George Nurijanian gnurio

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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Tinder API documentation

Note: this was written in April/May 2014 and the API may has definitely changed since. I have nothing to do with Tinder, nor its API, and I do not offer any support for anything you may build on top of this. Proceed with caution

http://rsty.org/

I've sniffed most of the Tinder API to see how it works. You can use this to create bots (etc) very trivially. Some example python bot code is here -> https://gist.github.com/rtt/5a2e0cfa638c938cca59 (horribly quick and dirty, you've been warned!)

	<style>
	.git-graph {
	text-align: left;
	line-height: 1;
	}
	.git-graph-row {
	clear: both;
	text-align: left;
	}
	.git-graph-cell {

	require 'mechanize'
	require 'pry'

	L = 'https://www.facebook.com/v2.6/dialog/oauth?redirect_uri=fb464891386855067%3A%2F%2Fau' \
	'thorize%2F&scope=user_birthday,user_photos,user_education_history,email,user_relatio' \
	'nship_details,user_friends,user_work_history,user_likes&response_type=token%2Csigned' \
	'_request&client_id=464891386855067'.freeze

	USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en-gb; KFTHWI Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML' \
	', like Gecko) Silk/3.16 Safari/535.19'.freeze