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
All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.
elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParentelem.clientLeft, elem.clientTop, elem.clientWidth, elem.clientHeightelem.getClientRects(), elem.getBoundingClientRect()
| "use strict"; | |
| function freeze(o) { | |
| if(!Object.isFrozen(o)) { | |
| Object.freeze(o); | |
| } | |
| return o; | |
| } |
| // Paul Irish talking about Chrome DevTools Timeline's new Frame Mode | |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp524yo0p44 | |
| // Chrome Office Hours - troubleshooting paint times | |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_jD8nO5Zw | |
| // Break time to glass - youtube | |
| http://youtu.be/Il4swGfTOSM | |
| // Avoiding Unnecessary Paints |
| git branch -a --merged develop | grep remotes\/origin\/feature | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | xargs -n 1 git log --pretty=format:"%an - %d - %ar %n" -1 | sort | cat |
For conferences, it's extremely important that attendees get top-quality content from industry experts. As a highly compelling format of educating others based on experience and research, conferences stand to be one the best sources of refined knowledge available. Still, it's important for a successful event to have a few guidelines to ensure quality content from the best and most appropriate speakers. Below is a set of guidelines for conference organizers that ensure quality content for attendees and the community.
Video recordings: Organizers should prioritize recording all talks and sessions. A conference that only teaches the ~300 people in the room has constrained value and is not worthwhile to a speaker who wants to benefit the community. When recorded, video will be available online under a permissive license (CC-BY-*) within six months of the event.
Travel reimbursement: Conferences will reimburse travel
| /* | |
| * Customize Footnotify on your site by adding custom css. | |
| * | |
| * This file is NOT loaded by the script and must be | |
| * implemented on the site in order to apply. | |
| * | |
| * More info: https://gist.github.com/1046538 | |
| * | |
| */ |
| Dear soon-to-be-former user, | |
| We've got some fantastic news! Well, it's great news for us anyway. You, on | |
| the other hand, are fucked. | |
| We've just been acquired by: | |
| # clojurescript compiler from JRuby | |
| # see https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Quick-Start | |
| require 'java' | |
| CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME = File.dirname(__FILE__) | |
| $: << CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME | |
| %w{compiler.jar goog.jar js.jar clj cljs}.each {|path| $CLASSPATH << CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME + "/" + path} | |
| require 'clojure' |