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defunkt / startupriot.markdown
Last active September 15, 2023 18:11
Startup Riot 2009 Keynote

(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.

@zbrock
zbrock / cucumber_external_resque_worker.rb
Created August 17, 2010 21:19
class CucumberExternalResqueWorker
DEFAULT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT = 1.minute
COUNTER_KEY = "cucumber:counter"
class << self
attr_accessor :pid, :startup_timeout
def start
# Call from a Cucumber support file so it is run on startup
return unless Rails.env.cucumber?
@ptwobrussell
ptwobrussell / gist:668166
Created November 8, 2010 19:52
Visualizing Twitter Search Results:
Visualizing Twitter Search Results with Protovis and/or Graphviz is this easy:
$ easy_install twitter # See https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter and http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
$ git clone https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web.git
$ cd Mining-the-Social-Web/python_code
$ python introduction__retweet_visualization.py TeaParty # or whatever you want to search for
Your browser should pop open and display the results as a force directed graph, but also check your console for some useful output.
You can create an image file from the DOT language output with a command like the following:
@jchris
jchris / couchapp.html
Created November 27, 2010 15:14
the smallest possible CouchApp
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<!-- This should be the simplest possible jQuery based CouchApp. Install by uploading to a design document in Futon or putting in _attachments/index.html and running `couchapp push` -->
<head><title>Tiny CouchApp</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Tiny CouchApp</h1>
<ul id="databases"></ul>
</body>
<script src="/_utils/script/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="/_utils/script/jquery.couch.js"></script>
@darkseed
darkseed / Iphone-idleTimer.m
Created January 10, 2011 02:32
Disable/Enable the iOS idle times to prevent screen dimming
// Disable
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];
// Enable
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
@fdmanana
fdmanana / gist:832610
Created February 17, 2011 20:27
The CouchDB replicator database

1. Introduction to the replicator database

A database where you PUT/POST documents to trigger replications and you DELETE to cancel ongoing replications. These documents have exactly the same content as the JSON objects we used to POST to /_replicate/ (fields "source", "target", "create_target", "continuous", "doc_ids", "filter", "query_params".

Replication documents can have a user defined "_id". Design documents (and _local documents) added to the replicator database are ignored.

The default name of this database is _replicator. The name can be changed in the .ini configuration, section [replicator], parameter db.

2. Basics

@tsaniel
tsaniel / LICENSE.txt
Created September 2, 2011 12:17 — forked from 140bytes/LICENSE.txt
Konami Code easter egg
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
@kevinclark
kevinclark / gist:1365529
Created November 14, 2011 23:13

On Failure and Flow

It was so simple. All you wanted was a local copy of your browser history so you could read offline. So you hacked up a script and it worked pretty well. But there were gaps. Sometimes pages didn't work by the time you tried to download them. Sometimes the server errored out. Once, the jerk next door dug up a cable line and your net connection went down entirely.

Errors are going to happen, so how do you handle them in code?

@mikeal
mikeal / gist:1387977
Created November 23, 2011 05:53

for some reason HN appears to be blocking people from seeing this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3268786 in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3268284

This is perhaps the most depressing response I've received to my article.

As I said in my article this is far less about git and more about the chasm that has grown between Apache and the rest of the community.

Your first two points boil down to "nobody makes you join Apache, if you don't like our policies then you can get out". How does this help Apache or its projects?

Apache could still be valuable to the community but this kind of stubborn attitude will insure that it continues to become irrelevant when it could be a leader.

@roidrage
roidrage / ebooks.md
Created December 2, 2011 15:15
Self-published and awesome