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

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

xavierjurado

Gitlab Gmail configuration

In Gitlab 2.6 you must edit the following files in order to send messages through a Gmail account (also applicable to Google Apps accounts).

config/environments/production.rb

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true

cespare

type ApacheLogRecord struct {
	http.ResponseWriter

	ip                    string
	time                  time.Time
	method, uri, protocol string
	status                int
	responseBytes         int64
	elapsedTime           time.Duration
}

lukewpatterson

Tricks to add encrypted private SSH key to .travis.yml file


To encrypt the private SSH key into the "-secure: xxxxx....." lines to place in the .travis.yml file, generate a deploy key then run: (to see what the encrypted data looks like, see an example here: https://github.com/veewee-community/veewee-push/blob/486102e6f508214b04414074c921475e5943f682/.travis.yml#L21

base64 --wrap=0 ~/.ssh/id_rsa > ~/.ssh/id_rsa_base64
ENCRYPTION_FILTER="echo \$(echo \"-\")\$(travis encrypt veewee-community/veewee-push \"\$FILE='\`cat $FILE\`'\" | grep secure:)"
split --bytes=100 --numeric-suffixes --suffix-length=2 --filter="$ENCRYPTION_FILTER" ~/.ssh/id_rsa_base64 id_rsa_

Voles

RB.filter('daterange', function ()
{
  return function(conversations, start_date, end_date)
	{
		var result = [];

		// date filters
		var start_date = (start_date && !isNaN(Date.parse(start_date))) ? Date.parse(start_date) : 0;
		var end_date = (end_date && !isNaN(Date.parse(end_date))) ? Date.parse(end_date) : new Date().getTime();

webdesserts

// NOTE: I previously suggested doing this through Grunt, but had plenty of problems with
// my set up. Grunt did some weird things with scope, and I ended up using nodemon. This
// setup is now using Gulp. It works exactly how I expect it to and is WAY more concise.
var gulp = require('gulp'),
    spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
    node;

/**
 * $ gulp server
 * description: launch the server. If there's a server already running, kill it.

petermanser

Gitlab 5.4 - Gmail configuration

In order to send messages through a Gmail account (also applicable to Google Apps accounts) add the following parts to your config files:

Files:

• config/environments/production.rb
• config/gitlab.yml

timoyuen

import com.lmax.disruptor.dsl.Disruptor
import java.util.concurrent.Executors
import com.lmax.disruptor._

case class ValueEvent(var value: Long)

case class ValueEventTranslator(value: Long) extends EventTranslator[ValueEvent] {
  def translateTo(event: ValueEvent, sequence: Long) = {
    event.value = value
    event

tadast

# 1) Create your private key (any password will do, we remove it below)

$ cd ~/.ssh
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.orig.key 2048


# 2) Remove the password

$ openssl rsa -in server.orig.key -out server.key