Nick niroyb

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

Hello software developers,

Please check your code to ensure you're not making one of the following mistakes related to cryptography.

I. General Mistakes

Writing your own home-grown cryptography primitives (For example: Mifare Classic)
- Exception: For the sake of learning, but don't deploy it in production.
Using a fast hash function (e.g. MD5, SHA256) for storing passwords. Use bcrypt instead.
Not using a cryptographically secure random number generator

Git Cheat Sheet

Commands

Getting Started

git init

or

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!

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Upcoming Features in C#

Mads Torgersen, MSFT

This document describes the C# language features currently featured in the March CTP. There's also discussion of a few of the VB features in the preview, where those are intended to be eventually implemented in C# as well.

Note that we have more language features planned that are not yet implemented. So look out for more to come in future CTPs and eventually a shipping version of C#.

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Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

Unison for file synchronization
EncFS for folder encryption

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	# Himawari-8 Downloader
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	#
	# This script will scrape the latest image from the Himawari-8 satellite, recombining the tiled image,
	# converting it to a JPG which is saved in My Pictures\Himawari\ and then set as the desktop background.
	#
	# http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm
	#

	# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
	#
	# Current known FCC address ranges:
	# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
	#
	# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
	#
	# In your nginx.conf:

	location / {