gdb

21 ms·

151.
by gdb 12y ago
(I work at Stripe.) Kernel is one of the companies putting this together. They temporarily put up the redirect (movie doesn't go live until 10a PT). About to put up a more informative redirect page.
152.
Libscore(stripe.com)
14 points by gdb 12y ago|3 comments
153.
by gdb 12y ago
Yep. Email transparency gracefully degrades into just a plain old mailing list.
154.
by gdb 12y ago
Don't read it then! But it can still be useful to have a lot of auto-archived email in your inbox -- for example, searching for a name or topic will often pull up relevant threads you otherwise wouldn't have been discovered.
155.
by gdb 12y ago
It's kinda (and in some cases maybe even irresponsible) unfair to drop major things on people without providing more context. The point of email transparency isn't to make everything transparent; it's to increase efficiency.
156.
by gdb 12y ago
Email transparency is one tool for spreading information within an organization. It excels at some use-cases (namely, freeing email that would normally be locked up in someone's inbox). However, it's poor at other cases: for examp
157.
by gdb 12y ago
We do use Slack. It's great for real-time communication, and has made us way happier than any other chat system we've tried. (In fact, a year prior we'd tried out lots of chat systems, each time feeling like the switching cos
158.
by gdb 12y ago
The main point of the post is that if there's a configuration you expect to work, you need to test it, independent of whether or not it's supported by the author. I can think of a dozen other distributed system failures I've
159.
Game day exercises at Stripe(stripe.com)
92 points by gdb 12y ago|32 comments
160.
by gdb 12y ago
Maybe that's secretly the point of the post — the CTO title itself isn't going to magically provide meaning for you :).
161.
by gdb 12y ago
Yep, we're hiring engineers in SF and US timezones: ( https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/engineer/ ), and hiring for a variety of positions globally ( https://stripe.com/jobs/ ).
162.
by gdb 12y ago
For sure, with any change comes risk, but at a rapidly growing company there's even bigger risk with lack of change. ( http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-old-guard/ has some good perspective on this, I thin
163.
by gdb 12y ago
That's what I said in the post :)! But we felt it was important and he was up for it. More seriously, hiring an executive is very different from any other hire. You're fundamentally hiring someone who is going to be affecting the
164.
by gdb 12y ago
Ah interesting. I'm running on Cloudflare's free SSL tier (have been very curious to see how well it performs). What browser are you on?
165.
by gdb 12y ago
In my mind, titles are indeed the wrong place to start. Early on, we were pretty structureless — it was the best way to get things done. But as we grew, we found that lack of structure started to get in the way — if everyone feels equally r
166.
by gdb 12y ago
Hm, what error were you seeing? Assuming it was a 404: the setup is a bit weird since I changed the slug early on and added a Cloudflare-level rewrite to keep the old one working, but the Cloudflare rule was doing an exact string match. So
167.
by gdb 12y ago
I think a lot of these cultural questions require you to say over and over what's important, and demonstrate that you really mean it. I always ask people what they think, and when I sense hesitance I work to draw them out. In the end a
168.
by gdb 12y ago
Yeah, I think one of the biggest shocks about the role is how little documentation there is on being a CTO. (Contrast that with the CEO role, where you can read Andy Grove, Ben Horowitz, Fred Wilson, etc..) I'd love to see other people
169.
by gdb 12y ago
Yep, this is right.
170.
by gdb 12y ago
(I work at Stripe.) > It's an interesting idea but I can't see how it'd work cleanly in practise. The consumer won't even know what version they're using themselves, which makes documentation and API client updat
171.
by gdb 12y ago
Cool. Looks like it has some similar features/workflows to Pagerbot, and some different.
172.
by gdb 12y ago
We don't currently use Hubot internally. We've certainly thought about it, but we've also had chat bots at Stripe for a number of years (and writing a chat bot isn't actually that difficult), and consequently it's n
173.
by gdb 12y ago
Well if you're not particularly CPU- or memory-bound, you probably won't want to spend your time optimizing them. As well, there are plenty of softer aspects you might care to optimize: productivity, maintainability, library suppo
174.
by gdb 12y ago
That was porting from Ruby. Go is particularly good for any application where you want to get better utilization out of your CPU, or want to cut down on memory usage. Most of the code we've been porting has been infrastructure: parsers
175.
Official Go support(stripe.com)
189 points by gdb 12y ago|110 comments
176.
Show HN: Stellar-backed Twitter upvote bot(gdb.svbtle.com)
50 points by gdb 12y ago|14 comments
177.
Setting up federated addresses with Stellar(gdb.svbtle.com)
2 points by gdb 12y ago|2 comments
178.
by gdb 12y ago
> Are you accessing these to do some kind of bot prevention Yep, exactly.
179.
by gdb 12y ago
I can't speak to why patio11 dislikes BTC, but I can speak to what Stellar's trying to do. If it's helpful, there's some decent documentation on what Stellar's trying to do (at a social level) here: https:/&#x
180.
by gdb 12y ago
> Stellar transactions do not work in the absence of a trust path; Bitcoin does This isn't quite accurate: a lot of Stellar's mechanisms are set up to allow transactions to flow despite the lack of a trust path. For example,

More ›