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Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by kornish »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #59
LukeHoersten wrote: post #10

Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so successful. They truly have a dev culture and that's a lot more than most companies that just say they have a dev culture. At Stripes scale and size that's a big success.

I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.

Stripe's API docs are absolutely gorgeous, also, for what it's worth:

https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges

Re: Stripe: Open Source

#63

Post by son_ngu »

Killswitch wrote: post #47
LukeHoersten wrote: post #10

Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so successful. They truly have a dev culture and that's a lot more than most companies that just say they have a dev culture. At Stripes scale and size that's a big success.

> Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?

That's a loaded question. I don't think op means every company.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by fica »

kornish wrote: post #61
DamnInteresting wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.

Stripe's API docs are absolutely gorgeous, also, for what it's worth: https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges

check out http://gelato.io to get Stripe style docs as a service

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by fica »

dang wrote: post #60
fica wrote: post #36

Mashape is another startup that contributes a lot in the API space with mainstream OSS projects such as: OAuthBible [1], Unirest [2], HTTPsnippet [3], Guardian [4] and KONG [5]. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth [2] http://unirest.io/ [3] https://github.com/Mashape/httpsnippet [4] https://github.com/Mashape/guardian [5] https://github.com/Mashape/kong

You guys appear to have a whole posse of accounts promoting your stuff in dubious ways on HN. I'm not sure exactly where the line is between normal sharing of information and abuse, but wherever it is, you're on the wrong side. HN threads are for conversations, not commercials. There's nothing wrong with linking to one's own work when it comes up naturally in a genuine conversation. Abusing conversation for promotion…

Not sure what you mean with another username and relations you're coming up with. my comments gets real upvotes from the community. which means that what I comment, is what the community likes. Otherwise they won't. Also is mostly about open source, free software which is not commercial at all.

Next time think twice before flagging or you're doing your job wrong, Dang. Thx.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by dang »

fica wrote: post #65
dang wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You guys appear to have a whole posse of accounts promoting your stuff in dubious ways on HN. I'm not sure exactly where the line is between normal sharing of information and abuse, but wherever it is, you're on the wrong side. HN threads are for conversations, not commercials. There's nothing wrong with linking to one's own work when it comes up naturally in a genuine conversation. Abusing conversation for promotion…

Not sure what you mean with another username and relations you're coming up with. my comments gets real upvotes from the community. which means that what I comment, is what the community likes. Otherwise they won't. Also is mostly about open source, free software which is not commercial at all. Next time think twice before flagging or you're doing your job wrong, Dang. Thx.

HN users flagged your comment. Open-source or not is a red herring—the issue is illegitimate promotional tactics. (I've replaced "commercial" with "promotional" above to make this clearer.)

I'm surprised that you're not sure what I mean. From examples that users complaining about comment spam have emailed us, as well as the data I'm looking at, there is a longstanding pattern of abusing HN threads, including in outright deceptive ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324.

We have a contract with HN users: they're not allowed to accuse each other of astroturfing, and we promise to crack down on actual astroturfing when we see evidence of it. I'm seeing evidence.

I feel bad for taking this thread further off-topic, but it's important for users to see us upholding our end of that bargain. If you want to discuss this further, please email hn@ycombinator.com.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by aaggarwal »

benjamindc wrote: post #42
scotchio wrote: post #37

Love the logo! Did something similar here [1] for our blog's creative/digital arm [2] with actually a somewhat similar approach. Probably a few months ago. Their's is a little more elegant though :) I just want to make a quick comment: Everything the Stripe's front-end guys touch is pure and magical perfection. They definitely have a killer front-end team - design, UI/UX, and more. [1] http://codepen.io/ncerminara/pe…

Glad you noticed the easter-egg on the logo :p

Hi, is there any library to get a similar SVG animation on any text? Possibly, input the text and get animated SVG. Though, I think your not using any external library.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by voltagex_ »

krithix wrote: post #2

(I work at Stripe.) We're also accepting applications for our second Open-Source Retreat: https://stripe.com/blog/open-source-retreat-2016

I hope one day one of my pet projects is big enough for a program like this.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by reitanqild »

kornish wrote: post #61
DamnInteresting wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.

Stripe's API docs are absolutely gorgeous, also, for what it's worth: https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges

Anybody wants to explain why fica was downvoted? My best guess is undisclosed relationship to gelato.

Edit: my bad, found dangs comment.

Re: Stripe: Open Source

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Post by sandGorgon »

ahachete wrote: post #55
sandGorgon wrote: post #32

why did you guys invent mosql [1] ? you are clearly loving postgres and cannot get rid of it... but potentially with jsonb in 9.5 [2] you can get rid of mongodb. With the kind of resources you have, you could fix the few things about postgres that you dont like. [1] https://github.com/stripe/mosql/blob/master/README.md [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9....

Or use ToroDB ( http://www.torodb.com ) that speaks the MongoDB protocol but stores the data relationally, in PostgreSQL. Directly. No ETL, no mosql required :) (ToroDB developer here)

hey - this looks interesting. Quick question: why did you build it in Java rather than as a Postgresql extension - like mongres [1] or mogloid [2] ?

[1] https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres

[2] https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike

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