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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

Lodash has a sweet feature called a mixin that lets you alias function names. Below here I alias names that we're used to using in SQL to (roughly) equivalent functions in lodash.

_.mixin({
  select: _.map,
  from: _.chain,
  where: _.filter,
  groupBy: _.sortByOrder,
})

Improved .visually-hidden

Theorically bulletproof CSS class for visually hide anything and keep it accessible to ATs.

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Thirty Percent Feedback

By Jason Freedman in Startups and Uncategorized on February, 26, 2014 Source: https://42floors.com/blog/startups/thirty-percent-feedback (Copied in case this resource disappears)

I remember showing school essays to my dad growing up. He’s a really good writer and so getting his feedback before I turned a paper in usually helped me make some improvements. But whenever I’d watch him reading over the pages, I would secretly be hoping he’d read it and say that everything is perfect. I obviously thought it was already perfect, otherwise I wouldn’t have shown it to him.

Storing Images and Demos in your Repo

In this quick walkthough you'll learn how to create a separate branch in your repo to house your screenshots and demo gifs for use in your master's readme.

How to

1. Clone a fresh copy of your repo

In order to prevent any loss of work it is best to clone the repo in a separate location to complete this task.

2. Create a new branch

Create a new branch in your repo by using git checkout --orphan assets

	{
	"*/__tests__/.js": {
	"alternate": "{}.js",
	"type": "test"
	},
	"*.js": {
	"alternate": "{dirname}/__tests__/{basename}.js",
	"type": "source"
	}
	}

	import test from 'ava';
	import Rx from 'rxjs/Rx';
	import {createStore} from 'redux';

	test('should be observable', t => {

	const reducer = (state, action) => {
	if (action.type === 'increment') {
	return {...state, counter: state.counter + 1}
	}

	const t = require("tcomb");
	// imstruct is a tcomb type builder that internally builds an
	// Immutable.Record object, but applies tcomb's type system to it
	const imstruct = require("../util/imstruct");

	const Person = imstruct({
	name: t.String,
	age: t.Number
	});