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Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office in any Linux distribution

There are multiple options how to install MS Office on Linux.

VM-based - Integrate Windows apps running in a Windows virtual machine as native-looking in Linux

LinOffice - Microsoft Office Launcher for Linux, my own fork of Winapps which is focused on only running Microsoft Office, with some Office-specific improvements over Winapps and a fully automated setup. Eventually I would like to create a GUI for it. Decribed below
Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Docker/Podman and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits). Decribed below
Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, libvirt/virt-manager, and FreeRDP. Last release in Feb 2022 and seems to be abandoned.

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

Note

This tutorial is for Ubuntu & Squid3. Use AWS, Google cloud, Digital Ocean or any services with Ubuntu to follow this tutorial.

Install squid & update

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install squid3
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

	using UnityEngine;
	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEditor;

	public static class PivotUtilities
	{
	[MenuItem("GameObject/Pivot/Create Pivot", false, 0)]
	static void CreatePivotObject()
	{

	#/bin/bash

	# https://theawesomegarage.com/blog/godaddy-terminated-my-free-dns-management-api-now-what

	# This script will retrieve your Public IP, and if the service IP is different from last time
	# the script will attempt to call Cloudflare's specific API endpoint for DNS updates.
	# I suggest calling the script from crontab like this, for example every minute:
	# /1 * * * /mnt/web/scripts/updatecloudflare.sh /mnt/web/scripts/theawesomegarage.org.cfg >> /var/log/dns-updates.log

	# You will have to give a .cfg-file for each domain you want to update, formatted like this (without the comments, obviously):

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -o errexit
	set -o nounset

	function server() {
	echo "Starting TCP server at http://localhost:8000..."
	socat TCP-LISTEN:8000,pktinfo,reuseaddr,fork SYSTEM:"'${SHELL}' '${BASH_SOURCE[0]}' request"
	}

	function request() {

	{
	"Abia": [
	"Aba North",
	"Aba South",
	"Arochukwu",
	"Bende",
	"Ikwuano",
	"Isiala-Ngwa North",
	"Isiala-Ngwa South",
	"Isuikwato",