OliverJAsh

See https://medium.com/unsplash/how-we-gradually-migrated-to-typescript-at-unsplash-7a34caa24ef1

yossorion

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

dev_jobs_in_japan.md

Companies

• Github - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo
• Heroku - Infrastructure-as-a-service; recently bought by Salesforce
• Pivotal Labs - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo; nice Mori Tower office
• Google - Consistently ranked best place in Japan to work; nice Mori Tower office
• Amazon - I THINK they now hire some developers
• Microsoft - English-friendly with chances to speak Japanese; apparently have some interesting projects; nice Shinagawa office
• Kaizen Platform - Pretty awesome company developing A/B testint as a service / analytics services; I think most people there speak English; has an office in San Francisco
• [Treasure Data](https://www.treasureda

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)