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
| # I want to write a method that returns the first number in a sub array where the letter matches a passed in letter | |
| # If passed in letter does not exist, it should return nil | |
| a = [["a", 1], ["b", 2]] | |
| # Implementation | |
| def get_number_for_letter(arr, letter) | |
| arr.detect(Proc.new { [] }) { |d| d.first == letter }[1] | |
| end | |
| # Error received for case where letter does not exist | |
| # This might just be me not understanding how detect is supposed to work |
| ## Ruby Documentation | |
| http://ruby-doc.org/downloads/ | |