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

dreikanter

Symmetic encryption

For symmetic encryption, you can use the following:

To encrypt:

openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -a -e -in plaintext.txt -out encrypted.txt

To decrypt:

jamtur01

These are the Kickstarter Engineering and Data role definitions for both teams.

Technical	Data	People
Junior Software Engineer
Software Engineer	Data Analyst
Senior Software Engineer	Data Scientist	Engineering Manager
Staff Engineer	VP of Data	Engineering Director
Principal Engineer		CTO

benkulbertis

#!/bin/bash

# CHANGE THESE
auth_email="user@example.com"
auth_key="c2547eb745079dac9320b638f5e225cf483cc5cfdda41" # found in cloudflare account settings
zone_name="example.com"
record_name="www.example.com"

# MAYBE CHANGE THESE
ip=$(curl -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com)

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

virtualstaticvoid

# Modify this file accordingly for your specific requirement.
# http://www.thegeekstuff.com
# 1. Delete all existing rules
iptables -F

# 2. Set default chain policies
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

codebrainz

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H			[a-fA-F0-9]
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dmattera

This list was auto-generated on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) using a script that did the following:

1. grabbed the name of all the .plist files located in the 5 folders used by launchctl:

• ~/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the user.
• /Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the administrator.
• /Library/LaunchDaemons System wide daemons provided by the administrator.
• /System/Library/LaunchAgents OS X Per-user agents.
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nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)