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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

nz

#!/bin/sh

test_document="{
  \"text\": \"HEAR the sledges with the bells, / Silver bells! / What a world of merriment their melody foretells! / How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, / In the icy air of night! / While the stars, that oversprinkle / All the heavens, seem to twinkle / With a crystalline delight; / Keeping time, time, time, / In a sort of Runic rhyme, / To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells / From the bells, bells, bells, bells, / Bells, bells, bells— / From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.\"
}"

if curl -fs -X HEAD localhost:9200/top-terms; then
  echo "Clear the old test index"
  curl -X DELETE localhost:9200/top-terms; echo "\n"
fi

karmi

.DS_Store
tmp/

Veraticus

require 'tire/rails/logger'
require 'tire/queries/more_like_this'
Tire::Configuration.logger(STDOUT, level: :debug) if Rails.env.development?

ElasticSearchAnalysis = YAML.load_file('config/elasticsearch_analysis.yml').with_indifferent_access

Veraticus

analysis:
  filter:
    ngrams:
      side: front
      max_gram: 10
      min_gram: 1
      type: edgeNGram
  analyzer:
    full:
      tokenizer: standard

ryanb

module Abilities
  def self.ability_for(user)
    if user.admin?
      AdminAbility.new(user)
    else user
      MemberAbility.new(user)
    else
      GuestAbility.new
    end
  end

peter

# 0. Make sure you have Ruby 1.9.3 installed, and optionally RVM and PostgreSQL

# 0.2 If you are on the Mac, make sure you have a c compiler by installing XCode Command Line Tools or gcc4.2 with homebrew
# https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Custom-GCC-and-cross-compilers

# 0.5 Make sure you have bundler version ~> 1.2 as Rails depends on it
gem install bundler

# 1. Get edge Rails source (master branch)
git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git

dhh

class ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
  def draw(routes_name)
    instance_eval(File.read(Rails.root.join("config/routes/#{routes_name}.rb")))
  end
end

BCX::Application.routes.draw do
  draw :api
  draw :account
  draw :session

mikegrassotti

# FactoryGirl3ForYouAndMe
# The new syntax: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/19412394597/factory-girl-hits-3-0
#
# Where to learn sed?
# http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6
# http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2011/01/11/sed-across-multiple-files/
#
# What needs to change?
find . -type f -name "*.rb" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "Factory.create"
find . -type f -name "*.rb" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "Factory.build"