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NBonaparte / gst-camera-record
Last active August 17, 2023 14:26
Python 3 program using Gstreamer 1.0 that shows video stream and allows for uninterrupted recording.
#!/usr/bin/python3
# This program is licensed under GPLv3.
from os import path
import gi
gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
gi.require_version('GdkX11', '3.0')
gi.require_version('GstVideo', '1.0')
from gi.repository import GObject, Gst, Gtk
@harperreed
harperreed / peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-01-notes-essay.md
Created July 29, 2012 21:20
Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012

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

@randika
randika / deploy.rb
Created March 14, 2012 15:50
Capistrano receip
set :application, "myapp-name"
set :repository, "."
set :deploy_via, :copy
set :scm, :git
set :branch, "master"
set :user, "ubuntu"
set :use_sudo, false
@veganstraightedge
veganstraightedge / 1_create_apples.rb
Created January 24, 2012 08:41
habtm in Rails 3.2
class CreateApples < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :apples do |t|
t.string :name
end
end
end
@isaacsanders
isaacsanders / Equity.md
Created January 21, 2012 15:32
Joel Spolsky on Equity for Startups

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

# If you post to a Ruby on Rails REST API endpoint, then you'll get an
# InvalidAuthenticityToken exception unless you set a different
# content type in the request headers, since any post from a form must
# contain an authenticity token.
#
# This example shows you how to post to a rails endpoint.
require 'json'