Scott Stanfield scottstanfield

App Install Plan

Critical

iTerm2
- https://iterm2.com/
Command Line Tools
- xcode-select –install

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

Setting up a Keynote document for grid layout design

I like (love ?) Keynote because it

is a simple to use presentation software,
is vector based (when zooming it just looks gorgeous)
exports to powerpoint

If I could remove that last argument, I would, but the fact is that, as a consultant, the final document is almost always expected to be a powerpoint document. Don't ask me why, it is just so. I am fighting against it but I did not win the battle so far ...

Fitting 2016 FEC campaign donor data into your humble spreadsheet

The 2016 U.S. Election is so hot and rich that even with a month to go, the Federal Election Commission has recorded 12.6 million individual campaign donations.

For comparison's sake, the 2014 cycle had just 2.1 million donors. And the last presidential cycle, 2012, had 3.3 million donors.

The bottom line is that we can't import all the data directly into Excel (nevermind Google Sheets). But we can at least import the subset of data that we need (under a million rows) without having to crack out a database.

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	# License: DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO with this code.
	#
	# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
	# IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
	# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
	#
	from io import StringIO

	from contextlib import contextmanager

	#!/bin/sh -e

	OS=${OS:-`uname`}

	if [ "$OS" = 'Darwin' ]; then
	get_touch_time() {
	date -r ${unixtime} +'%Y%m%d%H%M.%S'
	}
	else
	# default Linux

	#/bin/sh
	#
	# Don't change the following lines unless you know what you are doing
	# They execute the config options starting with 'do_' below
	grep -E -v -e '^\s#' -e '^\s$' <<END \| \
	sed -e 's/$//' -e 's/^\s*/\/usr\/bin\/raspi-config nonint /' \| bash -x -
	#
	############# INSTRUCTIONS ###########
	#
	# Change following options starting with 'do_' to suit your configuration

	parallel_fread <- function(path, mc.cores = parallel::detectCores(), header = TRUE, ...) {
	stopifnot(file.exists(path))

	dots <- list(...)
	fread_args <- dots[intersect(names(formals(fread)), names(dots))]

	if (any(c("skip", "nrows") %in% fread_args)) {
	stop(paste(intersect(c("skip", "nrows"), fread_args), collapse = " & "), " cannot be provided")
	}

	# Sensible, short .zshrc
	# Gist page: git.io/vSBRk
	# Raw file: curl -L git.io/sensible-zshrc

	# GNU and BSD (macOS) ls flags aren't compatible
	ls --version &>/dev/null
	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
	lsflags="--color --group-directories-first -F"
	else
	lsflags="-GF"

	# Makefile for transpiling with Babel in a Node app, or in a client- or
	# server-side shared library.

	.PHONY: all clean

	# Install `babel-cli` in a project to get the transpiler.
	babel := node_modules/.bin/babel

	# Identify modules to be transpiled by recursively searching the `src/`
	# directory.