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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

An Aesthetic Comparison of Human-Readable
Hashing Functions

The following compares the output of several creative hash functions designed for human readability.

sha1's are merely used as arbitrary, longer, distributed input values.

zacharyvoase/humanhash

input	1 word output	2 word output	3 word output

To get setup with Auth0 and Kong.

Kong is pretty cool. Auth0 is pretty cool. They should work together. This guide details the fastest way to get your APIs protected using JWT tokens issued by Auth0.

Pre-requisites:

Create a Auth0 account. Account name is referred to "COMPANYNAME" for the sake of the guide.
Setup a Kong instance on your machine. This guide assumes a brand new blank instance.
Install httpie - a http command line utility built for humans (unlike curl).

Enabling Pulse Audio Equaliser Arch Linux

Install the pulseaudio package.
```
 $ pacman -S pulseaudio
```

Install control module and equlizer

 $ pacman -S pulseaudio-equalizer pavucontrol

Install gst-plugins-good if your intended program has a legacy GStreamer implementation.

Rust + WebAssembly Guide, on Arch Linux

Motivation

It's just too complex to make Rust+WASM work on macOS, but all the other guides online target macOS. This guide targets only Arch Linux. If your favorate distro is great, you should be able to do the same thing.

Setup

Install rustup and emscripten with the distro's native package manager.

Z-Stick Serial API

The Z-Stick does bi-directional communication over a UART. The connection speed is 115200, '8N1'. There are "requests" and "responses". The client software can make requests to the Z-Stick, and it will send responses. But it seems the Z-Stick can make requests of the client software too. I have yet to figure out the requests the Z-Stick sends to the client software.

Packets

Can't connect to PostgreSQL. SSL error with Nodejs/Knexjs (Digital ocean)

Issues:

Case 1

{
  client: 'pg',
  connection: {
    host: process.env.DB_HOST,
    port: process.env.DB_PORT,

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Shell scripts for get image manifest from v2 registry
	#
	# Tested on Debian 8, curl 7.38.0, jq-1.5
	#

	set -e -u

	# Default tag is latest

	// @flow

	export const serialResolve = (functionsReturningPromises: Array<() => Promise<any>>, parallelTasks: number) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
	let tasksStarted = 0;
	// Create empty results array
	const results = Array.from(functionsReturningPromises, () => null);
	const totalFunctions = functionsReturningPromises.length;

	// When a promise completes, set the correct results index and start any additional tasks
	let completedPromises = 0;

	I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction
	ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to
	make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it
	because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how
	nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand
	adventure.

	Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy
	into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of
	mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much