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At WePay, we've successfully hired from HackBright and are really happy with the decision. People with non-computer science backgrounds are often able to grok business problems fas…

I've been playing with Gobot, really happy with it. Hybrid Group is VERY much behind it, lots of support. For all of you who got drones for Xmas, give it a go with Gobot.

Google's Public Cloud is built on the same 'Planet Scale' infrastructure that their private cloud is set upon. That makes it almost impossible to imagine the scale potential on a g…

The platform creates one on their behalf, it's transparent to them.

As Bill makes clear-WePay Clear isn't about fraud protection-we've always been managing risk. It's offering fraud protection, risk mitigation with a white label payments platform-t…

First remember that WePay is for platform companies-ones that want to allow their users to take funds, not single merchant apps. So crowdfunding sites, marketplaces, and business t…

WePay Connect has all the same fraud features as Clear, but for a lot of brands they want to be the consistent voice across their platform-and rightfully so. WePay Clear allows you…

We're talking about a community where some of the brightest minds already don't come from a traditional background. Several well-known Rubyists have degrees in Theatre and Music. T…

Full free to submit a pull request. The idea is to make sure the tools and practices make it so a developer is happy writing good, performant code with a good user experience. If t…

It's about taking our main tool as developers and making sure it works for us.

Github Issue #2: What do we do after we value something? https://github.com/scottefein/the-happiness-manifesto/issues... Lend your two cents in the comments...

It's a community at the end of the day, and having conflict like that is actually good. We should have people with different use cases and problem sets sitting in the same room sha…

Sure, but if you shut out people you'll never find out if they're valid or not.

Meritocracy is good, but not when it creates a homogenous pool of points of view.

Really good points-Definitely will add some contrasts to help clarify. Feel free to submit a pull request with your ideas!

Chef. Tungsten Replicator-a powerful infrastructure orchestration tool-is all Ruby.

Ruby is a lot faster than it use to be. But it's a matter of Ruby being complimented by other languages for their best attributes.

If you need a lightening fast API, anecdotal evidence suggests you just can't get it down to the speeds you see with Go. Rack/Ruby just isn't going to cut it.