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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

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// Develop our JS here

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Angular Workshop

An Brief Introduction

Objective
To identify the basic compenents of a Angular application and integrate them together in a manner that creates a canonical example for one to further develop or rexamine afterward.

Outline

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Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

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var app = require('http').createServer(handler);
var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);
var fs = require('fs');

app.listen(8080);

function handler (req, res) {
        fs.readFile(__dirname + '/index.html', function(err, data) {
                if (err) {
                        res.writeHead(500);

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##Pothole App

api's: google maps or leaflet

Amazon S3 (or paperclip)- photo storage

Twitter api

O-auth for user signin / Simple O-auth

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#Debugging (Use The Duck… )

Find the errors in the following

1.) link rel="stylesheet"

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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#     ,o888888o.     8 8888      88  8 8888  8888888888',8888' 
#  . 8888     `88.   8 8888      88  8 8888         ,8',8888'  
# ,8 8888       `8b  8 8888      88  8 8888        ,8',8888'   
# 88 8888        `8b 8 8888      88  8 8888       ,8',8888'    
# 88 8888         88 8 8888      88  8 8888      ,8',8888'     
# 88 8888     `8. 88 8 8888      88  8 8888     ,8',8888'      
# 88 8888      `8,8P 8 8888      88  8 8888    ,8',8888'       
# `8 8888       ;8P  ` 8888     ,8P  8 8888   ,8',8888'        
#  ` 8888     ,88'8.   8888   ,d8P   8 8888  ,8',8888'         

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Always setup your layouts in your rails app/views/layouts/application.html.erb file

when you want to create a seperate layout different from the rest (say, a splash page), create a new layout file and introduce a different yield.

app/views/layouts/spalsh.html.erb.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11805214/how-to-switch-out-rails-layouts