yossorion

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

coolaj86

Please petition Github to support HTTPS on github pages: https://github.com/contact

Here's what I wrote:

Obviously, a lot of people want HTTPS for github pages:

• isaacs/github#156

Until recently, that would be difficult to implement but, as it turns out, the implementation is pretty much complete:

• https://letsencrypt.org >* https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview

alliejones

import sys
import csv
import os

rows = []
input_file = sys.argv[1]

rows.append([ 'Date', 'Payee', 'Category', 'Memo', 'Outflow', 'Inflow' ])

with open(input_file, 'rb') as f:

jeffbr13

---
- hosts: all

  sudo: yes

  vars:
    - db_name: ckan_default
    - db_user: ckan_default
    - db_password: ckan_default
    - ckan_package_filename: 'python-ckan_2.2_amd64.deb'

zmwangx

Markdown, LaTeX, etc.

Caution

• (10/30/2016) I am not sure when and how this gist gained quite a few stars... But as stated in the v1.13 change log (from 06/16/2015): some content may be outdated, and I am not going to fix them. Moreover, having learned much myself, I do not necessarily agree with every point made in this document from 2.5 years ago. Therefore, please take views from this document with a grain of salt, and do further research as you see fit.

• This document was initally written for a friend of mine, Jiawen Li, so it might reflect some personal tastes here and there. For instance, some discussions are geared towards Windows, though *nix is obviously superior. For another example, when I say "you seem to love Sublime Text a lot," I'm certainly not expecting most people to love Sublime (in fact I never used it for more than three minutes in a row).

• This document is written in Markdown. The Markdown rendering engine on GitHub Gist is somewhat limited a

amercader

# Ansible playbook for updating a source-installed CKAN site
#
# Generally used to update beta.ckan.org and master.ckan.org on the staging
# server (currently s084), but it can be easily adapted to your own deployment
# needs.
#
# Add the staging server IP tp your /etc/ansible/hosts file (check if the IP
# is up to date):
#
#   [staging]

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
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

benatkin

// Place user-specific overrides in this file, to ensure they're preserved
// when upgrading
{
  "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", "node_modules"]
}