Chris Mendez chrisjmendez

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

Stream URL's for Classical KUSC and Classical KDFC

New URL Pattern:

http://[bit rate].[encoder format].[file format].[call letters].live

Old URL Pattern:

scalar-vector-operations

multi-key indexing allows for indexing properties within an array. It makes things fast [ red, blue, green ]

On the way out Is red in the colors array? Is red not in the colors array? Scalar: $ne, $mod, $exists, $type, $lt, $gt, $gte, $ne Vector: $in, $nin, $all, $size

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require "faker"
	require 'nokogiri'
	require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'file_manager')

	class EmailUtil
	include FileManager

	NUM_OF_EMAILS = 5000

	---
	AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
	Description: 'AWS CloudFormation Sample Template VPC_with_PublicIPs_And_DNS: Sample
	template showing how to create a VPC with DNS and Public IPs enabled. You will be
	billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template.'
	Parameters:
	KeyName:
	Description: Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the bastion
	host
	Type: AWS::EC2::KeyPair::KeyName

	namespace :convert do
	# https://superuser.com/a/1145254
	desc %Q{ ›› Convert from WAC to FLAC to 16-bit and 44.1 kHz. }
	task :low_res, [:wav, :flac] do \|task, args\|
	wav = args.wav
	flac = args.flac
	bit_rate = 16
	sample_rate = 44100
	sh %{ ffmpeg -i #{wav} -af aformat=s#{bit_rate}:#{sample_rate} #{flac} }
	end

	const http = require('http'),
	fs = require('fs'),
	path = require('path'),
	contentTypes = require('./utils/content-types'),
	sysInfo = require('./utils/sys-info'),
	env = process.env;

	let server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	let url = req.url;
	if (url == '/') {