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

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

joecampo

If you're not familiar: What is fail2ban? fail2ban is an awesome linux service/monitor that scans log files (e.g. auth.log for SSH) for potentially malicious behavior. Once fail2ban is tripped it will ban users for a specified duration by adding rules to Iptables. If you're unfamiliar with fail2ban Chris Fidao has a wonderful (& free!) series about security including setting up fail2ban here.

Recently Laravel released a new feature in 5.1 to throttle authentication attempts by simply adding a trait to your authentication controller. The Laravel throttle trait uses the inputted username, and IP address to throttle attempts. I love seeing this added to a framework out of the box, but what about some of our other apps not built on Laravel? Like a WordPress login? Or even an open API etc.? Ultimately,

torgeir

Note where home is

(RaspberryPi2)root@localhost:~# df -h /home/
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p4   1.6G 1.3G   160M  89% /oem

(RaspberryPi2)root@localhost:~# df -h

buhman

localhost ~ # cat <<EOF> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
update_config=1
EOF
localhost ~ # wpa_supplicant -iwlp1s0 -Dnl80211 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
localhost ~ # wpa_cli
wpa_cli v2.0
Copyright (c) 2004-2012, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors

atenni

Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/
• Works even when you change the filename.

To get a file from multi–file gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

dwbuiten

#!/bin/sh -e

# Replace with whatever versions you need
ZEN_VERSION=0.4.29
LIB_VERSION=0.7.63
MED_VERSION=0.7.63
PREFIX=/usr/local

wget http://mediaarea.net/download/source/libzen/${ZEN_VERSION}/libzen_${ZEN_VERSION}.tar.bz2
wget http://mediaarea.net/download/source/libmediainfo/${LIB_VERSION}/libmediainfo_${LIB_VERSION}.tar.bz2

gist:5423293

class Dp:
    my_attr = 'foo'

funs = []
for attr in ('my_attr', 'doesnt_exist', 'my_attr'):
    funs.append(lambda obj: getattr(dp, attr))

dp = Dp()
for fun in funs:
    print fun(dp)

lbolla

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from functools import partial, wraps
import time

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web


EXECUTOR = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4)

harperreed

Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble