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yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active September 4, 2025 01:33
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

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

@ljharb
ljharb / array_iteration_thoughts.md
Last active November 17, 2025 07:16
Array iteration methods summarized

Array Iteration

https://gist.github.com/ljharb/58faf1cfcb4e6808f74aae4ef7944cff

While attempting to explain JavaScript's reduce method on arrays, conceptually, I came up with the following - hopefully it's helpful; happy to tweak it if anyone has suggestions.

Intro

JavaScript Arrays have lots of built in methods on their prototype. Some of them mutate - ie, they change the underlying array in-place. Luckily, most of them do not - they instead return an entirely distinct array. Since arrays are conceptually a contiguous list of items, it helps code clarity and maintainability a lot to be able to operate on them in a "functional" way. (I'll also insist on referring to an array as a "list" - although in some languages, List is a native data type, in JS and this post, I'm referring to the concept. Everywhere I use the word "list" you can assume I'm talking about a JS Array) This means, to perform a single operation on the list as a whole ("atomically"), and to return a new list - thus making it mu

@J2TEAM
J2TEAM / sublime-text-scopes.md
Last active June 25, 2025 08:34 — forked from iambibhas/scopes.txt
Sublime Text 2/3: Snippet scopes

Here is a list of scopes to use in Sublime Text 2/3 snippets -

ActionScript: source.actionscript.2
AppleScript: source.applescript
ASP: source.asp
Batch FIle: source.dosbatch
C#: source.cs
C++: source.c++
Clojure: source.clojure
@JamesMGreene
JamesMGreene / gitflow-breakdown.md
Last active November 18, 2025 12:35
`git flow` vs. `git`: A comparison of using `git flow` commands versus raw `git` commands.

Initialize

gitflow git
git flow init git init
  git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit"
  git checkout -b develop master

Connect to the remote repository

@kjunggithub
kjunggithub / gist:8330157
Last active July 18, 2024 02:34
git hubflow cheaetsheet

Git HubFlow Cheat Sheet

Preparing the repository

Create the repository on GitHub/Bitbucket. Once created, clone the created repository to your local machine using:

git clone git@github.com:username/repository.git

CD into the repository folder and run the init command to enable to hub flow tools:

cd repo_name
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active October 31, 2025 16:45
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@coolaj86
coolaj86 / how-to-publish-to-npm.md
Last active November 9, 2025 00:12
How to publish packages to NPM

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

  • Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
  • Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
  • Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
  • Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
  • Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')