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by lbarrow 14y ago
I work for Braintree. We aren't early-stage anymore, but we really mean it when we say no vacation policy. Personally, I'm going to Europe for 3 1/2 weeks in June (in which I will do no work, but I might go to a conference at the end). I al
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The government didn't mismanage its finances, the banks did. The levy would be to cover the banks' debt.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Surprised not to see "Manufacturing Consent" by Chomksy and Herman. There's a huge amount of insight into the psychology of journalism packed into that book.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I think that's fair, and in retrospect we should have started with pointers to strings. If this is the best practice, though, we should change the standard library to reflect that, rather than providing NullStrings.
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Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development(braintreepayments.com)
102 points by lbarrow 14y ago|78 comments
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Can you email me at lionel.barrow@getbraintree.com? I'd like to know where we can improve our docs.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
(I'm a developer at Braintree.) The blog post was discussing the 2008 version of the Braintree APIs. We completely rewrote our core APIs in 2009. Today, I think we provide one of the most elegant payment APIs available. We've also significa
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by lbarrow 14y ago
That doesn't change the fact that if the chatlog is accurate, Verizon's security practices are incredibly bad.
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Good Reads on Software(lionelbarrow.com)
1 points by lbarrow 14y ago|0 comments
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by lbarrow 14y ago
How does this compare with https://github.com/PawelDecowski/jQuery-CreditCardValidator/ ?
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Here's a slighty more descriptive press article: http://betabeat.com/2013/01/venmo-touch-from-braintree-lets-...
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7 Ways to Reduce Chargebacks(braintreepayments.com)
1 points by lbarrow 14y ago|2 comments
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by lbarrow 14y ago
This product reinforces a mindset that I find harmful. Where I work, teams of developers are responsible for products -- we all own the quality and robustness of our product's code. If the application is broken, why would you only email the
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by lbarrow 14y ago
There's no realistic situation in which having another person working in a country decreases its GDP. GDP is simply the sum of all goods and services after net exports and investments. Given that a working person is, by definition, produci
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I don't understand why you think that criminal record checks, mental health checks, etc. would make people who own guns into "career criminals". As brianchu pointed out, the Virginia tech shooter was involuntarily detained because of mental
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by lbarrow 14y ago
This is entirely plausible. Mass shootings aren't carried out by a random sampling of gun owners -- they're carried out by exactly the people who would be prohibited from owning guns if we tightened the laws around gun ownership a bit. The
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I really like Go. My team has been working on a Go application at work for the last two months and I've had a great time of it. That said, like all good languages, it's perfect until you run into the small list of warts that enrage you. In
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by lbarrow 14y ago
OP here. I strongly disagree with the assertion that pair programming isn't helpful in sensitive or mission critical applications. Braintree's core product is a payment processing gateway. If we go down, get hacked, or introduce serious bug
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by lbarrow 14y ago
OP here. I think this is a good point. There's definitely a risk of dogmatism when we start defining ourselves through a certain process. I wanted to use the post to explore how a process like pairing influences company culture. I don't mea
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by lbarrow 14y ago
OP here. I think it's often hard to tell. One way of addressing this problem is to eliminate the friction associated with switching roles. We always pair with two keyboards, two mice, and two monitors plugged into the same machine. There's
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Code quality is the least important reason to pair program(braintreepayments.com)
47 points by lbarrow 14y ago|52 comments
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http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#generics
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by lbarrow 14y ago
Go's approach to exception handling has a greater impact on the way Go programs are written than the lack of generics. That said, I'm fine with the exception handling because it's obviously a conscious decision by the language designers, an
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by lbarrow 14y ago
I work for Braintree -- we've been playing around with Go internally in the last two months, but no production system uses it yet. The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly define
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by lbarrow 14y ago
We've been playing around with Go where I work. The concurrency model is great, and the type/object/interface approach is pretty flexible. The language designers also succeeded in eliminating many of the pain points they felt with C/C++/Jav
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by lbarrow 14y ago
It's not so much that it subsidizes sprawl as much as it subsidizes low-population states. They aren't quite the same thing: Delaware is reasonably densely populated, but it benefits quite a bit from the electoral college.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The game theory is not complicated at all for a first-past-the-post election with two candidates: candidates will cater to the median voter. There's even a theorem proving it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem "Skewing" a
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by lbarrow 14y ago
It's also pretty deceptive, as it gives each path equal visual weight when they aren't all equally likely
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"Why Twilio is like like your worst girlfriend" or something along those lines.
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by lbarrow 14y ago
The gist of the post is that Twilio is losing money, losing talent, and getting desperate. I don't see why the author couldn't have just said that instead of picking a sexist blog post title -- he didn't even use the girlfriend metaphor bey

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