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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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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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I recently received a job offer from Amazon AWS. The pay and benefits are quite decent. I do really like the role and it would be work that interests me. The people that I have met so far in interviews are great.

What I do not like is the documents I have to sign to get started. They include stuff like this:

"ATTENTION AND EFFORT. During employment, Employee will devote Employee’s entire productive time, ability, attention, and effort to

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Code	Title	Duration	Link
Keynote	Andy Jassy Keynote Announcement Recap	0:01	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCxKAM2GtQ
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Andy Jassy	2:22	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrbUyw9uSg
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Werner Vogels	2:16	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDScBNahsL4
Keynote	[Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton](h

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# Simulate fake processes of analysis sandbox/VM that some malware will try to evade
# This just spawn ping.exe with different names (wireshark.exe, vboxtray.exe, ...)
# It's just a PoC and it's ugly as f*ck but hey, if it works...

# Usage: .\fake_sandbox.ps1 -action {start,stop}

param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$action)

$fakeProcesses = @("wireshark.exe", "vmacthlp.exe", "VBoxService.exe",
    "VBoxTray.exe", "procmon.exe", "ollydbg.exe", "vmware-tray.exe",

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NextBus API

http://www.nextbus.com/xmlFeedDocs/NextBusXMLFeed.pdf

Agency list

http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command=agencyList

Obtain a list of available transit agencies.

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API	Status Codes
[Twitter][tw]	200, 304, 400, 401, 403, 404, 406, 410, 420, 422, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504
[Stripe][stripe]	200, 400, 401, 402, 404, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504
[Github][gh]	200, 400, 422, 301, 302, 304, 307, 401, 403
[Pagerduty][pd]	200, 201, 204, 400, 401, 403, 404, 408, 500
[NewRelic Plugins][nr]	200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 413, 500, 502, 503, 503
[Etsy][etsy]	200, 201, 400, 403, 404, 500, 503
[Dropbox][db]	200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 429, 503, 507

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var aws = require('aws-sdk');
var db = new aws.DynamoDB();

exports.handler = function(signup, context) {
    console.log('Received signup:', JSON.stringify(signup, null, 2));
    
    var query = {
        TableName: 'Signups',
        Item: {
            Id: { 'S': signup.id },

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-module(gproc_tests).
-compile(export_all).
-include_lib("stdlib/include/qlc.hrl").

go() -> make:all([load]).

register_stuff() ->
    gproc:reg({n, l, key1}, value1),
    gproc:reg({n, l, key2}, value2),
    gproc:reg({n, l, key3}, value3),

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# wiki page
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contract

# Nick Szabo essays
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_idea.html
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/smart.contracts.html
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html

# secure multiparty computation in bitcoin
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/784.pdf