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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

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#compdef capp
#autoload

# Added `capp` because `cap` is a reserved word. `cap` completion doesn't work.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21353937/is-cap-a-reserved-word-zsh-completion?noredirect=1#comment32196838_21353937
# http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Modules.html#The-zsh_002fcap-Module

# https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/Capistrano-Tasks
# http://askql.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/zsh-writing-own-completion/

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class Blackbox < Formula
  homepage 'https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox'
  url 'https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox/archive/v1.20150730.tar.gz'
  sha256 'e410e3e7562a4291600d54057168125a59fdb5ef6af00334e2c2a6960759605b'

  def install
    rm 'bin/Makefile'
    bin.install Dir['bin/*']
  end

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Her::Model::Associations .....................................FFFFFF....
  1) Her::Model::Associations object returned by the association method doesnt mask the object's basic methods
     Failure/Error: Foo::User.new.tap { |user| user.role = associated_value }
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `empty?' for nil:NilClass
     # ./lib/her/model/associations/association.rb:47:in `fetch'
     # ./lib/her/model/associations/association_proxy.rb:18:in `is_a?'
     # ./lib/her/model/associations/association_proxy.rb:47:in `method_missing'
     # ./lib/her/model/attributes.rb:192:in `role='
     # ./lib/her/model/attributes.rb:78:in `method_missing'

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# ~/.bash_aliases
gempaths () 
{ 
    gemdir=`gem environment gemdir`/gems;
    paths='';
    for i in "$@";
    do
        paths="$paths `echo $gemdir/$i`";
    done;
    echo -e $paths

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case ${TERM}
  in xterm*|rxvt*|Eterm|aterm|kterm|gnome*|interix)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='update_terminal_cwd;GIT_BRANCH=`test -d .git \
      && git status --porcelain -b 2> /dev/null \
      | grep --color=never -e ''\#\# '' \
      | sed "s/^\#\#.\(.*\)/\ \(\1\)/" \
      | tr -d "\n"`'
    use_color=true
    # unset PROMPT_COMMAND
  ;;

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<?php
class AuthorizeNetCimException extends Exception {}

class AuthorizeNetCim {

	const PAYMENT_METHOD_CC    = 'credit_card';
	const PAYMENT_METHOD_BANK  = 'bank_account';
	const PAYMENT_METHOD_CHECK = 'check';

	const TEST_VALIDATION_MODE = 'testMode';