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
| var parser = document.createElement('a'); | |
| parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash"; | |
| parser.protocol; // => "http:" | |
| parser.hostname; // => "example.com" | |
| parser.port; // => "3000" | |
| parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/" | |
| parser.search; // => "?search=test" | |
| parser.hash; // => "#hash" | |
| parser.host; // => "example.com:3000" |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "encoding/json" | |
| "fmt" | |
| "log" | |
| "net/http" | |
| "sync" | |
| ) |
| L1 cache reference 0.5 ns | |
| Branch mispredict 5 ns | |
| L2 cache reference 7 ns | |
| Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns | |
| Main memory reference 100 ns | |
| Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns | |
| Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network 20,000 ns | |
| Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns | |
| Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns | |
| Disk seek 10,000,000 ns |
