GeoffTidey

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

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/telnet'

# https://gist.github.com/bkimble/1365005
class MemcachedKeys

  def process!
    cache_dump_limit = 100000000
    localhost = Net::Telnet::new("Host" => "localhost", "Port" => 11211, "Timeout" => 3)
    slab_ids = []

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Development

jazz_hands

jazz_hands is an opinionated set of console-related gems and a bit of glue. Including Pry, an awesome REPL, & some of it's friends. Pry is is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby. It features syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation and source and documentation browsing. It also includes awesome_print.

https://github.com/nixme/jazz_hands

http://pryrepl.org/

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

#very much a WIP!
#attempting to get all available events & relevant prices!

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

a = Mechanize.new { |agent|
  agent.user_agent_alias = 'Windows IE 8'

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#see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Shift_and_Rotate#Extended_Shift_Instructions for more info on shrd
def shrd(rm16, r16, cl)
  rm16 >>= cl
  r16 <<= (16 - cl)
  rm16 | (r16 & 0xFFFF)
end

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[8, 0, 227, 1, 108, 2, 0, 121, 95].map { |b| "#{b.to_s(16).rjust(2, "0")} " }.join

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#!/bin/bash
echo "Installing Kids Ruby!"

sudo apt-get install git

# rbenv
cd
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo `export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"` >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

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def output name=((default=true); "caius")
  puts "name: #{name.inspect}"
  puts "default: #{default.inspect}"
end

output
# >> name: "caius"
# >> default: true

output "avdi"