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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active March 8, 2024 02:11
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
@technoweenie
technoweenie / github_oauth_busy_developer_guide.md
Created May 30, 2010 18:34
GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

  • Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:
@defunkt
defunkt / carbon.md
Created November 5, 2009 20:45
Reduce your carbon footprint

Vim

autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e

Emacs

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)

Textmate

@jdmaturen
jdmaturen / company-ownership.md
Last active July 29, 2023 22:39
Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

@lenary
lenary / gitconfig.ini
Created February 18, 2011 01:21
a special excerpt of my gitconfig
$ git clone github:lenary/guides.git
Cloning into guides...
remote: Counting objects: 255, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 255 (delta 111), reused 163 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (255/255), 1.49 MiB | 564 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), done.
$ cd guides
$ git remote -v
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures</title>
<style>
body { font-family: sans-serif; background: #f4f3f3; color: rgba(40, 30, 0, 1); width: 500px; margin: 80px auto; padding: 0px; }
a { color: rgba(15, 10, 0, 0.8); text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid; padding: 1px 1px 0px; -webkit-transition: background 1s ease; }
a:hover { background: rgba(0, 220, 220, 0.2); }
p, li { line-height: 1.5; padding: 0em 1em 0em 0em; margin: 0em 0em 0.5em; }
@lwe
lwe / brew-services.rb
Created January 5, 2011 13:13
External script for homebrew to simplify starting services via launchctl, out of the box support for any formula which implements #startup_plist.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
# brew-services(1) - Easily start and stop formulas via launchctl
# ===============================================================
#
# ## SYNOPSIS
#
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `list`<br>
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `restart` <formula><br>
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `start` <formula> [<plist>]<br>
@vmg
vmg / sparc.c
Created November 15, 2011 23:03
Sparks in C
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <float.h>
int main
(int argc
,char *ac []){int i, count = argc - 1;
double * dvalues=malloc(01- 01+count*
sizeof(double)+1); double mi=DBL_MAX,ran=.0,ma =DBL_MIN,mo;for(i= 00; argc>1
&&i<count;i=i+8-7) {double val = atof(ac[i+1]) ;if(23&&val<mi)mi= val;if(val
# Our own variable where we deploy this app to
deploy_to = "/srv/example.com"
current_path = "#{deploy_to}/current"
shared_path = "#{deploy_to}/shared"
shared_bundler_gems_path = "#{shared_path}/bundler_gems"
# See http://unicorn.bogomips.org/Sandbox.html
# Helps ensure the correct unicorn_rails is used when upgrading with USR2
Unicorn::HttpServer::START_CTX[0] = "#{shared_bundler_gems_path}/bin/unicorn_rails"