Evan Reeves JadedEvan

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

Self Signed Certificate

Generate a new RSA key of 4096 bits. Adding the -des3 (or any other cipher) requires that the key have a password issued:

openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

Generate a new CSR (Certificate Signed Request)

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

`find` commands

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*(rb|js)$"

Find all files ending in .rb or .js.

find . -name "*js" -o -name "*rb"

Same as above, not using regular expressions.

Buffer Settings

:set scrolloffset=30
:set scrolloffset=999
:set so=0

Sets the offset when scrolling through a document. A value of 30 will keep a marginal amount of space while scrolling, a value of 999 will keep the cursor centered in the screen, a value of 0 restores Vim's default behavior. All of the above can be added to your ~/.vimrc file to set editor defaults. Vim wikia - scroll centering

Additional buffer settings

	use std::num;


	struct Vector {
	x:f32,
	y:f32,
	z:f32
	}

	impl Vector {