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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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#!/bin/bash

: '
Complete command line script for a new wordpress install.

You must still build an APACHE VIRTUALHOST

$ ./getwp.sh example.taui.io ex-admin
Arguments:
1 - webpage, example.taui.io

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Flask-Login example
===================
This is a small application that provides a trivial demonstration of
Flask-Login, including remember me functionality.

:copyright: (C) 2011 by Matthew Frazier.
:license:   MIT/X11, see LICENSE for more details.
"""

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import threading
import Queue
import time
import fileinput

import sys



validated_stdin = Queue.Queue()

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" Apparently some vim environments require colons before commands in
" .vimrc and others don't. This file has been primarily tested in 
" Ubuntu 12.04, 13.10, and 14.04 environments, where a : is required
" on each line before a command. According to one stackexchange topic
" it is best to leave the leading colons because systems that do not 
" require them can still execute them.
" Author - Trent Robbins

" Turn arrow keys off:
" To cycle history in `ed` mode, use C-n and C-p (although up and down might work fine)

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"""
Check .pyc files against .py files in a directory and all its descendants to see if any pyc files do not have their accompanying py files.

To get input for this, run the command:

find . -regex .*pyc? > checker.txt

Check if the line ends in pyc. 
If it does, check if there is a line that is the same without the c.  
If not, print the pyc line.

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var gulp = require('gulp');

// Run shell commands with exec:
// https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-exec
var exec = require('child_process').exec;

// collectstatic task for Django
// https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-exec
gulp.task('collectstatic', function (cb) {
  exec('python ../../manage.py collectstatic -i node_modules -i bower_components --noinput', function (err, stdout, stderr) {

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"""
placeholder docstring
"""
import threading
import time
import random

def waitsome(n):
    """ wait some time
    """

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"""
Specification for retrieve_data:
If 200 is the status code, return the json object
If not, return an error

instead of subclassing Thread to store the data, we've used a global variable.
avoiding objects for now to keep everything accessible.
"""
import time
import threading

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Martian
True Names
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