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by patio11 8y ago
It's a process similar to creating a minimum failing case for a regression: take a tightly scoped problem which you'd actually reasonably assign an e.g. intermediate engineer to in your company. File off the serial numbers if you
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by patio11 8y ago
Nothing is too much to much to ask for. We’re aware that the experience of even low levels of disputes is a real sand-in-the-shoe irritant for companies operating entirely aboveboard. We have some ideas for products we could make to ease th
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by patio11 8y ago
Came here to blah blah blah but you beat me to it, thanks! The thing I’d add is to not sell undifferentiated web design but rather find the business problem that web design is one approach to solving (e.g. “Your insurance agency doesn’t get
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by patio11 8y ago
(I work at Stripe.) Sorry that is a frustrating experience. I used to run a B2C site and can relate; I also just ate any dispute. You can automate your response to them via our API (or build internal tooling to create a business process aro
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by patio11 8y ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939
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by patio11 8y ago
I would bet that if one is unsavvy about it one gets paid out about as quickly as they pay vendors (which can be glacial) but that a demand letter to the general counsel with a judgement attached results in a check getting cut no later than
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by patio11 8y ago
I greatly enjoyed this comment and the subthread it inspired. For the peanut gallery: never give anyone in an extension in writing; your ask should be for immediate performance. Why? Well, there are a lot of varieties of "performance&q
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by patio11 8y ago
It seems like HNers are quite willing to believe that Amazon factually has the "We'll pay a non-employee contractor a bonus to move without authorization onto private property to take a package they don't have any documentati
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by patio11 8y ago
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: no. The FMV of FaceBook access is zero, as evidenced by Facebook being routinely available for free. US tax law does not anticipate routinely taxing inchoate transfers of value caused by operating
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by patio11 8y ago
It's tough to win the "I hope you die of cancer" demographic regardless of your actions, so why bother trying? (I have particular interest in this because geeks often cite them as the rationale for why not to price aggressi
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by patio11 8y ago
SaaS companies are very asset-light. Take a look at Salesforce, for example: $17.5 billion dollars of assets on the balance sheet... of which ~$6 billion is cash, $7 billion is goodwill, and only about $141 million is capitalized software.
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by patio11 8y ago
For folks trying to understand this, some context which may be useful: Checking accounts are loss leaders virtually everywhere, the exception being smaller community banks. Their primary revenue stream was, once upon a time, net interest in
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by patio11 8y ago
Because the cost at the margin for pulling credit reports is so low and because banks will periodically pull for customers anyhow, some banks are starting to offer it as a perk to customers. Capital One and American Express both have reason
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by patio11 8y ago
Fun fact: nobody owns a C corporation until the company actually issues shares, which is a good thing to not forget to do. (Occasionally discovered by serious professionals during due diligence, at which point fixing it will cost, at the mi
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by patio11 8y ago
There is nothing wrong with adopting a more conversational style for professional writing, particularly in our industry. If you were in e.g. academia, failure to adopt the consensus tone of journal articles might be career-limiting, but you
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by patio11 8y ago
Sell at ~$18k, pay $3.6k for the call, outperforms hodling in worlds where Bitcoin ends the year below ~$14.4k.
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by patio11 8y ago
Assuming he sold as many Bitcoin as he bought calls for, the options cost more than 20% of Bitcoin's highest price ever. (Black-Scholes is a harsh mistress.) c.f. http://data.ledgerx.com/top100 , Ctrl-F "2017-12-20
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by patio11 8y ago
Stripe's usage of "lurking" is a bit idiosyncratic. (There are a couple of other words like this, distributed in a glossary, the majority of which is less idiosyncratic word usage and more industry- or company-specific jargon
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by patio11 8y ago
(I work at Stripe and, while I don’t do engineering interviews, have strong views on the topic, which may or may not be equivalent to our views. I believe the following is substantially accurate regarding factual representations.) We don’t
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by patio11 8y ago
My nitpick is that "tradable" is non-central to the definition, even though most things that people think of as securities are both tradable in theory and have active markets in them. A security without an active market in it? Sti
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by patio11 8y ago
In US law a) it's duck-typed and b) the relevant question is "Is the pitch to the buyer 'Purchase this thing and, through another person's efforts, you will make money.'? Then it's almost always a security.&quo
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by patio11 8y ago
For what it's worth, I do +/- 50 days a year and haven't noticed anything aside from the migration process being clumsy from a website UX perspective.
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by patio11 8y ago
This article is a prime example of the genre. I strongly believe it is intentionally optimized to take people who would be sympathetic and highlight maximally unsympathetic behavior, for the purpose of generating an argument between folks w
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by patio11 8y ago
Black Companies [0] are a thing, but the discourse of Black Companies mostly serves to protect the mainline of Japanese work culture from the degree of criticism it deserves. [0] A company so abusive of workers that it literally disgusts Ja
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by patio11 8y ago
Bitfinex is the same operation as Tether (commingled ownership and common control). Tether’s product is the eponymous “stablecoin” which promises that each USDT is backed by $1 USD sitting in a bank account and available for withdraw on dem
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by patio11 8y ago
A link direct to the announcement for the curious: https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/319
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by patio11 8y ago
I work at Stripe and happened to see this thread a few minutes after we had started an incident response to resolve the underlying bug. So, long story short: We did a deploy yesterday for a thing which is not obviously related to the Dashbo
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by patio11 8y ago
(We're on it -- more detail after the bug is squashed.)
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by patio11 8y ago
I work on Stripe Atlas. We've gotten in touch with `browsercoin privately, but I wanted to provide some context for other founders here, since many people get this letter every year. I have to make the obligatory "I am not an acco
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by patio11 8y ago
That game got a very interesting review in Japanese which I was compelled to translate: https://gamedaisukinahito.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-954.html https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dja-bHqU0AEYJYe.jpg:large

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