Joshua Levy jlevy

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

Sessions

Code	Title	Duration	Link
Keynote	Andy Jassy Keynote Announcement Recap	0:01	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCxKAM2GtQ
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Andy Jassy	2:22	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrbUyw9uSg
Keynote	AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote: Werner Vogels	2:16	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDScBNahsL4
Keynote	[Tuesday Night Live with Jame

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

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

A soft-fullscreen prompt for iOS7+

Background

iOS 7.0 and iOS 8 (Beta) do not have support for minimal-ui viewport keyword, nor do they response to window.slideTo(0,1) or support Fullscreen API, which means there is no easy way to tell Mobile Safari to hide address bar/menu without user interaction.

This is a problem for Web App that mimics Native App design, where html/body are commonly set to height: 100%, so browser viewport = available screen estate. There are currently no solution besides adding apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta and ask users to manually Save to Homescreen.

Frustrated by this limit, we present a soft-fullscreen prompt design, which, coupled with proper CSS hack, can achieve soft-fullscreen with relatively small effort from users.

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

	/**
	* Returns a hash code for a string.
	* (Compatible to Java's String.hashCode())
	*
	* The hash code for a string object is computed as
	* s[0]31^(n-1) + s[1]31^(n-2) + ... + s[n-1]
	* using number arithmetic, where s[i] is the i th character
	* of the given string, n is the length of the string,
	* and ^ indicates exponentiation.
	* (The hash value of the empty string is zero.)

	import requests
	import base64
	from tqdm import tqdm


	master_json_url = 'https://178skyfiregce-a.akamaihd.net/exp=1474107106~acl=%2F142089577%2F%2A~hmac=0d9becc441fc5385462d53bf59cf019c0184690862f49b414e9a2f1c5bafbe0d/142089577/video/426274424,426274425,426274423,426274422/master.json?base64_init=1'
	base_url = master_json_url[:master_json_url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]

	resp = requests.get(master_json_url)
	content = resp.json()

	// Extend a winston by making it expand errors when passed in as the
	// second argument (the first argument is the log level).
	function expandErrors(logger) {
	var oldLogFunc = logger.log;
	logger.log = function() {
	var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0);
	if (args.length >= 2 && args[1] instanceof Error) {
	args[1] = args[1].stack;
	}
	return oldLogFunc.apply(this, args);