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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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{
  ":)": "🙂",
  ":-)": "🙂",
  "(:": "🙂",
  ":D": "😄",
  ":-D": "😄",
  "=D": "😃",
  "=-D": "😃",
  ":')": "😂",
  ":'-)": "😂",

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#/usr/bin/sh

for f in *.webm; do
mv -- "$f" "${f%.webm}.mp4"
done

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Deep Dive into NUSMods

Ever wondered how the timetabling algorithm of NUSMods works? Read on to find out.

Firstly start let's define the data representation of a Lesson:

Lesson = {
  ClassNo: string,
 DayText: string,

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'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
var webserver = require('gulp-webserver');

gulp.task('sass', function () {
  return gulp.src('./sass/**/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass().on('error', sass.logError))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'));

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var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = '//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js';
script.onload = function () {
  // Do something
}
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

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## Directory structure:
## dir
## |-- gen_runes.py
## |-- graphics.py
## |-- PyGif.py
## +-- runes.py

## Put submissions in the same directory as this file.
## Make sure there are no other .py files besides
## the submissions and the whitelisted files

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#!/bin/bash
#
# This script configures WordPress file permissions based on recommendations
# from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions
#
# Author: Michael Conigliaro <mike [at] conigliaro [dot] org>
#
WP_OWNER=www-data # <-- wordpress owner
WP_GROUP=www-data # <-- wordpress group
WP_ROOT=$1 # <-- wordpress root directory

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// From http://www.science.co.il/International/Country-codes.asp

var data = {};
var trs = document.querySelectorAll('table.sortable tbody tr');

for (var i = 0; i < trs.length; i++) {
  var item = trs[i];
  var tds = item.querySelectorAll('td');
  data[tds[2].textContent] = {
    name: tds[0].textContent,

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//  "body-parser": "^1.4.3",
//  "express": "^4.4.5",
//  "request": "^2.67.0"

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
var http = require('http');