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no ur absolutely horrible

I don't believe they had much say in the change. They are still using the money to do what they said they'd do in their campaign, and many people are setting up their registry as t…

This is a common confusion. The scalenpm crowdfunding was done by the good folks who ran the npm servers for free (mostly nodejitsu) up until the recent switchover to the new infra…

[Stripe Developer] [edited for clarification] I appreciate your interest in the security of Stripe, I think we definitely share the same goals here (making everything as secure as …

(Stripe Developer) - tl;dr -- This claims that Stripe.js runs on the merchant's server environment, causing the server to be subject to PCI DSS. In reality, Stripe.js is served fro…

Agreed, this is what I did say several times in the article, as well as calling much of it non-scientific. Though I did cite 2 scientific studies, and some non-trivial biology, I m…

I don't know if I can properly distinguish the difference between programmers being overpaid and the rest of humanity being underpaid. > Even if it were true, it would be against o…

Many important parts of checkout are open-sourced via our jQuery.payment plugin [1]. It allows you to build your own checkout flow from component parts. As for open sourcing (capit…

This varies from project to project based on needs. The checkout stuff uses sprockets-commonjs, browserify and require.js are used in other projects though. The decision is often m…

Hi, Stripe Developer here. We have a mostly per-project set of code style and tooling guidelines. Most (if not all) of our larger projects are coffeescript and commonjs based. That…

Thomas and Amy speak a lot on never accepting outside investment. So this was probably their own money. ("Bootstrapped," if you want)

bentlegen _is_ an expert in third party javascript, and is correct that both domains need to opt in to a `document.domain` even if they would match with only one changing. This is …

You don't have to go from IE8 to IE9. You can go from IE8 to _any other browser_, and things will look up.

Most people also apply this to object literals. There are no var statements in this situation.

I don't believe that this is just an oversight because "people say you shouldn't use `with`". It simply cannot be optimized in the way that normal property accessors are. If you lo…

Brendan's other words included: > My two cents: be careful not to use ASI as if it gave JS significant newlines. http://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/

Doesn't `with` have significant runtime costs? I didn't think people didn't like that one because it was a 'bad pattern' - I thought it was because it was really slow. EDIT: I went…

I agree consistency is key, but it _was_ consistent before (in it's use of semicolons), and is still (in it's non-use of semicolons).

Fair enough, I'm not claiming that other, much more difficult work didn't go into the feature updates. What was the reasoning for switching to semicolon-less? Why wasn't that a con…

Naturally, the semicolons have always been stripped by the minifier. This makes the code no more 'minimalist.'

Not using semicolons seems fine enough. Going through and removing the semicolons that you already used seems like you're just trying to start drama. Why not use that time to do so…

27 minute FTFY

What about shoes proxy support?