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

oakes

Contents

• Why care about Rust?
• The Toolchain
• Creating a New Project
• Modules
• Crates
• Types
• References
• Mutability

favila

(ns favila.async-util
  "Some missing pieces of core.async.

   as-transducer: Make a transducer function easily without Clojure 1.7.
   go-pipe: async/pipe, but returns the go-loop.
   fast-pipeline-blocking: faster than async/pipeline-blocking, but unordered results.
   blocking-consumer: consume a channel with multiple worker threads."
  (:require [clojure.core.async :as async
             :refer [go go-loop <! >! <!! >!! close! take! put! chan]]))

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

honza

"""
This snippet shows how to listen for the SIGTERM signal on Unix and execute a
simple function open receiving it.

To test it out, uncomment the pid code and kill the process with:
    
    $ kill -15 pid
"""
import signal
import sys