swalkinshaw

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

yossorion

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

jasongilman

Atom Clojure Setup

This describes how I setup Atom for an ideal Clojure development workflow. This fixes indentation on newlines, handles parentheses, etc. The keybinding settings for enter (in keymap.cson) are important to get proper newlines with indentation at the right level. There are other helpers in init.coffee and keymap.cson that are useful for cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, and indenting Lisp expressions.

Install Atom

Download Atom

The Atom documentation is excellent. It's highly worth reading the flight manual.

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

dhh

class ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
  def draw(routes_name)
    instance_eval(File.read(Rails.root.join("config/routes/#{routes_name}.rb")))
  end
end

BCX::Application.routes.draw do
  draw :api
  draw :account
  draw :session

troelskn

require 'gollum/frontend/app'
require 'digest/sha1'

class App < Precious::App
  User = Struct.new(:name, :email, :password_hash, :can_write)

  before { authenticate! }
  before /^\/(edit|create|delete|livepreview|revert)/ do authorize_write! ; end

  helpers do

scottwater

# Pass in the name of the site you wich to create a cert for

domain_name =  ARGV[0]

if domain_name == nil
  puts "Y U No give me a domain name?"
else
   system "openssl genrsa -out #{domain_name}.key 1024"
   system "openssl req -new -key #{domain_name}.key -out #{domain_name}.csr -subj '/C=US/ST=NJ/L=Monroe/O=MyCompany/OU=IT/CN=#{domain_name}'"
   system "cp #{domain_name}.key #{domain_name}.key.bak"

ericflo

"""
I've been thinking lately about how perfect Redis would be for storing a
simple social graph. I posited that it would be relatively few lines of code,
and that it'd be clean code too. So here it is: a basic social graph built on Redis.
"""

class FriendGraph(object):
    
    def __init__(self, ring):
        self.ring = ring