isaacsanders

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

nmcclain

#!/bin/sh

# Converts a mysqldump file into a Sqlite 3 compatible file. It also extracts the MySQL `KEY xxxxx` from the
# CREATE block and create them in separate commands _after_ all the INSERTs.

# Awk is choosen because it's fast and portable. You can use gawk, original awk or even the lightning fast mawk.
# The mysqldump file is traversed only once.

# Usage: $ ./mysql2sqlite mysqldump-opts db-name | sqlite3 database.sqlite
# Example: $ ./mysql2sqlite --no-data -u root -pMySecretPassWord myDbase | sqlite3 database.sqlite

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

kachayev

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    auth "github.com/abbot/go-http-auth"
)

func Secret(user, realm string) string {
    if user == "john" {

danrigsby

packer build packer.json 2>&1 | sudo tee output.txt
tail -2 output.txt | head -2 | awk 'match($0, /ami-.*/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH) }' > sudo ami.txt

tsenart

package main

import (
	"net/http"
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
)

stevebowman

console.log('Loading event');

// Twilio Credentials 
var accountSid = '';
var authToken = '';
var fromNumber = '';

var https = require('https');
var queryString = require('querystring');

mnot

Edward Snowden at IETF 93

Edward Snowden answered questions after a showing of CITIZENFOUR at the IETF93 meeting; this is a transcript of the video recording.

For more information, see the Internet Society article.

• Introduction
• Scale of Pervasive Monitoring
• Returning to the US
• Preserving the Internet

cfenollosa

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
// Script to postpone your own email. Parses IMAP folders and moves emails to a folder named "Today"
// Run this from a crontab, for example at 6 AM

// BSD License
// (C) Carlos Fenollosa, 2011-2016
// Read more about this script: http://cfenollosa.com/blog/a-simple-script-to-postpone-your-own-email.html
// Please leave comments and feedback for bugs and ideas!