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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

If you'd like to experiment with Terraform on macOS locally, a great provider for doing so is the Docker provider. You can get set up in a few simple steps, like so:

1. Install Docker

Install Docker for Mac if you have not already.

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We built this thing to make coding interviews suck less

The traditional technical interview process is designed to ferret out a candidate's weaknesses whereas the process should be designed to find a candidate's strengths.

No one can possibly master all of the arcana of today's technology landscape, let alone bring that mastery to bear on a problem under pressure and with no tools other than a whiteboard.

Under those circumstances, everyone can make anyone look like an idiot.

The fundamental problem with the traditional technical interview process is that it is based on a chain of inference that seems reasonable but is in fact deeply flawed. That chain goes something like this:

Introduction

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My beef with composer and Magento

Magento has recently merged an architecture proposal with the goal of removing non-composer modules.
At first this seems like a good idea, but I think there are some problems.

Community Bias

Magento listens to the community. That is a good thing.

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Conferences

Hydraconf

Summer School

Summer school on practice and theory of Distributed Computing

Books

0. In the beginning, there was the middle...

You're jumping into a novel at about Chapter 6. And no, that's not because you missed the earlier chapters. I am only writing it now because it has finally become something worth recording (and hopefully reading). First, let me assure you that this is neither a theoretical exercise, nor a vague description of a "stealth" project. In short order you will be introduced to the current prototype that has already demonstrated many of the original project goals. And there will be plenty of pictures (please ignore the fact that this post has approximately 0 pictures 😬).

This project started out as somewhat of an experiment, or rather, it was a means to scratch an itch that had been bothering me for a few years:

What does it take to make an autopilot sufficiently reliable, affordable, and integratable enough to be extremely useful?

Or written as more of a challenge:

Can I create an autopilot that I could trust, afford, and would actually want t

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