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

mikepfirrmann

try:
    # put whatever code here
except:
    import traceback, StringIO, re, os

    def colorize(text, color):
        control_sequence_introducer = "\x1B["
        return "{0}{1}m{2}{0}0m".format(control_sequence_introducer, color, text)

    exception_output = StringIO.StringIO()

mrflip

Tuning Storm+Trident

Tuning a dataflow system is easy:

The First Rule of Dataflow Tuning:
* Ensure each stage is always ready to accept records, and
* Deliver each processed record promptly to its destination

emiller

#!/bin/bash
#
# git-mv-with-history -- move/rename file or folder, with history.
#
# Moving a file in git doesn't track history, so the purpose of this
# utility is best explained from the kernel wiki:
#
#   Git has a rename command git mv, but that is just for convenience.
#   The effect is indistinguishable from removing the file and adding another
#   with different name and the same content.

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

dutc

themes

1. CPython for greater understanding of the Python programming language (but "reference implementations always overspecify") Reading source to solve problems
2. getting involved, contributing to the project

introduction

This workshop will cover the basics of the CPython runtime and interpreter. There is an enormous amount of material to cover, and I'll try to to rush through as much as I can.

blackfalcon

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc

subudeepak

WebSockets - An Introduction

WebSockets is a modern HTML5 standard which makes communication between client and server a lot more simpler than ever. We are all familiar with the technology of sockets. Sockets have been fundamental to network communication for a long time but usually the communication over the browser has been restricted. The general restrictions

• The server used to have a permanent listener while the client (aka browser) was not designated any fixed listener for a more long term connection. Hence, every communication was restricted to the client demanding and the server responding.
• This meant that unless the client requested for a particular resource, the server was unable to push such a resource to the client.
• This was detrimental since the client is then forced to check with the server at regular intervals. This meant a lot of libraries focused on optimizing asynchronous calls and identifying the response of asynchronous calls. Notably t

ulope

# Written by Brendan O'Connor, [email protected], www.anyall.org
#  * Originally written Aug. 2005
#  * Posted to gist.github.com/16173 on Oct. 2008

#   Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Open Source Applications Foundation
#
#   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#   You may obtain a copy of the License at
#

GaelVaroquaux

'''
Non-parametric computation of entropy and mutual-information

Adapted by G Varoquaux for code created by R Brette, itself
from several papers (see in the code).

This code is maintained at https://github.com/mutualinfo/mutual_info 
Please download the latest code there, to have improvements and 
bug fixes.