Shubham Kamthania shubhamkamthania

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

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

	# Ubuntu 18.04 and various Docker images such as openjdk:9-jdk throw exceptions when
	# Java applications use SSL and HTTPS, because Java 9 changed a file format, if you
	# create that file from scratch, like Debian / Ubuntu do.
	#
	# Before applying, run your application with the Java command line parameter
	# java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit ...
	# to verify that this workaround is relevant to your particular issue.
	#
	# The parameter by itself can be used as a workaround, as well.

	package com.example.hello.api

	import akka.NotUsed
	import com.example.hello.api.SlackCustomIntegration.Message
	import com.lightbend.lagom.scaladsl.api.{Descriptor, Service, ServiceCall}
	import com.lightbend.lagom.scaladsl.api.Service._
	import com.lightbend.lagom.scaladsl.api.transport.Method
	import play.api.libs.json._
	import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._

	package akkahttptest

	import akka.actor.ActorSystem
	import akka.http.scaladsl.Http
	import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Route
	import akka.stream.ActorMaterializer
	import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Directives._

	object UploadHandler extends App {

	import scala.util._
	import java.security.SecureRandom
	import java.security.MessageDigest

	/*
	* Generates a Bearer Token with a length of
	* 32 characters (MD5) or 64 characters (SHA-256) according to the
	* specification RFC6750 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750)
	*
	* Uniqueness obtained by hashing system time combined with a