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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

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

Inspired by https://gist.github.com/joshbirk/8363143

Usage

Please use Python3

Create connected-app and obtain consumer_key and consumer_secret
Install simple-salesforce package

Example for Cooperative Brushing and Tooltips in D3.

The tooltip helper function for dynamic tooltips.

	// ----
	// Sass (v3.3.14)
	// Compass (v1.0.1)
	// ----

	$map:();
	$font-size:(s: 12px, m: 14px);
	$values: (text-s 12px), (text-m 14px), (text-l 16px);

	// generate classes from $values

	<html>
	<head>
	<style type="text/css">
	table table {
	width: 600px !important;
	}
	table div + div { /* main content */
	width: 65%;
	float: left;
	}

	var page = require('webpage').create(),
	fs = require('fs');

	page.viewportSize = { width: 600, height: 600 };
	page.paperSize = { format: 'Letter', orientation: 'portrait', margin: '1cm' };

	page.content = fs.read('/dev/stdin');

	window.setTimeout(function() {
	page.render('/dev/stdout', { format: 'pdf' });

	set :application, "My Static Content"
	set :servername, 'test.example.com'

	# no git? simply deploy a directory
	set :scm, :none
	set :repository, "." # the directory to deploy

	# using git? deploy from local git repository
	# set :scm, :git
	# set :repository, 'file//.' # path to local git repository


	/********************
	* TOOLTIP CSS
	*/

	.nvtooltip {
	position: absolute;
	background-color: rgba(255,255,255,1);
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #ddd;