Peter Ajtai pajtai

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

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Available Public Wildcard DNS Domains pointing to localhost (127.0.0.1)

The best way to safely and securely use local domains pointing to 127.0.0.1 is to edit your local settings (/etc/hosts) and add your own settings. Keep in mind if you want to use subdomains, you need to enter all variations.

Example:

# Adding bottom of your current file /etc/hosts
################# MY LOCAL DOMAINS
127.0.0.1 local.com admin.local.com
127.0.0.1 domain1.com

Installing Postgres via Brew

Pre-Reqs

Brew Package Manager

In your command-line run the following commands:

brew doctor
brew update

Run `node` scripts using `nvm` and `crontab` without hardcoding the node version

cronjob.env.sh

#!/bin/bash

# NVM needs the ability to modify your current shell session's env vars,
# which is why it's a sourced function

	/*<?php
	///public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/%s",
	//\u000A\u002F\u002A
	class PhpJava {
	static function main() {
	echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
	"Hello World!");
	}}
	//\u000A\u002F\u002A
	PhpJava::main();

	#!/usr/bin/env bash


	set -eu


	sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install --yes python3.5 python3.5-dev

	#!/bin/bash
	# TODO: skip tiny files (so small they couldn't be photos)
	# TODO: make sure sym links and other file system oddities are handled
	# TODO: look at paralellization for perf boost

	#
	# Constants
	#
	CHAR_COUNT=12
	BLOCK_COUNT=6

	# ignore everything in the root except the "wp-content" directory.
	/*
	!wp-content/

	# ignore everything in the "wp-content" directory, except the themes directories
	wp-content/*
	!wp-content/themes/

	# ignore all mu-plugins, plugins, and themes
	# unless explicitly whitelisted at the end of this file

-<?php
-class Picture {
-	public function init_remove_hwstring() {
-		add_filter('image_downsize', array($this, 'remove_hw_from_downsize'), 10, 3);
-		add_filter('wp_get_attachment_image_attributes', array($this, 'add_srcset_sizes'), 10, 3);
-	}
-	public function add_srcset_sizes($attrs, $attachment, $size) {