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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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	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# dockerpsns - proof of concept for a "docker ps --namespaces".
	#
	# USAGE: ./dockerpsns.sh
	#
	# This lists containers, their init PIDs, and namespace IDs. If container
	# namespaces equal the host namespace, they are colored red (this can be
	# disabled by setting color=0 below).
	#

	package main

	import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	)

	type Something interface{}

	#! /usr/bin/env bash

	# Create the container with a long running process. If PID1 exists before
	# we send the exec commands, they will fail because the container is not running
	#
	CONTAINER_NAME="TEST-`uuidgen`"
	curl --silent --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock "http:/containers/create?name=${CONTAINER_NAME}" -XPOST \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	-d '{
	"Image": "ruby:latest",

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding:utf-8 --

	import re
	import sys
	import requests

	reload(sys)
	sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import subprocess


	__all__ = ["transform"]
	__version__ = '0.3'
	__author__ = 'Christoph Burgmer <[email protected]>'
	__url__ = 'http://github.com/cburgmer/upsidedown'

	# Swap pod for any resource you need to iterate over. (ie daemonset, deployment)

	kubectl get pods --all-namespaces \| tail -n+2 \| awk '{print $1 " " $2}' \| xargs -L1 bash -c "kubectl patch -n \$0 pod/\$1 --type=merge -p \$(kubectl get -n \$0 pod/\$1 -o json \| jq -Mcr '.metadata.finalizers // [] \| {metadata:{finalizers:map(select(. != \"name-of-bad-finalizer\"))}}')"

	import time

	from flask import Flask, request, g, render_template

	app = Flask(__name__)
	app.config['DEBUG'] = True

	@app.before_request
	def before_request():
	g.request_start_time = time.time()

	#!/bin/bash
	# bash generate random alphanumeric string
	#

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
	NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1)

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
	cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1