2019-04-12 – Mostly Software

Read a bit about GraphQL again.
A curried function takes multiple arguments and processes/returns one at a time, sequentially.
Pretty awesome (but decently long) walkthrough of what a db is dong under the hood: https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/.
Amazon obviously listens to everything Alexa hears (anonymously). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio.
Agile Lite. A more flexible, but still structure approach to sprinting: https://github.com/davebs/AgileLite.
Fascinating statistical snapshot of the whole software community: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019.
Tested out a new stylesheet: https://github.com/kognise/water.css. Was pretty cool, but I kept my old CSS. This (and other just-add-css options) would be nice for future changes, to mix it up for the users.
Investments.

Nowadays, it’s not just a seed and venture round then an IPO 6 years later. There are many growth rounds, and companies can stay private for longer than a decade, continuing to increase value. Companies stay private longer because it makes the investors more money.
Founders and VCs have preferred stock. They have RSAs instead of ISOs. They can create liquidity events whenever they want with another growth round. They incur a lot less risk, while owning a substantially larger share of equity. Employees are just kinda along for the ride (which is not crazy, since employment is opt-in).
The liquidity goalposts have moved in the founder/VC favor, but the vesting goalposts for employees have not. Many believe that there should no longer be a vesting cliff because its original timeline was basically to finish at the IPO. Now, that’s no longer the case.
If a company does offer liquidity events for employees regularly, these arguments go away.
Dilution is real.
https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-a-good-deal-has-gone-bad

Ran apt install python3-apt because it was missing the apt_pkg. Strange.
Tried pip installing some stuff. ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip
Cat /usr/bin/docker-compose. No, docker-compose shouldn’t be a python entry script.
Ahhhh. docker-compose is installed from git, not apt. The package on apt is a python package. https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/. Reinstalled normally.

Picked up, trimmed, and brined 2 brisket packers and 2 pork butts for Sunday’s GoT party.
sudo apt autoremove killed a bunch of stuff again. I’m not going to run it anymore.

Some important packages: sudo apt install ubuntu-software update-manager ubuntu-desktop gdm3 gnome-control-center
Ugh aaaand it removed the display manager. Unbelievable.
Stuck in a login loop. ctrl-alt-f3 to enter terminal.
First, ubuntu is the dist based on debian. It’s the OS.
On top of ubuntu, there are desktop environments. Unity has been the primary for a long time, but now the default is Gnome for 18. Another option is Xfce (Xubuntu).
In addition, there are display managers (login managers). gdm is the default gnome one, and lightdm is a common alternative.
I had to reset everything back to gnome manually because autoremove removed it. Ridiculous.
`wmctrl -m` shows the desktop manager (window manager). Mine is back to gnome now.
`cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager` shows the login manager. Mine is back to gdm3 now.

Started using tabs instead of split windows. Just ctrl-t (like chrome) then a filename to open a new one. ctrl-w to close. Then and left or right arrows to move between them.

@ at the beginning of a command in a makefile makes it not echo the command itself. Unlike bash, it does print by default.