isaacsanders

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Merge sort a singly linked linear list."""
import random
from itertools import product

# Linked list is either empty or a value and a link to the next list
empty = None # empty list

class LL(object):
    __slots__ = "value", "next"

ubershmekel

"""
1-script install xfce4 hotkeys for chromebook ubuntu

You might need to `killall xfconfd` or restart xfce for these to take effect.
"""

import os
import datetime

addage = [

kareman

//
//  Queue.swift
//  NTBSwift
//
//  Created by Kåre Morstøl on 11/07/14.
//
//  Using the "Two-Lock Concurrent Queue Algorithm" from http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/synchronization/pseudocode/queues.html#tlq, without the locks.


// should be an inner class of Queue, but inner classes and generics crash the compiler, SourceKit (repeatedly) and occasionally XCode. 

roop

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Makefile generator for quick compilation of Swift projects
# By: Roopesh Chander
# Thanks: Andy Matuschak
# Works only for swift-only projects.
# Usage: 
#   > perl makemake.pl
#   > make

blemoine

Math.tanh = Math.tanh || function(x) {
    if(x === Infinity) {
        return 1;
    } else if(x === -Infinity) {
        return -1;
    } else {
        return (Math.exp(x) - Math.exp(-x)) / (Math.exp(x) + Math.exp(-x));
    }
};

austinzheng

//
//  ExampleCode.swift
//

import UIKit

// MARK: - Protocol

protocol SearchQueryProviderProtocol : class {    // 'class' means only class types can implement it
  func searchQueryData() -> String

bearfrieze

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

by Bjørn Friese

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.

3lvis

print(String(data: try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: dict, options: .prettyPrinted), encoding: .utf8)!)

Arachnid

/**
 * Base contract that all upgradeable contracts should use.
 * 
 * Contracts implementing this interface are all called using delegatecall from
 * a dispatcher. As a result, the _sizes and _dest variables are shared with the
 * dispatcher contract, which allows the called contract to update these at will.
 * 
 * _sizes is a map of function signatures to return value sizes. Due to EVM
 * limitations, these need to be populated by the target contract, so the
 * dispatcher knows how many bytes of data to return from called functions.