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

bearfrieze

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

by Bjørn Friese

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.

guilhem

#!/bin/sh -e

SERVICE=$1
SLEEP=${2:-0}

if [ -z "$SERVICE" ]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 service [sleep]"
  exit
fi

davidejones

#!/bin/bash

instance_profile=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/`
aws_access_key_id=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/${instance_profile} | grep AccessKeyId | cut -d':' -f2 | sed 's/[^0-9A-Z]*//g'`
aws_secret_access_key=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/${instance_profile} | grep SecretAccessKey | cut -d':' -f2 | sed 's/[^0-9A-Za-z/+=]*//g'`
token=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/${instance_profile} | sed -n '/Token/{p;}' | cut -f4 -d'"'`

file="somefile.deb"
bucket="some-bucket-of-mine"
date="`date +'%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'`"

ericandrewlewis

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

wenzhixin

# install openjdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

# download android sdk
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz

tar -xvf android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz
cd android-sdk-linux/tools

# install all sdk packages

denji

Moved to git repository: https://github.com/denji/golang-tls

Generate private key (.key)

# Key considerations for algorithm "RSA" ≥ 2048-bit
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

# Key considerations for algorithm "ECDSA" ≥ secp384r1
# List ECDSA the supported curves (openssl ecparam -list_curves)

ricardo-rossi

#!/bin/bash

### USAGE
###
### ./ElasticSearch.sh 1.7 will install Elasticsearch 1.7
### ./ElasticSearch.sh will fail because no version was specified (exit code 1)
###
### CLI options Contributed by @janpieper
### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch

nickjacob

[Unit]
Description=Demonstrate Bash

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/systemctl set-environment MYVAR=$(( 2 + 2 ))"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/echo "2 + 2 = ${MYVAR}"

NYKevin

CREATE TABLE accounts(
	id serial PRIMARY KEY,
	name VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE entries(
	id serial PRIMARY KEY,
	description VARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL,
	amount NUMERIC(20, 2) NOT NULL CHECK (amount > 0.0),
	-- Every entry is a credit to one account...