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BaseCase / dc_2017_biblio.md
Last active January 23, 2020 05:13
List of resources recommended or mentioned by the speakers at Deconstruct 2017

Deconstruct 2017 Bibliography

Here are all of the resources mentioned by Deconstruct 2017 speakers, along with who recommended what. Please post a comment if I missed something or have an error!

DC 2017 Speakers' Choice Gold Medalist

  • Seeing Like a State by James Scott

Books

  • Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (Evan Czaplicki)
  • A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Brian Marick)
  • Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans (Brian Marick)
@steveklabnik
steveklabnik / Entfremdung.md
Created August 3, 2014 18:15
alienation 101

Quick summary:

Alienation is one of the ways that capitalism sucks. It's a symptom that something's not right, not the underlying cause. Alienation is something that happens because of the way that capitalism is built.

In short, alienation is a separation between things that should be together. This separation causes tension.

Four ways that capitalism is alienating:

From your product of labor

@mcastorina
mcastorina / tls-workshop.sh
Last active February 9, 2022 05:40
TLS Workshop Playground
#!/bin/bash
## TLS Workshop Playground
## NOTICE: This script is intended for learning purposes only.
# These functions will set environmental variables in your terminal session,
# all beginning with "tls_". Use tls-reset to clean up all variables and remove
# generated temporary files (in the case of asym-gen).
# Print a help message
function tls-help {
@bittner
bittner / 60-jetbrains.conf
Created September 25, 2015 07:57
Inotify configuration for IntelliJ IDEA (PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm). Create this file with e.g. `sudo vim /etc/sysctl.d/60-jetbrains.conf`
# Set inotify watch limit high enough for IntelliJ IDEA (PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm).
# Create this file as /etc/sysctl.d/60-jetbrains.conf (Debian, Ubuntu), and
# run `sudo service procps start` or reboot.
# Source: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Inotify+Watches+Limit
#
# More information resources:
# -$ man inotify # manpage
# -$ man sysctl.conf # manpage
# -$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches # print current value in use

This document has moved!

It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

@joyrexus
joyrexus / README.md
Last active February 24, 2024 15:16
collapsible markdown

collapsible markdown?

CLICK ME

yes, even hidden code blocks!

print("hello world!")
@ghoseb
ghoseb / factorial.py
Created November 14, 2008 18:58
The evolution of a Python Programmer
#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
if x == 0:
return 1
else:
return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)
#First year programmer, studied Pascal
@CristinaSolana
CristinaSolana / gist:1885435
Created February 22, 2012 14:56
Keeping a fork up to date

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream
@vancluever
vancluever / gnome-tracker-disable.md
Last active May 2, 2024 16:26
GNOME Tracker Disable

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

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