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58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

Reference

You need nginx to answer on port 80 on all the domains you want a certificate for. Then you need to serve the challenge used by letsencrypt on /.well-known/acme-challenge. Then we invoke the letsencrypt command, telling the tool to write the challenge files in the directory we used as a root in the nginx configuration.

I redirect all HTTP requests on HTTPS, so my nginx config looks like :

server {

	<?php

	use PhpCsFixer\Config;
	use PhpCsFixer\Finder;

	$rules = [
	'array_indentation' => true,
	'array_syntax' => ['syntax' => 'short'],
	'binary_operator_spaces' => [
	'default' => 'single_space',

	<?php

	// Usage:

	// Before
	@if ($errors->has('email'))
	<span>{{ $errors->first('email') }}</span>
	@endif

	// After:

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e

	cf_ips() {
	echo "# https://www.cloudflare.com/ips"

	for type in v4 v6; do
	echo "# IP$type"
	curl -sL "https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-$type/" \| sed "s\|^\|allow \|g" \| sed "s\|\$\|;\|g"

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<opml version="1.0">
	<head>
	<title>Subscriptions - [email protected]</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<outline text="PHP" title="PHP">
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	<outline htmlUrl="http://mattallan.org" title="mattallan.org" xmlUrl="http://mattallan.org/feed.xml" type="rss" text="mattallan.org"/>
	<outline title="asked.io" xmlUrl="https://asked.io/rss" type="rss" text="asked.io"/>

	@setup
	require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
	(new \Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__, '.env'))->load();

	$appName = "my-app.com";
	$repository = "spatie/{$appName}";
	$baseDir = "/home/forge/{$appName}";
	$releasesDir = "{$baseDir}/releases";
	$currentDir = "{$baseDir}/current";
	$newReleaseName = date('Ymd-His');

Irfaq Syed irazasyed

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

Reference

ToC

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	#!/bin/sh

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