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yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active April 7, 2024 22:55
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

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

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

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1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x
@avafloww
avafloww / PhpJava.java
Last active October 16, 2022 18:50
This snippet of code is syntactically valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both.
/*<?php
//*/public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/*%s",
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
class PhpJava {
static function main() {
echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
"Hello World!");
}}
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
PhpJava::main();
@prakhar1989
prakhar1989 / richhickey.md
Last active November 8, 2023 17:19 — forked from stijlist/gist:bb932fb93e22fe6260b2
richhickey.md

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 24, 2024 07:56
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@skwp
skwp / dynamic_method_spec.rb
Created December 7, 2013 00:44
Fail your build for user-defined style rules.
require 'spec/support/grep_matcher'
describe do
disallow_presence_of pattern: "send(.*#",
location: "app/",
description: "Do not use dynamic method invocations",
failure: "Please change dynamic method call to something more sane."
end
@malclocke
malclocke / gist:943565
Created April 27, 2011 01:31 — forked from schacon/gist:942899
delete all remote branches that have already been merged into master
$ git branch -r --merged |
awk -F'/' '/^ *origin/{if(!match($0, /(>|master)/)){print $2}}' |
xargs git push origin --delete