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
| # From a fresh install of squeeze | |
| apt-get install ruby rubygems # Need ruby to use fpm | |
| gem1.8 install fpm --no-ri --no-rdoc | |
| apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev ncurses-dev libyaml-dev | |
| wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz | |
| tar -zxvf ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz | |
| cd ruby-1.9.3-p125 | |
| rm -rf /tmp/ruby193 |
As configured in my dotfiles.
start new:
tmux
start new with session name:
| class Syslogger | |
| def initialize | |
| read, @write = IO.pipe | |
| fork do | |
| @write.close | |
| $stdin.reopen read | |
| exec *%w(logger -trails) | |
| end | |
| read.close |