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
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| ### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: | |
| ### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ | |
| ### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil | |
| ### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA | |
| ### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex | |
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This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.
| """ | |
| Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) | |
| BSD License | |
| """ | |
| import numpy as np | |
| # data I/O | |
| data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file | |
| chars = list(set(data)) | |
| data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars) |
| """ | |
| if we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get | |
| 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. | |
| """ | |
| cap = 1000 | |
| total = 0 | |
| for i in range(1,cap): |
| from dateutil.parser import parse | |
| from pytz import utc | |
| datestr = 'Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:49:32 -0400' | |
| dt = parse(datestr) | |
| utc_dt = dt.astimezone(utc) | |
| final = utc_dt.replace(tzinfo=None) |
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$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
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| This file contains code that, when run on Python 2.7.5 or earlier, creates | |
| a string that should not exist: u'\Udeadbeef'. That's a single "character" | |
| that's illegal in Python because it's outside the valid Unicode range. | |
| It then uses it to crash various things in the Python standard library and | |
| corrupt a database. | |
| On Python 3... well, this file is full of syntax errors on Python 3. But | |
| if you were to change the print statements and byte literals and stuff: |