yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

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

patpohler

Big List of Real Estate APIs

Listings / Property Data

####Rets Rabbit http://www.retsrabbit.com

Rets Rabbit removes the nightmare of importing thousands of real estate listings and photos from RETS or ListHub and gives you an easy to use import and Web API server so you can focus on building your listing search powered website or app.

wojteklu

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

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General rules

1. Follow standard conventions.
2. Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
3. Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
4. Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

buonzz

# common installation location
/usr/share/elasticsearch/

# config file
/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

# always mount data/log folder to /home/elasticsearch and create external volume for it
/home/elasticsearch/data
/home/elasticsearch/log

kylemcdonald

import PIL.Image
from cStringIO import StringIO
import IPython.display
import numpy as np
def showarray(a, fmt='png'):
    a = np.uint8(a)
    f = StringIO()
    PIL.Image.fromarray(a).save(f, fmt)
    IPython.display.display(IPython.display.Image(data=f.getvalue()))

codenameyau

Elasticsearch REST Cheatsheet

• Getting started
• Make sure it works
• Basic CRUD
• Indexing
• Querying
• Filtering
• Examples
• Notes

sanbor

# Example from http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/06/01/ipython-notebook-javascript-python-communication/ adapted for IPython 2.0
# Add an input form similar to what we saw above

from IPython.display import HTML
from math import pi, sin

input_form = """
<div style="background-color:gainsboro; border:solid black; width:600px; padding:20px;">
Code: <input type="text" id="code_input" size="50" height="2" value="sin(pi / 2)"><br>
Result: <input type="text" id="result_output" size="50" value="1.0"><br>

xyfeng

# From https://github.com/wnyc/PIL/blob/master/Scripts/gifmaker.py
#
# The Python Imaging Library
# $Id$
#
# convert sequence format to GIF animation
#
# history:
#       97-01-03 fl     created
#

pfigue

Connect and Select

connect()

The shortest connect:

from psycopg2 import connect
psql_conn = connect("dbname=XXX user=XXX password=XXX host=localhost sslmode=require")
psql_conn.close()

janogarcia

Email Coding Guidelines

Table of contents

• TL;DR
• Intro
• Layout
• Typography
• Actions
• Images