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A dead simple folder you can drag and drop files into and forget about. As simple as dropbox but something you can trust.

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

	/*! Top K elements of an unordered list

	There are 3 ways to get the top k elements from an unsorted list.

	1. Build a heap with all the elements and pop k times
	2. Sort the whole list and return a slice from the end
	3. Quick select k elements

	Naively, I would expect 1 to be slowest, 2 to be faster and 3 the fastest.

	//! Leveshtein distance
	//!
	//! Leveshtein distance considers the 3 possibilities strings can differ -
	//! addition, subtraction and deletion at each state of iteration and tries all
	//! the cases to find the minimum distance.

	use std::{collections::HashMap, convert::TryInto};

	pub fn levenshtein(a: &str, b: &str) -> i32 {
	cached(a, b, &mut HashMap::new())

	Version 1.7.1 x86_64
	Compiled with:
	- Cabal-2.2.0.1
	- Glob-0.9.2
	- HUnit-1.6.0.0
	- QuickCheck-2.11.3
	- StateVar-1.1.1.0
	- aeson-1.2.4.0
	- aeson-compat-0.3.7.1
	- annotated-wl-pprint-0.7.0

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#ifdef _MSC_VER
	#include <intrin.h> /* for rdtscp and clflush */
	#pragma optimize("gt",on)
	#else
	#include <x86intrin.h> /* for rdtscp and clflush */
	#endif

	# /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-randomize-mac-address.conf

	# REQUIRES NETWORK MANAGER >= 1.4.1 (Ubuntu Zesty and above)

	# Thanks to https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoofing-in-networkmanager-1-4-0/

	# This randomize your MAC address for new connections

	# Be sure to change your existing (saved) connections in
	# /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

	adler32 :: String -> Int
	adler32 = helper 1 0
	where
	helper a b (x:xs) = helper a' b' xs
	where a' = (a + (ord x .&. 0xff)) `mod` base
	b' = (a' + b) `mod` base
	base = 65521

	helper a b _ = (b `shiftL` 16) .\|. a