mlafeldt

Shakespeare Sonnet++ Postmortem (incident #465)

Date

2015-10-21

Authors

• jennifer
• martym

jdmaturen

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

marick

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

brbsix

Networking Troubles with Vagrant Box ubuntu/wily64

For some reason, the network interfaces in ubuntu/wily64 fail to configure at boot. The interfaces are renamed during boot, with dmesg reporting things like udev renamed network interface eth0 to enp1s0. This is apparently the result of a change in systemd. You can read about it here:

Starting with v197 systemd/udev will automatically assign predictable, stable network interface names for all local Ethernet, WLAN and WWAN interfaces. This is a departure from the traditional interface naming scheme ("eth0", "eth1", "wlan0", ...), but should fix real problems.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

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mjgp2

region=us-east-1
s3_bucket_name=$1
sns_topic_name=$2
sqs_queue_name=$sns_topic_name

# create the SNS topic
sns_topic_arn=$(aws sns create-topic \
  --region "$region" \
  --name "$sns_topic_name" \
  --output text \

mazgi

# uname -a
Linux base 4.0.5-gentoo #1 SMP Wed Jul 1 02:23:16 JST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Packages

# emerge -pvq openldap openssh sssd sudo
[ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.4.38-r2 USE="berkdb crypt gnutls ipv6 minimal sasl ssl syslog tcpd -cxx -debug -experimental -icu -iodbc -kerberos -odbc -overlays -perl -samba (-selinux) -slp -smbkrb5passwd" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 

christian-blades-cb

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# If you're using docker-machine, call this script with your
# environment name
# Ex: ./vpn_fix dev

DEFAULTVM="boot2docker-vm"
[ $(id -u) = 0 ] || { echo "You must be root (or use 'sudo')" ; exit 1; }

report_success ()