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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

upsert / merge (data) is called
- validate data with schema
- create transaction
- set new value
- add key to 'sync-queue' list : [{key, value}]
- publish 'trigger-sync' event
- execute transaction
worker event listener receives an 'entity-update' event
- if current < limit, spawn a 'sync-worker' instance
worker executes lua script (STEP A)

	#---------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Example configuration for a possible web application. See the
	# full configuration options online.
	#
	# http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt
	#
	#---------------------------------------------------------------------

	#---------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Global settings

	# HAProxy config

	mkdir /etc/haproxy
	cat > /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg << EOF
	global
	maxconn 4096

	defaults
	mode http

	// navigator.cookieEnabled cannot detect custom or nuanced cookie blocking
	// configurations. For example, when blocking cookies via the Advanced
	// Privacy Settings in IE9, it always returns true. And there have been
	// issues in the past with site-specific exceptions.
	// Don't rely on it.

	// try..catch because some in situations `document.cookie` is exposed but throws a
	// SecurityError if you try to access it; e.g. documents created from data URIs
	// or in sandboxed iframes (depending on flags/context)
	try {

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import redis
	import random
	import pylibmc
	import sys

	r = redis.Redis(host = 'localhost', port = 6389)
	mc = pylibmc.Client(['localhost:11222'])

	https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6004915/how-do-i-move-a-redis-database-from-one-server-to-another

	Save a spanshot of the database into a dump.rdb by either running BGSAVE or SAVE from the command line. This will create a file named dump.rdb in the same folder as your redis server. See a list of all server commands.

	Copy this dump.rdb to the other redis server you want to migrate to. When redis starts up, it looks for this file to initialize the database from

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	First, create a dump on server A.