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(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath, and I'm one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven't heard of it, has been described as "Facebook for developers." Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we're the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we're small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I've always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing - which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

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# **************** READ THIS FIRST ******************
#
# This is not a script for you to run. I repeat, do not download and run this!
#
# This is only a guide to show the required steps for successful UEFI + GRUB2 installation
# Many of the choices are examples or assumptions; don't blindly type shit into your machine
# until/unless you at least read the comments around each command
#
# These steps assume you've booted in UEFI mode by preparing your USB stick per these instructions:
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Archiso

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Architectural Questions

• Are responsibilities well defined?
• Are the collaborations well defined?
• Is coupling minimized?
• Can you identify potential duplication?
• Are interface definitions and constraints acceptable?
• Can modules access needed data—when needed?

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import System.Exit
import Data.Maybe (Maybe, isNothing, fromJust)
import qualified Data.List as L
import qualified Data.Map as M
import GHC.IO.Handle

-- Xmonad Core
import XMonad
import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W
import XMonad.Config.Desktop

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 Xft.dpi: 120
 Xft.antialias:  true
 Xft.hinting:    true
 Xft.rgba:       rgb
 Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

rofi.color-enabled: true
rofi.color-window: #282828, #282828, #268bd2
rofi.color-normal: #282828, #ffffff, #282828, #268bd2, #ffffff
rofi.color-active: #282828, #268bd2, #282828, #268bd2, #205171

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Colours in terminal

It's a common confusion about terminal colours... Actually we have this:

• plain ascii
• ansi escape codes (16 colour codes with bold/italic and background)
• 256 colour palette (216 colours + 16 ansi + 24 gray) (colors are 24bit)
• 24bit true colour ("888" colours (aka 16 milion))

printf "\x1b[${bg};2;${red};${green};${blue}m\n"

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inoremap <silent> <Bar>   <Bar><Esc>:call <SID>align()<CR>a

function! s:align()
  let p = '^\s*|\s.*\s|\s*$'
  if exists(':Tabularize') && getline('.') =~# '^\s*|' && (getline(line('.')-1) =~# p || getline(line('.')+1) =~# p)
    let column = strlen(substitute(getline('.')[0:col('.')],'[^|]','','g'))
    let position = strlen(matchstr(getline('.')[0:col('.')],'.*|\s*\zs.*'))
    Tabularize/|/l1
    normal! 0
    call search(repeat('[^|]*|',column).'\s\{-\}'.repeat('.',position),'ce',line('.'))

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DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
MENU TITLE PXEBOOT MENU

#LABEL menu
#MENU HIDE
#KERNEL menu.c32

# Entries for local boots
LABEL -
	MENU LABEL Local:

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Source material:
  http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/24444/what-is-the-most-hardened-set-of-options-for-gcc-compiling-c-c
  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo
  https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening

================================================================================================================>
GCC Security related flags and options:

CFLAGS="-fPIE -fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" 
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro"

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import collections
import threading

__author__ = 'ashw7n'

import socket
import json
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)