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by zbrock 3mo ago
Yep!
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by zbrock 3mo ago
We spent a lot of time tweaking skills, doc files, and prompts. I’d say that was our primary activity as engineers. Our job became tweaking the harness every time we got code or results we didn’t like. Eventually we were pretty happy with m
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by zbrock 3mo ago
This was primarily an Electron app with some small hosted backend services
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by zbrock 3mo ago
1. Yes! Many teams internally have adopted a lot of the same practices we outlined in the blog post. Ryan has also been spending time both internally and externally helping companies figure out how to do this in their code bases. 2. Hmm, ki
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by zbrock 3mo ago
Correct on the first part, partially correct on the second. LOC is a bad metric, but it is at least a legible one. Lots of people working on better ways to measure Software Productivity!
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by zbrock 3mo ago
At the time we wrote the article we hadn’t released the product and weren’t ready to talk about it. It was an internal prototype that looked very much like the current Codex app.
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by zbrock 3mo ago
Hello! I’m one of the three engineers who write this piece. Happy to answer questions.
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Building Powerful AI Agents with Adept and AWL(adept.ai)
1 points by zbrock 2y ago|0 comments
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This New Breed of AI Assistant Wants to Do Your Boring Office Chores(wired.com)
1 points by zbrock 3y ago|0 comments
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Building our own video conferencing solution with daily.co(lee.af)
14 points by zbrock 6y ago|1 comments
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The Four 5Gs(medium.com)
13 points by zbrock 7y ago|0 comments
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Shift – Safe and easy online MySQL migrations (a new Square open source project)(corner.squareup.com)
17 points by zbrock 10y ago|0 comments
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by zbrock 11y ago
They did that already in the 80s, they're called Incentive Stock Options
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by zbrock 11y ago
"What are the current salary bands at your company for someone with my level of experience?"
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Shuttle: Square's open source internationalization tool(wired.com)
11 points by zbrock 13y ago|0 comments
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by zbrock 15y ago
We sync your items, settings and payment history between multiple devices. That was...not easy.
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by zbrock 15y ago
Thank you! Our in house video team is pretty awesome.
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by zbrock 15y ago
Do you know of any high traffic sites that aren't?
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by zbrock 15y ago
We pair a fair bit at Square. We require that all code either be paired on or go through code review, but let each team decide their own process. Some of the teams pair 90+% of the time, and some pair only infrequently.
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Failing Fast - Stuff We Should Have Done Better at Square(confreaks.net)
48 points by zbrock 15y ago|4 comments
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Square goes mainstream(theatlantic.com)
4 points by zbrock 15y ago|0 comments
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by zbrock 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Square ( https://squareup.com/jobs ) We're going to change the way people pay. We've got some big backers ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/square ), a bunch of really smart people and a product that people absolutely lo
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Fsync or Swim Part 1: Error Handling(corner.squareup.com)
1 points by zbrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by zbrock 16y ago
We don't store any data on the device per PCI security standards. We mention this on our security page: https://squareup.com/security
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by zbrock 16y ago
We're working on it!
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by zbrock 16y ago
Definitely on our todo list.
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by zbrock 16y ago
Also, we're hiring: https://squareup.com/jobs Square is a great place to work. It's an awesome team that's working on solving a big and real problem. On the server side we're mostly writing Ruby and practice pairing, TDD and aggressive r
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by zbrock 16y ago
I think you underestimate the complexity of the payments space. It's pretty heavily regulated by the federal government (OFAC, AML), the payment card companies (MATCH, PCI) and local governments (MTLs, tax laws). Going through the audit p
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by zbrock 16y ago
Square's goal is to be device agnostic. We're definitely thinking about NFC and we're looking forward to NFC capable phones hitting the market. Hopefully the Nexus S will get upgraded to be transmit capable soon and we can do some neat th
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by zbrock 16y ago
If you really want to dig into objects in irb, you should check out https://github.com/matthew/method_lister It'll give you a really good idea of where all those methods on your objects come from.

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