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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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CODESWARM_DIR="/home/user/src/code_swarm/"

# extract from your git repo
git log --name-status --pretty=format:'%n------------------------------------------------------------------------%nr%h | %ae | %ai (%aD) | x lines%nChanged paths:' > $CODESWARM_DIR/data/activity.log

# convert to XML for CodeSwarm
python convert_logs/convert_logs.py \
         -g $CODESWARM_DIR/data/activity.log -o $CODESWARM_DIR/data/activity.xml

# create a new config that points to the correct input XML and saves snapshots

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# See https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files for more about ignoring files.
#
# If you find yourself ignoring temporary files generated by your text editor
# or operating system, you probably want to add a global ignore instead:
#   git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore_global'

.DS_Store

# Ignore bundler config.
/.bundle

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Frontend Development

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Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers

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#!/bin/sh

# we assume that we use system wide rvm installation (in /usr/local/rvm)
# and our application is deployed to /var/www/tld.appname directory

RVM_ENV="ruby-1.9.3-p0@gemset"
APP_DIR="tld.appname"

# load rvm
source /usr/local/rvm/environments/$RVM_ENV

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APP_PATH = "/var/www/tld.appname"

rails_env = ENV["RAILS_ENV"] || "development"

# 2 workers and 1 master
worker_processes 2

working_directory APP_PATH + "/current" # available in 0.94.0+

# Load rails+github.git into the master before forking workers

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Setup new Mac with OSX Lion from scratch

These commands are good as of 2011-07-27.

Install xcode 4

App store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12) The download/install takes awhile so start it first. When it finishes downloading you will still need to run it to complete installation.

iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/

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object Download extends Controller {
	import org.apache.commons.logging.Log
	import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
	import org.apache.hadoop.fs._

	import java.io.InputStream
	import java.net.URI
	import java.net.URLDecoder
	
	def download(filename: String) = {

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import Benchmark._

object App {
    def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
        benchmark(100000){
            report("foo"){ foo() } ::
            report("bar"){ bar() } ::
            Nil
        }
    }