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
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Most of you guys read Josh' proposals to make components more reusable, I think. Now, reading through this proposals definitely gives a feeling that this is the right way. Anyways, If you haven't read it yet, you should.
So Josh shows us, how angular apps can be structured in a better and more reusable way. Reusability is a very important thing when it comes to software development. Actually the whole angularjs library follows a philosophy of reusability. Which is why you able to make things like:
| (function(global) { | |
| var myself = global.people.findById(global.github.me.dna()); // lol | |
| myself.roll = myself.roll || function(weed, paper) { | |
| weed = this.getGrinder().grind(weed); | |
| return _.extend(weed, paper); | |
| }; | |
| var session = new Session({ | |
| location : Location.SAME_OLD_SPOT, | |
| people : _.union([myself], myself.getFriends().filter(Person.POT_HEAD)) |