Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
laptop ssh -> laptop stunnel -> evil network -> internet -> your server -> your server ssh
Sets up a stunnel process listening externally on port 2443/tcp, forwards to localhost 22/tcp
- Install stunnel, e.g.
yum install stunnel
- Install server config snippet to
/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
curl --include \ | |
--no-buffer \ | |
--header "Connection: Upgrade" \ | |
--header "Upgrade: websocket" \ | |
--header "Host: example.com:80" \ | |
--header "Origin: http://example.com:80" \ | |
--header "Sec-WebSocket-Key: SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ==" \ | |
--header "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" \ | |
http://example.com:80/ |
let parameters = [ | |
"username": "foo", | |
"password": "123456" | |
] | |
Alamofire.request(.POST, "https://httpbin.org/post", parameters: parameters, encoding: .JSON) | |
// -> HTTP body: {"foo": [1, 2, 3], "bar": {"baz": "qux"}} |
04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.
This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.
[Laughter]
> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation
As configured in my dotfiles.
start new:
tmux
start new with session name: