# using list from graph gem
	COLOR_SCHEME_MAX = {
	accent: 8, blues: 9, brbg: 11, bugn: 9,
	dark2: 8, gnbu: 9, greens: 9, greys: 9,

	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.net.URLClassLoader;
	import java.nio.file.Files;
	import java.nio.file.Paths;
	import java.nio.file.Path;

	/**
	* Example demonstrating a ClassLoader leak.
	*
	* <p>To see it in action, copy this file to a temp directory somewhere,

	import logging
	import uuid
	import time

	from mesos.interface import Scheduler
	from mesos.native import MesosSchedulerDriver
	from mesos.interface import mesos_pb2

	logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

	// Safari, in Private Browsing Mode, looks like it supports localStorage but all calls to setItem
	// throw QuotaExceededError. We're going to detect this and just silently drop any calls to setItem
	// to avoid the entire page breaking, without having to do a check at each usage of Storage.
	if (typeof localStorage === 'object') {
	try {
	localStorage.setItem('localStorage', 1);
	localStorage.removeItem('localStorage');
	} catch (e) {
	Storage.prototype._setItem = Storage.prototype.setItem;
	Storage.prototype.setItem = function() {};