jdmaturen

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

ebidel

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This demo shows two ways to detect changes to a DOM node `.textContent`, one
using a `MutationObserver` and the other using an ES2015 `Proxy`.

From testing, a `Proxy` appears to be 6-8x faster than using a MO in Chrome 50.

**Update**: removing the `Proxy` altogether speeds up the MO to be inline with the Proxy.
This has something to do with how the browser queues/prioritizes Proxies over MO.

staltz

import {Observable, Disposable} from 'rx';
import {run} from '@cycle/core'
const jsondiffpatch = require('jsondiffpatch').create({
  objectHash: function(obj) {
    return obj.name;
  }
});

function generateCurve(steps){
  var curve = new Float32Array(steps)

rsms

Taste for Makers

Paul Graham, February 2002

"...Copernicus' aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system...."

• Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution

"All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way."

• Ben Rich, Skunk Works

devknoll

import { graphql, GraphQLString, GraphQLInt } from 'graphql';
import { objectType, enumType, schemaFrom, listOf } from 'graphql-schema';
import request from 'promisingagent';

const repositorySortEnum = enumType('RepositorySort')
  .value('CREATED', 'created')
  .value('UPDATED', 'updated')
  .value('PUSHED', 'pushed')
  .value('FULL_NAME', 'full_name')
  .end();

mikelehen

/**
 * Fancy ID generator that creates 20-character string identifiers with the following properties:
 *
 * 1. They're based on timestamp so that they sort *after* any existing ids.
 * 2. They contain 72-bits of random data after the timestamp so that IDs won't collide with other clients' IDs.
 * 3. They sort *lexicographically* (so the timestamp is converted to characters that will sort properly).
 * 4. They're monotonically increasing.  Even if you generate more than one in the same timestamp, the
 *    latter ones will sort after the former ones.  We do this by using the previous random bits
 *    but "incrementing" them by 1 (only in the case of a timestamp collision).
 */

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?

isaacs

# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

psayre23

Below are the Big O performance of common functions of different Java Collections.


List                 | Add  | Remove | Get  | Contains | Next | Data Structure
---------------------|------|--------|------|----------|------|---------------
ArrayList            | O(1) |  O(n)  | O(1) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Array
LinkedList           | O(1) |  O(1)  | O(n) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Linked List
CopyOnWriteArrayList | O(n) |  O(n)  | O(1) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Array

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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