harperreed

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

jbenet

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

tjmcewan

Run these once to setup git options:

git config --global push.default current
git config --global merge.defaultToUpstream true
git config --global branch.autosetupmerge true
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase remote
git config --global alias.cb 'checkout -b'
git config --global alias.ps 'push -u'
git config --global alias.pl '!git fetch -p && git rebase'

Use them like this:

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

max-mapper

Synchronization for Merkle graphs

abstract

intro

• Problem we’re solving: Efficient p2p Merkle DAG replication
• Proposed solution in a nutshell: Simplistic and symmetric protocol with reference implementation in Node.js

edsilv

This is a quick guide to using IPFS as a file store for your IIIF "level 0" image service tiles.

Clone https://github.com/zimeon/iiif

Follow the install instructions

Regenerate the tetons tiles and info.json: https://github.com/zimeon/iiif/tree/master/demo-static#regerating-tiles

ipfs add -r tetons

jbenet

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