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(I work at Stripe, and I'm the author of the tweet cited in the article.) The visual design and structural layout of the documentation is certainly not of Stri
by pc 14y ago
(I work at Stripe, and I'm the author of the tweet cited in the article.)
The visual design and structural layout of the documentation is certainly not of Stripe's creation. That's all Jeremy Ashkenas. He gave us permission to riff on it a few years ago.
I called their docs a clone on Twitter because of the original elements that were copied: the language switcher along the top; sample curl invocations on the right, with sample responses immediately afterwards; etc. Even the tiny details, like the order of the sections and URLs themselves, are shockingly similar: theirs now too live at /docs/api. The strangest detail, in my opinion, is copying the motif of having a blueprint in the background on the homepage.
The end result is that they're pretty much identical.
All of this is fine. This is just a set of arbitrary design decisions, and they're absolutely free to copy them. We assert no ownership. But given how arbitrary the design choices are, the fact that they picked all of the same ones was somewhat surprising to us -- especially since there are many ways our docs could be improved. (We hope to do so soon.)
- wilfra 14y ago"(I work at Stripe, and I'm the author of the tweet cited in the article.)" #humility I would have gone for something like 'sup bitches this is Patrick Collison'. Perhaps thats why I'm not the CEO of Stripe.
- aszserda 14y agoUh no, actually for him to NOT write what he did would make him a dick. So what he wrote is really the only thing he could have said without coming across and conceited and arrogant.
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- detst 14y agoYou registered an account to make this statement? Writing "I'm one of Stripe's cofounders", as he does in his profile, would not "make him a dick" but it is interesting that he didn't do so here.
- pc 14y agoHonestly, I just don't really like the self-aggrandizing ring of "I'm CEO and cofounder". And I don't think it's particularly relevant most of the time. Yes, I'm a cofounder, but the important part is that I work at Stripe—alongside many others.
- iamdave 14y agoThat's character, right there folks. I'd work for character.
- jdotjdot 14y agoWell said. I would up vote multiple times if I could. The world needs more business leaders with that kind of humble, thoughtful, and down-to-earth attitude and approach. Compare PayPal's typically corporate cult of ego statement: "Under David's leadership..."
- yuhong 14y ago>Compare PayPal's typically corporate cult of ego statement: "Under David's leadership..." To be honest, I do wish such CEOs was more common.
- timdorr 14y ago> The visual design and structural layout of the documentation is certainly not of Stripe's creation. That's all Jeremy Ashkenas. For those curious, he's referring to Docco: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco https://github.com/jashkenas/docco http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ Which is used on the Coffeescript annotated source (amongst other places): http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html