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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

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

	// You can place it in the root build.gradle

	allprojects {
	tasks.withType(JavaForkOptions) {
	// Forked processes like GradleWorkerMain for tests won't steal focus!
	jvmArgs '-Djava.awt.headless=true'
	}
	}

	import android.util.Log;
	import com.squareup.leakcanary.AnalysisResult;
	import com.squareup.leakcanary.DisplayLeakService;
	import com.squareup.leakcanary.HeapDump;
	import retrofit.RestAdapter;
	import retrofit.RetrofitError;
	import retrofit.http.Multipart;
	import retrofit.http.POST;
	import retrofit.http.Part;
	import retrofit.mime.TypedFile;

	<!-- You can change the parent around to whatever you normally use -->
	<style name="DebugColors" parent="Theme.AppCompat">

	<!-- System colors -->
	<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/__debugWindowBackground</item>

	<item name="android:colorPressedHighlight">#FF4400</item>
	<item name="android:colorLongPressedHighlight">#FF0044</item>
	<item name="android:colorFocusedHighlight">#44FF00</item>
	<item name="android:colorActivatedHighlight">#00FF44</item>

	package your_package;

	import android.animation.AnimatorSet;
	import android.animation.ObjectAnimator;
	import android.app.Activity;
	import android.content.Context;
	import android.graphics.Bitmap;
	import android.graphics.Canvas;
	import android.graphics.Color;
	import android.graphics.Paint;

	def toCamelCase(String string) {
	String result = ""
	string.findAll("[^\\W]+") { String word ->
	result += word.capitalize()
	}
	return result
	}

	afterEvaluate { project ->
	Configuration runtimeConfiguration = project.configurations.getByName('compile')