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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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Lined Paper with CSS - Source : http://css3.wikidot.com/blog:lined-paper-with-css
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Repeating background gradient to give the effect of lines across the paper, and a pseudo element on the left to 
give the ruled margin.


.paper {
    font: normal 12px/1.5 "Lucida Grande", arial, sans-serif;
    width: 300px;
    margin: 0 auto 10px;

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ffmpeg -i <your movie file> -vf scale=1:1 <output folder>/%06d.png

convert +append <output folder>/* out.png

mogrify -scale x50\! out.png

Credit : https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3rb8zi/the_average_color_of_every_frame_of_a_given_movie/cwmn4q2

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upstream myapp {
    server 127.0.0.1:8081;
}

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=login:10m rate=1r/s;

server {
    listen 443 ssl spdy;
    server_name _;
  

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#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the active virtualenv
#    * the branch/status of the current git repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
#    * the fact you just came from Windows and are used to having newlines in
#      your prompts.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the active virtualenv
#    * the branch/status of the current mercurial repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
#
# USAGE:

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Backend Architectures

Twitter

ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

• Introduce Gizzard of Twitter - 트위터의 새로운 분산 관리 라이브러리 Gizzard를 소개합니다.
• The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster