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

alekstorm

Installation

To install, place datadog.py in your callback plugins directory. If you don't yet have one, run:

mkdir -p plugins/callback

Then place the following in your ansible.cfg file:

[defaults]

callback_plugins = ./plugins/callback

gdamjan

'''
Go to https://code.google.com/apis/console/ and:
- create a new project, 
- enable access to the calendar api, 
- create a "service account" - that will give you an:
  * "email address" which is the service_account_name and
  * a private key that you need to save on you server
- go to the calendar and share it with the "email address" from above

Make sure your time is synchronized.

St3ph-fr

// #GoogleAppsScript #Gscript #GoogleSpreadsheet
//from google help page : https://developers.google.com/apps-script/scriptdb

function deleteAll() {
   var db = ScriptDb.getMyDb();
   while (true) {
     var result = db.query({}); 
     if (result.getSize() == 0) {
       break;
     }

aliang

_complete_ssh_hosts ()
{
        COMPREPLY=()
        cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
        comp_ssh_hosts=`cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \
                        cut -f 1 -d ' ' | \
                        sed -e s/,.*//g | \
                        grep -v ^# | \
                        uniq | \
                        grep -v "\[" ;

actsasbuffoon

// This is shamelessly copied from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263743/how-to-get-cursor-position-in-textarea#answer-3373056
function getInputSelection(el) {
  var start = 0, end = 0, normalizedValue, range, textInputRange, len, endRange;
  if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number" && typeof el.selectionEnd == "number") {
    start = el.selectionStart;
    end = el.selectionEnd;
  }
  else {
    range = document.selection.createRange();
    if (range && range.parentElement() == el) {