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Setting up netboot.xyz with an EdgeRouter

This document covers how to setup netboot.xyz, a service that provides iPXE-based installation and live boot of a bunch of operating systems, on a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter.

Assumptions

I've made a few assumptions throughout this document that will probably be different for your setup:

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

This is a simple little note I wrote down when talking to another company owner on the topic of moving a fully distributed team (with some folks in the same city) to a mostly-distributed team with an HQ office in a single city. It's not necessarily useful as general advice beyond that

why thoughtful physical location matters

I often advise clients that are actively focused on improving their teams to either embrace a fully-distributed team or a fully-colocated one, and to avoid other permutations of organization. Patterns that I see a lot:

small satellite offices off a large HQ
a handful of remote folk off a large HQ
n similarly-sized engineering offices

I was asked to get some feedback on the following definition:

Dear Mr. Debois,

I would like to ask you for some feedback on the following definition drafts for the terms release engineering and DevOps.

Here, at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, we try to find definitions for those terms as part of a seminar in software engineering. Moreover, >in my work, I try to point out the differences between release

Reciprocal Needs in the Employment Relation

We can look at two sides of the management coin: What do the individuals get out of it? And what benefit does the whole system derive from it?

I will disregard any benefits that accrue to managers just by holding the position of managing. Those are just circular logic. Circular logic abounds in discussions of management and hierarchy. For example, consider status reports. It will be said that status reports are necessary so managers know what their employees are working on. It’s

	provision_list:

	############################################
	"staging-apps+search":
	############################################
	env: staging
	count: 1

	roles:
	master: yes # has all the background services (cron)

	# Interpret the Ansible log for humans. In particular, we
	# look for command executions and format their content
	#
	# - name: list files
	# shell: "ls -lrt e"
	#
	# Might produce
	#
	# TASK: [1] ***********************************************************
	# changed: [localhost]

	SUBMODULE=lib/ansible/modules/core
	SUBMODULE_COMMIT=4d9ce9cf2cdee14b1c417e92059d4ef83dbcc457

	for superproject_tag in $(git tag); do
	git ls-tree -r $superproject_tag \| grep $SUBMODULE \| awk '{ print $3 }' \| while read submodule_commit_in_superproject_tag; do
	(cd $SUBMODULE && git rev-list $submodule_commit_in_superproject_tag \| grep $SUBMODULE_COMMIT >/dev/null && echo "Found submodule commit in superproject tag $superproject_tag")
	done
	done

	- name: Launch {{env}}-{{service}} Instance(s)
	hosts: localhost
	gather_facts: false
	connection: local
	vars_files:
	- group_vars/env/{{ environment }}.yml
	- group_vars/service/{{ service }}.yml
	- group_vars/admin.yml

	# Launch instances with the following parameters. Register the output.