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Good thing OpenClaw never needs to be used with a network. Oh, wait…

You are talking about the popular narrative of “left brain” thinking being more logical and “right brain” thinking being more creative. You are correct this is unsupported. The pos…

You should apply anyway and describe your situation! Supporting additional countries is challenging from several angles (payroll, international tax structure, compliance, etc), but…

They can certainly apply as part of your team! Though you should give some thought ahead of time as to what their roles would be at Stripe. We're not currently hiring for the roles…

Yup. This is one of our few remaining unsharded databases (legacy problems...), so we can't easily canary a fraction of serving capacity. However, one clear remediation we can impl…

This is indeed a tricky balance. We want developers to iterate quickly, but we also want to understand the impact of production changes. With a small team and small sets of data, i…

Hi, I work in infrastructure at Stripe and I'm happy to provide more insight. Several threads here have commented on our tooling and processes around index changes. I can give a bi…

Wages for campus jobs for undergraduates at Stanford start at $13.25/hr, and can go quite high. http://financialaid.stanford.edu/aid/employ/wage_scale.html And there are plenty of …

The food benefit isn't taxed. To get the same $3,750 food benefit via salary, your employer would have to pay you $5,000-$6,000 more in salary.

I've found there are two very different worlds of software development. For convenience, I'll label them the "Microsoft" world, and the "Open Source" world. (The labels aren't comp…

Luckily for him, he's working for himself. I can find that out with a couple of Google queries and a LinkedIn profile. But I have no idea whether you work for yourself, for someone…

We have an internal mailing list called "Crazy Ideas". No idea is too crazy. Greg emailed the list two weeks ago with a proposal for the open-source retreat. The reaction internall…

Kafka uses Linux's zero-copy transfer to move bytes between the network and the disk without going through user-space, let alone the JVM. There's still GC from objects allocated by…

Which MUD were you on?

If you're in a US timezone, Stripe is looking for experienced devops candidates. Most employees are in the SF office, but we have a sizable minority of remote employees. Send me an…

Read the article. The Senator defines spying very specifically. So specifically that it's already clear the answer is "yes".

It's not about risk, it's about overcoming obstacles. Dealing with US visas is a pain, but it's nowhere near as painful as everything else you need to do to make a startup succeed.…

Well, yes, I'd wager this is his first (and last) federal offense. He is exactly a rookie.

Inflation means that the value of 100 pesos in the future is less than the value of 100 pesos now. In countries under hyperinflation, supermarkets will raise their prices several t…