| Elections are coming up in Greece. I wish we could get closer to liquid | |
| democracy. | |
| Democracy in Greece started as direct democracy – where anyone* could vote | |
| directly for any issue put forth. Anyone was also allowed to raise a point | |
| publicly. | |
| With the invention of modern countries in which politics are more large-scale, | |
| direct democracy became infeasible as the population was too large to be able to | |
| practically vote for every issue, so the world invented representative democracy |
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
| ruby '2.7.1' | |
| gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails' | |
| gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7' # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data | |
| # Action Text | |
| gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra' | |
| gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra' | |
| # Drivers |
| apiVersion: v1 | |
| kind: ConfigMap | |
| metadata: | |
| name: example | |
| namespace: default | |
| data: | |
| APPLICATION_HOST: example.com | |
| LANG: en_US.UTF-8 | |
| PIDFILE: /tmp/server.pid | |
| PORT: "3000" |
