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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

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(08:47 AM nil@caine checkprovider (master)) perl checkprovider -U desktop 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=border%20collie'
                                                      Request Times (ms)
       Timestamp             DNS   Socket  Connect      TLS    Write  1stByte     Read    Close    Total   Bytes Status
2016-06-07 08:48:39 EDT     2.98     0.06     1.39     8.83     0.06    30.36     0.07     0.26    44.10   13804 OK (200)
2016-06-07 08:48:40 EDT     0.74     0.08     0.77     6.31     0.07    29.56     0.09     0.34    38.05   13804 OK (200)
2016-06-07 08:48:41 EDT     0.75     0.07     0.49     6.45     0.06    32.85     0.08     0.27    41.10   13804 OK (200)
2016-06-07 08:48:42 EDT     0.72     0.07     1.51     8.24     0.06    22.71     0.08     0.32    33.81   13804 OK (200)
2016-06-07 08:48:43 EDT     0.81     0.07     0.61     6.22     0.06    28.76     7.72     0.32    44.68   13804 OK (200)
2016-06-07 08:48:44 EDT     0.85     0.07     0.45     6.04     0.06    28.51     0.10     0.33    36.5

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00 

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# Easily extract all compressed file types
extract () {
   if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
       case $1 in
           *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf -- "$1"    ;;
           *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf -- "$1"    ;;
           *.bz2)       bunzip2 -- "$1"     ;;
           *.rar)       unrar x -- "$1"     ;;
           *.gz)        gunzip -- "$1"      ;;
           *.tar)       tar xvf -- "$1"     ;;

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### Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

  * I am nilnilnil on github.
  * I am nilnilnil (https://keybase.io/nilnilnil) on keybase.
  * I have a public key whose fingerprint is 8A87 11CF F0D1 324C 2B98  5006 B946 183D 4E42 295D

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http_request.c b/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
index c8c5d15..a3f1953 100644
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
@@ -3472,7 +3472,7 @@ ngx_http_log_error(ngx_log_t *log, u_char *buf, size_t len)
 
     ctx = log->data;
 
-    p = ngx_snprintf(buf, len, ", client: %V", &ctx->connection->addr_text);
+    p = ngx_snprintf(buf, len, ", client: REDACTED");

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Redirect output to stderr.
exec 1>&2

# list staged go files
lsgo() {
        git ls-files|egrep '.*.go$'
}

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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"

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package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"sync"
)

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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