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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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An example of using transition.styleTween to avoid using the computed style value, and instead use the style value as-set.

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class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments
end

class TwitterNotification < ActiveRecord::Observer
  observe :post
 
  def after_create post
    TwitterService.send_tweet post.subject
  end

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d3.unconf example gist. Fork it here.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "nokogiri"

# opens every file in the given dir tree and converts any html img tags to rails image_tag calls
#
# example usage: 
# ruby convert.rb ~/my_rails_app/app/views
#
# ***be careful and backup before using this***
#