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
Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.
Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264
const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');
Hi Nicholas,
I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:
The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't
I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!
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| require 'cgi' | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| desc 'Generate a code review.' | |
| # Uses rake code_review[master,qa] by default | |
| task :code_review, :left_branch, :right_branch do |cmd, args| | |
| left_branch = ( args[:left_branch] || "master" ) | |
| right_branch = ( args[:right_branch] || "qa" ) | |
| gp = GitParser.new(left_branch, right_branch) | |
| gp.fancy_full_diff |
| // | |
| // NSObject+Blocks.h | |
| // Filemator | |
| // | |
| // Created by Zachary Waldowski on 4/12/11. | |
| // Copyright 2011 Dizzy Technology. All rights reserved. | |
| // | |
| @interface NSObject (Blocks) |
| =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') |