Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
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PeterFaiman
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November 20, 2014 04:36
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| Learn a new programming language! | |
| - functional language like Racket, Erlang, Clojure | |
| - Python is so useful and easy to learn! | |
| Install Linux. | |
| - easy: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ElementaryOS <- super pretty | |
| - harder: Debian expert install, Arch Linux | |
| - stupid: Fedora, CentOS <- bad, out of date, tedious to work with | |
| - expert: FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD / DragonflyBSD |
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/ node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
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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.
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| 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 |