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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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# Be sure to save your config files. Optional but I do:
sudo cp /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf ~
sudo cp /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf ~

# Package repo (for apt-get)
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgresql.list'

# Also probably optional but I like to update sources and upgrade
sudo apt-get update

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Types

A type is a collection of possible values. An integer can have values 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.; a boolean can have values true and false. We can imagine any type we like: for example, a HighFive type that allows the values "hi" or 5, but nothing else. It's not a string and it's not an integer; it's its own, separate type.

Statically typed languages constrain variables' types: the programming language might know, for example, that x is an Integer. In that case, the programmer isn't allowed to say x = true; that would be an invalid program. The compiler will refuse to compile it, so we can't even run it.

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Weaving a budget with org-mode & ledger

ledger comes with a built in budget system, but I wanted to get an “envelope”, or “YNAB” style budget working. While this was easy to do in theory, in practice it proved more difficult. The theory is pretty simple; enevelope budgeting merely requires you to create some new accounts to keep track of each “envelope” of money. But in practice, it requires a huge amount of duplicate data-entry, because even when using ledger’s automatic transactions, because each month’s budget is mostly the same but not necessarily exactly the same.The following

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;; Flycheck JSCS
(flycheck-def-config-file-var flycheck-jscs javascript-jscs ".jscs.json"
  :safe #'stringp)
(flycheck-define-checker javascript-jscs
  "A JavaScript code style checker.
See URL `https://github.com/mdevils/node-jscs'."
  :command ("jscs" "--reporter" "checkstyle"
            (config-file "--config" flycheck-jscs)
            source)
  :error-parser flycheck-parse-checkstyle

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Based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/4158763/472153:

* brew tap homebrew/boneyard
* cd $( brew --prefix )

* brew versions docker
* git checkout 9ccfc7e Library/Formula/docker.rb
* brew unlink  docker
* brew install docker
* brew switch  docker 1.2.0

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;;　geeknote ==============================================================
(defun geeknote-mode ()
  (interactive)
  (eshell-command "python ~/geeknote/geeknote.py settings --editor /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient")
  )

(defun geeknote-create (newnote)
  (interactive "sname: ")
  (eshell-command
   (format "python ~/geeknote/geeknote.py create --content WRITE --title %s" newnote))

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am avendael on github.
• I am avendael (https://keybase.io/avendael) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 52BF 8E71 4373 26A9 3D81 B82A 9544 2179 8349 FFFF

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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(info "(elisp) Size Parameters")

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