shepwalker

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by shepwalker 2y ago
PR's are not split into submodules/frameworks for distinct review purposes. Functionally though, right now we have three distinct monorepos (not very 'mono' but we're working on it!), that represent our three main d
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by shepwalker 2y ago
Hi! I work at Stripe on this. What're you curious about?
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by shepwalker 4y ago
yeaaah, I used to hold this view and drove a team - hard - to essentially pull apart a monorepo into different components with clear contract boundaries. It was by far one of my greatest errors in professional judgement. at the risk of comi
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by shepwalker 6y ago
the amount of internal denial about the pay gap between us and FANG companies is pretty silly. a lot of high performers get the principal-band bump tangled in front of them for years as an incentive. (level 66+. level 65 is the first "
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by shepwalker 7y ago
Oh lord, product studio. Back in 2013 the preferred method of filing workitems for a given "wave" was to load this spreadsheet, do weiiird formatting, and indentation, type up all the workitems you foresee for the next sprint and
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by shepwalker 7y ago
Absolutely, agreed. But unilateral disarmament isn't the way to do so. If Stripe has a nice post about vehemently supporting politicians and policies that aim to get corporate money out of politics, they will quietly get my upvote and
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by shepwalker 7y ago
You can't throw a wifi-enabled juicer 5 feet without hitting half a dozen companies that are trying to be 'technological catalysts'. You're giving extra credit for unproven rate of return, which I'd still argue won&
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by shepwalker 7y ago
I'm a big 'ol fan of Stripe, but large scale change isn't going to happen through corporate self regulation. I wish tech companies that insist they want to make large, positive changes would come to terms with the fact that p
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by shepwalker 7y ago
You can get similar behavior with Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/pcutvzhj8nc4auu/indy_asleep.jpeg And OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqxVBILuAH4kssIAdGJhBtwUCm5DhA {I assume Box has somethi
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by shepwalker 10y ago
I always tell people that my life-saving workout device was the Kindle 3. In 2010, I was 315 lbs, sedentary as hell and not making any progress to fix that. The idea of running just seemed like complete drudgery. I ended up making a pact
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by shepwalker 11y ago
But depending on how stringent your bounding box for "culture fit" is, you end up building an archetype for age, gender, education and ethnicity of your target employee. The point is is that if you're targeting people who beh
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The soccer ball and the solar system(arcadiy.org)
2 points by shepwalker 11y ago|0 comments