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
| zpl2-encode 123456789 '2016-8-26_D1_C2_homog_exp' --font D --xoffset=300 --yoffset=10 --bcheight=30 --padding=10 --fontx=5 --fonty=5 | lpr -P zebrazpl -o raw |
| ### Keybase proof | |
| I hereby claim: | |
| * I am kislyuk on github. | |
| * I am kislyuk (https://keybase.io/kislyuk) on keybase. | |
| * I have a public key whose fingerprint is B485 C6C4 486E 7AED D36C 5113 4F53 A680 DE2B E41C | |
| To claim this, I am signing this object: |
| #!/bin/bash -e | |
| PV=5.10.1-8ubuntu2 | |
| for PN in libperl-dev libperl5.10 perl-base perl; do | |
| wget "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/${PN}_${PV}_amd64.deb" | |
| dpkg --install --force-all "${PN}_${PV}_amd64.deb" | |
| done | |
| for PN in perl-modules; do |
| >./test.py | |
| <Element '{http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.8/}sitename' at 0x7f05e97a9398> | |
| RPython traceback: | |
| File "rpython_jit_metainterp_pyjitpl.c", line 19287, in MIFrame_run_one_step | |
| File "rpython_jit_metainterp_pyjitpl.c", line 34476, in handler_residual_call_ir_i | |
| File "rpython_jit_metainterp_pyjitpl_1.c", line 30019, in MIFrame_do_residual_call | |
| File "rpython_jit_metainterp_pyjitpl_1.c", line 51156, in MetaInterp_vrefs_after_residual_call | |
| File "rpython_jit_metainterp_pyjitpl_2.c", line 4017, in MetaInterp_stop_tracking_virtualref | |
| Fatal RPython error: AssertionError | |
| Aborted (core dumped) |
| # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation | |
| # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 | |
| # $Header: $ | |
| EAPI=4 | |
| MY_HASH=885c33a | |
| EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/broadgsa/gatk.git" |
| # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation | |
| # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 | |
| # $Header: $ | |
| EAPI=4 | |
| MY_HASH=885c33a | |
| EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/broadgsa/gatk.git" |
| root@ip-10-85-129-240:~# lxc-create --name u6 -t ubuntu -f /usr/share/doc/lxc/examples/lxc-veth.conf | tee ~/u6.log | |
| debootstrap is /usr/sbin/debootstrap | |
| Checking cache download in /var/cache/lxc/oneiric/rootfs-amd64 ... | |
| Copy /var/cache/lxc/oneiric/rootfs-amd64 to /var/lib/lxc/u6/rootfs ... | |
| Copying rootfs to /var/lib/lxc/u6/rootfs ...Please change root-password ! | |
| Reading package lists... | |
| Building dependency tree... | |
| The following NEW packages will be installed: | |
| lxcguest | |
| 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |
| ubuntu@ip-10-85-129-240:~$ sudo lxc-execute -n u5 -- /bin/bash -c "echo foo > /check" | |
| lxc-execute: No such file or directory - failed to exec /usr/lib/lxc/lxc-init | |
| lxc-execute: invalid sequence number 1. expected 2 | |
| lxc-execute: failed to spawn 'u5' | |
| ubuntu@ip-10-85-129-240:~$ lxc-start^C | |
| ubuntu@ip-10-85-129-240:~$ sudo lxc-start -n u5 | |
| * Setting up resolvconf... | |
| ...done. | |
| Ubuntu 11.10 u5 /dev/console |