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isaacsanders / Equity.md
Created January 21, 2012 15:32
Joel Spolsky on Equity for Startups

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

@robotconscience
robotconscience / ofxLibwebsockets_socketio_client.h
Created September 30, 2014 16:52
Start of connecting ofxLibwebsockets with socket.io. Not finished and probably won't ever be...
#include "ofApp.h"
string sid = "";
//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::setup(){
ofSetLogLevel(OF_LOG_VERBOSE);
ofxLibwebsockets::ClientOptions opts = ofxLibwebsockets::defaultClientOptions();
opts.channel = "/socket.io/1/websocket?EIO=2&transport=websocket&sid=";
opts.port = 3000;
@harlow
harlow / golang_job_queue.md
Last active April 24, 2024 10:21
Job queues in Golang
@cecilemuller
cecilemuller / letsencrypt_2020.md
Last active July 2, 2024 20:47
How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SSL rating)

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)


Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

@drernie
drernie / csvtomap.go
Created March 10, 2017 22:48
Golang Convert CSV Records to Dictionaries using Header Row as Keys
// CSVToMap takes a reader and returns an array of dictionaries, using the header row as the keys
func CSVToMap(reader io.Reader) []map[string]string {
r := csv.NewReader(reader)
rows := []map[string]string{}
var header []string
for {
record, err := r.Read()
if err == io.EOF {
break
}
package tenancy
import (
"context"
"database/sql"
"database/sql/driver"
"errors"
"fmt"
"github.com/lib/pq"