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by sheena 13y ago
(I also work on Stripe's API and dashboard.) I actually find it more interesting that quite a few of the obviously copied bits aren't even really worthy of copying if you're already going through the effort of building an ent
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by sheena 14y ago
Here's the full list of cards we let you use for testing, including some that trigger specific responses: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
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by sheena 14y ago
Thanks for the catch. Fixed now!
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by sheena 14y ago
I'm a woman and a developer at Stripe. I don't see how welcoming women as well as men into the engineering -- and every other -- team at our company can reasonably be called "lying" or "dishonest." No, we can't singlehandedly change the g
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by sheena 15y ago
We certainly understand that for some specific billing situations, Stripe's subscriptions API may not be a good fit. That said, we've tried to accommodate as many use cases as possible, and I just wanted to make sure you knew we have a pro
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by sheena 16y ago
Congratulations from another fairly new programmer. :) One UI suggestion: I find it clunky when a site forces me to choose from price ranges that don't overlap (e.g. $5 to 10, $10 to $15, etc.). Generally people making purchasing decisions
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by sheena 16y ago
Many of the included apps (like NYTimes, Amazon, etc.) have Chrome Web Store apps that are separate from their regular websites. (Of course, it's debatable whether these app versions are preferable to their standard website counterparts.
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by sheena 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The date mixup was a typo that somehow escaped our notice despite several re-readings, but good point about reminding users what the service is. That you yourself think about your product daily is no reason to ent
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by sheena 16y ago
We have plans to expand the available widgets and to let you make your own.
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by sheena 16y ago
The whole app is written in Cappuccino. To be more precise, that canvas is a custom CPView. :)
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by sheena 16y ago
As Saikat said, I use Textmate. There are decent bundles available for Objective-J/Capp. I'd also add that you should use Webkit (specifically Safari) when profiling Cappuccino apps for the best results.
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by sheena 16y ago
I'd recommend reading through some of the comments on http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading for some perspectives on how men and women experience the world very differently in many cases. While the general tenor of discussio
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by sheena 16y ago
I'm a female co-founder (Mockingbird - http://www.gomockingbird.com ). My co-founder is a guy. We interviewed with YC last year, though we didn't end up getting funded. Best of luck with weddingtype and your application; whatever the ou
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by sheena 16y ago
At Harvard at least people didn't like that the male final clubs (which are no longer affiliated with the university) predated all other clubs by many years and came to own prime real estate in Cambridge. It's near impossible for present-d
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by sheena 16y ago
Radiolab's "Stress" episode ( http://www.radiolab.org/2007/apr/09/ ) mentions rat studies in which experimenters made rats sick by subjecting them to extreme physical stressors (cold, treadmills, forcing them to swim for hours until exhaust
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by sheena 16y ago
However, the problem isn't the medium or the message, it's us. Unless you're claiming that people themselves have fundamentally changed, I don't see how the medium gets absolved of responsibility. The medium influences us, doesn't it? W
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by sheena 16y ago
Heh, I was talking about my 17-year-old self , not my 17-year-old child (a terrifying thought). My point was more that a lot of advice has a catch-22-ish quality in that only experience makes its truth sink in, by which time it's often to
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by sheena 16y ago
If you wouldn't recommend Lehrer, what would you recommend?
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by sheena 16y ago
I wonder if there is a way to bring realizations born of other people's experiences home in any meaningful way. I sometimes think about what advice I'd give my 17-year-old self if I had to attend college again, but I admit that the younger
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by sheena 16y ago
He's saying it's better than the first option: pursuing a business that requires a very high percentage of quality employees in order to have any chance of succeeding.
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by sheena 17y ago
Have you employed this tactic?
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by sheena 17y ago
Extremely well executed. My only quibble is the name, which makes me think of Batista or Zapatistas. I could be the only one, though.
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by sheena 17y ago
You may be right about the target market, but it's not fair to say it's just a cube. It's had its corner lobbed off, and it's off-kilter. Those changes aren't simple; the result completely lacks the self-contained stability of the cubes a
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by sheena 17y ago
Yes, for all the emphasis about separating structure and style, I think the piece misses the bigger problem: the difficulty of changing that structure while you're writing. The author says "first one types one's text and gets its logical
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by sheena 17y ago
Or it could be fast driving, not fast cars, that increases testosterone levels (the difference between highway and downtown driving in both the Porsche and the Camry group seems to suggest that possibility) -- and people driving Porsches ju
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by sheena 17y ago
I don't see how you can ever get a properly controlled test for this. The power of luck aside, it seems inevitable that the population of people who never get around to a second venture because of the success of a first venture is fundamen
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by sheena 17y ago
True. I didn't mean that some markets don't support price discrimination, just that customers' perception of it -- if they know it's going on -- is terrible. With airline tickets, people see prices fluctuating over time: lots of bumps but
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by sheena 17y ago
It might be a better way in theory, but do you know of anyone who's actually employed the technique without severely alienating customers? You mention Amazon as a general A/B tester, but Amazon's price testing is the most prominent example
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by sheena 17y ago
Agreed. The visual placement of the grid is a large part of the problem. You'd be able to discern the flow (and logic) of the assignment far better if the grid were placed in between the two sums, for example.
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by sheena 17y ago
Or she doesn't want to wax eloquent about the attractiveness of other guys to her boyfriend?

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