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Originally taken from: Braintree Article and expanded on by me.

Safe

Add a new column
Drop a column
Rename a column
Add an index concurrently (Example), Note: it will still take a long time to run the migration, but it won't write-lock the table.
Drop a constraint (for example, non-nullable)
Add a default value to an existing column

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

fling ⌆

The fling pattern is a constraint on the Farcaster protocol which allows you to keep a daily log of your work, while benefitting from all the great social features of Farcaster.

Inspiration

John Carmack's .plan files
OhLife.com (now defunct startup that emailed you 1x a day with "How did your day go?")

	/*!
	* gulp
	* $ npm install gulp-ruby-sass gulp-autoprefixer gulp-cssnano gulp-jshint gulp-concat gulp-uglify gulp-imagemin gulp-notify gulp-rename gulp-livereload gulp-cache del --save-dev
	*/

	// Load plugins
	var gulp = require('gulp'),
	sass = require('gulp-ruby-sass'),
	autoprefixer = require('gulp-autoprefixer'),
	cssnano = require('gulp-cssnano'),

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"
	require "faraday"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"

	# get these from dev.twitter.com

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#
	# Example Ruby CLI script to retrieve worker data from Workday
	# Call on command line with worker id; prints worker name
	# add "request" or "response" after worker id and prints the
	# outgoing xml or received hash and exits.
	#
	# Using Savon version 2 for the SOAP client (2.11.2)
	#
	# Savon defaults to making the message tag the same as the operation name


	import tensorflow as tf
	import numpy as np

	class FloydHubMetricHook(tf.train.SessionRunHook):
	"""An easy way to output your metric_ops to FloydHub's training metric graphs

	This is designed to fit into TensorFlow's EstimatorSpec. Assuming you've
	already defined some metric_ops for monitoring your training/evaluation,
	this helper class will compute those operations then print them out in