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Personal Finance

• Consider Your Options - covers stock grants, nonqualified options, incentive stock options and employee stock purchase plans in an easy to understand way.

Personal Security

• The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: A Privacy Guide for the Rest of Us

Business, Etc

• Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue
• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull - Lessons learned at Pixar while trying grow and sustain an incredible and creative culture

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tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set these_items to the selection
	log these_items
	repeat with this_item in these_items
		set item_name to (get displayed name of this_item)
		if item_name is not ".DS_Store" then
			set current_com to (get comment of this_item)
			if current_com is not "" then
				set comment of this_item to current_com as string

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layout	title	description	path
barewithrelated	Book Authoring Using GitHub and Git	Formats, tips and techniques for using GitHub and Git as the version control and collaborative platform for writing short and long form books.	usecases/_posts/2001-01-01-book-authoring-using-git-and-github.md

GitHub and Git are not just for writing programming code. They can also be an effective tool for writing articles and books. Matthew McCullough has written a quick guide to writing books in lightweight formats. This article will be folded into this Teaching repository over the coming months.

What is this?

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Git Compression of Blobs and Packfiles.

Many users of Git are curious about the lack of delta compression at the object (blob) level when commits are first written. This efficiency is saved until the pack file is written. Loose objects are written in compressed, but non-delta format at the time of each commit.

A simple run though of a commit sequence with only the smallest change to the image (in uncompressed TIFF format to amplify the observable behavior) aids the understanding of this deferred and different approach efficiency.

The command sequence:

Create the repo:

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Economics & Software Development - Book List

The following books are ordered in descending order of Matthew's preference.

The Art of Strategy

by Avinash K. Dixit

Recommended by Ted Neward. A different perspective and writing style from the other volumes listed.

“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven Levitt

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##############################################################################
# History Configuration
##############################################################################
HISTSIZE=5000               #How many lines of history to keep in memory
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history     #Where to save history to disk
SAVEHIST=5000               #Number of history entries to save to disk
#HISTDUP=erase               #Erase duplicates in the history file
setopt    appendhistory     #Append history to the history file (no overwriting)
setopt    sharehistory      #Share history across terminals
setopt    incappendhistory  #Immediately append to the history file, not just when a term is killed

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# Put this in your .gitconfig file under the alias section
orphank = !gitk --all `git reflog | cut -c1-7`&
# Then run it by typing 'git orphank' on the command line.

# A text version of the same is
orphanl = !git --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --decorate `git reflog | cut -c1-7`

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CLI History

git hash-object -t tree /dev/null

git init project1
echo "Hello World" > hello.txt
git add hello.txt
git commit -m"First hello"

printf “blob 12\000Hello World\n” | shasum

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for t in `git tag`
do
    git push origin :$t
    git tag -d $t
done

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GitHub Free Class and Office Hours on 2014-01-17

Free Class & Office Hour

• Teacher: Jordan McCullough
• Assistant: Matthew McCullough
• Training homepage: http://training.github.com
• Training Twitter handle: @githubtraining (Tweet us if you liked the class!)
• Training/GitHub Educational Videos: http://youtube.com/githubguides
• Facebook page: http://facebook.com/github
• Technical support: https://github.com/contact