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

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Rich-Harris

Stuff I wish I'd known sooner about service workers

I recently had several days of extremely frustrating experiences with service workers. Here are a few things I've since learned which would have made my life much easier but which isn't particularly obvious from most of the blog posts and videos I've seen.

I'll add to this list over time – suggested additions welcome in the comments or via twitter.com/rich_harris.

Use Canary for development instead of Chrome stable

Chrome 51 has some pretty wild behaviour related to console.log in service workers. Canary doesn't, and it has a load of really good service worker related stuff in devtools.

JasonGhent

# pulled from  http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
# expanded via http://superuser.com/questions/690060/how-to-enable-network-with-a-raspberry-pi-emulated-on-qemu
# tested with  2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy.zip on OSX Mavericks

# OSX terminal
brew install qemu
# kernel-qemu is a linux kernel compiled with ARM1176 support.
# learn more here: http://xecdesign.com/compiling-a-kernel/
curl -OL http://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu
curl -o raspbian_latest.zip -L http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

danawoodman

WebSockets + Reflux + React

Using WebSockets, React and Reflux together can be a beautiful thing, but the intial setup can be a bit of a pain. The below examples attempt to offer one (arguably enjoyable) way to use these tools together.

Overview

This trifect works well if you think of things like so:

1. Reflux Store: The store fetches, updates and persists data. A store can be a list of items or a single item. Most of the times you reach for this.state in react should instead live within stores. Stores can listen to other stores as well as to events being fired.
2. Reflux Actions: Actions are triggered by components when the component wants to change the state of the store. A store listens to actions and can listen to more than one set of actions.

danharper

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var watchify = require('watchify');
var babel = require('babelify');

function compile(watch) {
  var bundler = watchify(browserify('./src/index.js', { debug: true }).transform(babel));

Zulko

"""
This creates the following GIF, where the text appears to be "embedded"
in the video and "disappears" behind rapunzel.

http://i.imgur.com/gxEHfLX.gif
"""

from moviepy.editor import *
import numpy as np
import skimage.morphology as skm

bobbygrace

Hello, visitors! If you want an updated version of this styleguide in repo form with tons of real-life examples… check out Trellisheets! https://github.com/trello/trellisheets

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Trello CSS Guide

“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”

You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

oakes

Contents

• Why care about Rust?
• The Toolchain
• Creating a New Project
• Modules
• Crates
• Types
• References
• Mutability

wvengen

#!/bin/sh
# extend non-HiDPI external display on DP* above HiDPI internal display eDP*
# see also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
# you may run into https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949
#                  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/883319

EXT=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^eDP | head -n 1`
INT=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^DP | head -n 1`

ext_w=`xrandr | sed 's/^'"${EXT}"' [^0-9]* \([0-9]\+\)x.*$/\1/p;d'`