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Stripe is hiring engineers in London(stripe.com)
1 points by collision 14y ago
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by collision 14y ago
The Google Groups webface is also getting good enough that you can keep up with some lists without having to actually subscribe to them via email.
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Stripe is hiring infrastructure engineers
1 points by collision 14y ago
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Rubysh: a better subprocess library for Ruby(github.com)
7 points by collision 14y ago|0 comments
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by collision 14y ago
A number of people at Stripe have families or have other social attachments. We try hard to ensure we're not making lifestyle assumptions when we hold social things. Some of this involves giving good advance notice, other times it's around
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by collision 14y ago
Don't worry -- even if you don't get to play this week, we'll be releasing the levels afterwards so you can run them yourself at home.
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by collision 14y ago
It's definitely not intended that beginners can easily finish, but we hope that everyone can get something out of it. We were actually fairly happy with the conversion rate from start to finish last time. If everybody finishes, it presumabl
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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week'(stripe.com)
154 points by collision 14y ago|17 comments
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by collision 14y ago
"Insure" can also take the latter meaning; I think it's an American/British thing. The New Yorker uses "insure" for both meanings, and it trips me up every time.
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Stripe is hiring Support Engineers
1 points by collision 14y ago
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by collision 14y ago
Significant market share is enough for antitrust to be a concern. You don't need a monopoly, and indeed most companies engaging in anti-competitive behavior don't.
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by collision 14y ago
Stripe returns address verification (AVS) results when you add a card, so you can reject mismatched addresses if you so choose.
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by collision 15y ago
To be clear, we're only against ticketing systems that worsen the experience for the user. Ticketing systems on the backend are great, but having an automated mail system spew at you is a less-than-ideal experience. Email from real humans i
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by collision 15y ago
We're actually using OSQA on the backend which, as you might guess, is open-source. http://osqa.net
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Stripe blog: New webhooks(stripe.com)
91 points by collision 15y ago|11 comments
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by collision 15y ago
Ergotron: http://www.ergotron.com/
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by collision 15y ago
We think a lot about risk, and actually do more verification than traditional merchant-account providers. We just don't make you do busywork like mailing us a voided check or a utility bill. We certainly believe that the approach is sustain
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Static analysis in Ruby(blog.gregbrockman.com)
7 points by collision 15y ago|0 comments
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by collision 15y ago
I tried Clicktale, and it didn't work very well. I gave up half way through. Observer ( http://observer.no.de ) seems like a good new solution.
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by collision 15y ago
Possibly of interest: http://izettle.com/
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by collision 15y ago
It's entirely up to you: there's no mention of Stripe. Most of our customers simply put their domain on the statement.
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by collision 15y ago
> Maybe if you're charging millions of dollars, you should use a regular merchant account. You should probably still use Stripe in this case. (Some people already are.) We scale up pretty well. Everything that you get with a merchant ac
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by collision 15y ago
This is a technicality, but there's a difference between a Ponzi scheme and a pyramid scheme. A Ponzi scheme needs an information asymmetry: investors don't know that their money is being used to pay off previous investors. A pyramid scheme
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by collision 16y ago
Wait, so what's the answer? Is there a mid-runway bench?
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by collision 16y ago
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'"
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by collision 17y ago
$30, actually -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote are all $10 each.
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by collision 17y ago
I love their own use of Garamond in the ad.
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by collision 17y ago
Did Ustream start this campaign? If so, clever.
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by collision 17y ago
As others have said, the major benefit of Dvorak isn't speed -- it's comfort. Your fingers do a lot less work typing Dvorak than QWERTY.
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by collision 17y ago
The point is valid, but what's the takeaway here? You're a two-man shop with a growing product and you desperately need another coder, a designer and a tester. Starting browsing for CEOs probably isn't the best path in this situation.

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