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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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What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Element

Box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
• elem.clientLeft, elem.clientTop, elem.clientWidth, elem.clientHeight
• elem.getClientRects(), elem.getBoundingClientRect()

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"use strict";

function freeze(o) {
  if(!Object.isFrozen(o)) {
    Object.freeze(o);
  }
  return o;
}

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// Paul Irish talking about Chrome DevTools Timeline's new Frame Mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp524yo0p44

// Chrome Office Hours - troubleshooting paint times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_jD8nO5Zw

// Break time to glass - youtube
http://youtu.be/Il4swGfTOSM

// Avoiding Unnecessary Paints

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git branch -a --merged develop | grep remotes\/origin\/feature | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | xargs -n 1 git log --pretty=format:"%an - %d - %ar %n" -1 | sort | cat

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Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt

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Open Conference Expectations

For conferences, it's extremely important that attendees get top-quality content from industry experts. As a highly compelling format of educating others based on experience and research, conferences stand to be one the best sources of refined knowledge available. Still, it's important for a successful event to have a few guidelines to ensure quality content from the best and most appropriate speakers. Below is a set of guidelines for conference organizers that ensure quality content for attendees and the community.

What We, As Speakers, Expect from Conferences

1. Video recordings: Organizers should prioritize recording all talks and sessions. A conference that only teaches the ~300 people in the room has constrained value and is not worthwhile to a speaker who wants to benefit the community. When recorded, video will be available online under a permissive license (CC-BY-*) within six months of the event.

2. Travel reimbursement: Conferences will reimburse travel

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/*
 * Customize Footnotify on your site by adding custom css.
 * 
 * This file is NOT loaded by the script and must be
 * implemented on the site in order to apply.
 *
 * More info: https://gist.github.com/1046538
 *
 */

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Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter

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# clojurescript compiler from JRuby
# see https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Quick-Start

require 'java'

CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME = File.dirname(__FILE__)
$: << CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME
%w{compiler.jar goog.jar js.jar clj cljs}.each {|path| $CLASSPATH << CLOJURESCRIPT_HOME + "/" + path}

require 'clojure'