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Strong agree. The need to transition to microservices will sneak up on an organization -- and that's okay. It's surprising how much life you can squeeze out of a monolith.

I agree with you for the most part. The number of people who could run Shopify at the current scale is definitely more than 80 people but probably less than 10000.

They took a big bet on global growth and this would've exploded HC related to sales, marketing, compliance, recruiting, etc. They pulled hiring forward on an expectation that the market advanced 5 years during COVID and now have to cull that new growth. Lots of late stage private companies and recent IPOs are going through the same thing.

I worked at Intel for 5+ years. I was a CS grad and most of my peers were EE grads. The amount of folks who I saw over the years retrain themselves for a move to software development was pretty large. If this is happening at a blue blood for EEs it's a decent sign the market is drying up.

I'm not too sure about this. Stripe has double trigger RSUs with a 6 or 7mo lock up.

Let's say they went public in '21 instead of raising money in June of that year. The market would've already turned by the end of the lockup period. By delaying the IPO there is still some chance that the shares can be sold on the public market for more than the grant price -- I would note that this really benefits Stripe hired post-2020 but at this point that's like 75% of the company.

One thing I've always wondered: how aligned is the current spot price to day to day transactions when the trading day is active?

Let's say EUR/USD reaches parity for 2 hours during the trading day and I'm in Europe -- for those two hours are my transactions 1 to 1 or is there a lag of a few hours? Or is the "on the ground" exchange rate representative of the previous closing price?

And the court has previously understood and affirmed this "leeway" after Chevron v. NRDC. So its another case of the court overruling precedent.

The court has already ruled in Chevron v. NRDC that executive agencies have deference in interpretation of statues if Congress has not explicitly granted that power. The Clean Air act was passed in 1970 to ensure air quality, through science and the advancement of our understanding the EPA has identified CO2 as a toxic pollutant. I don't understand why we need an updated law by Congress when the EPA is much closer to the issue.

I really don't understand the decision. In my mental model the executive branch exists to implement the laws that Congress passes, Congress deliberately leaves leeway in laws to give the executive branch flexibility, this flexibility has been previously affirmed by the court decision Chevron v. NRDC.

This decision seems to give more power to Congress but on net I think it makes the laws Congress passes weaker because it strips away the effectiveness of the implementation.

Interesting to note that a decent chunk of this 9M goes directly to Stripe. SS has all these writers and subscribers but is making peanuts.

*In the west.

I think gender equality may be a big culprit. Take the US for example: women will dominate the college educated class soon if they haven't already, and with that economic freedom comes more optionality in choosing a partner, there are more choices to be had and there will be a self selection of the most desirable men (typically college educated as it correlates to income).

This is not to blame women in any sense, it's a great thing that we're achieving a more equal society, but with a industrial well educated society more optionality with partners will lead to less sex imo.

I think this is overrated. I went to a rinky dink community college. It was a very urban school (meaning, no grassy hillside campus, we were in the middle of NYC and students had jobs and families to go) and did not have a campus life, so I didn't make many connections with my other students. I still ended up with a great degree in CS and a great job. For sure if I went to a campus I'd have more opportunities to network and maybe be further in my career, but I achieved success without that.

Klarna feels like a feature to me, not a self sustaining business. I don't know what other capabilities they provide for merchants but I don't think BNPL can stand on its own, especially in a downturn.

The first code base I worked on professionally was Perl. While I admire it's power I never got used to it. It was very difficult for me to read and our code base was pretty large and I didn't feel like Perl handled OOP well at all. When we switched to Python it was like a breath of fresh air.

I left Intel in late 2020. Worked a bit on Meteor Lake in the pre-silicon design phase starting around '18 or so. I never really got over the lag between the most intense period of my day to day on a particular product and launch.

I can't help but wonder if Netflix is considering going after password sharing. It may be a short term boost but at least then we can gauge the true subscriber base.

I don't know about the validity of the bid (fifty.. four twenty?) but man does Twitter need a kick in the ass. The product has been stagnant since birth but has so much potential, I'd be interested to see what reforms Elon would bring in.

I joined Stripe in July. I'm new and at a lower level so I have not been tasked with giving interviews, but my peers are definitely swamped with interviewing on top of all the other crunched timelines and pressure you'd expect at a fast growing org. I suspect the hiring pressure put on ICs had led to a brittle system which causes these mishaps.

I joined Stripe over the summer.

Sorry to hear about the ghosting, my interview experience was very different to yours, no re-scheduling, and my recruiter was great with respect to timely follow up.

Now that I'm at the company, I've seen how much stress folks are under to interview. Stripe is currently exploding in HC and it's definitely taking a toll on folks who are being tasked with multiple interviews per week which include not just the interview itself but evaluation/coordination/feedback/etc.

Started a new job in July. It's my first time using slack so heavily for day to day business needs. After some adjustment I've gotten used to it and enjoy it a lot. Now it's down and I feel like I can't do anything. We have gchat available but no one else is using it and we can't recreate our slack channels in gchat. I've been rendered totally ineffective.

I was diagnosed w/ ADHD in 2019. When doing research and seeing what the causes could be -- I noticed that lead paint was among possible contributors. I decided to google what lead paint looked like, and realized the apartment I was raised in was covered in it.

This company is insane.

Weak leadership that fostered a political culture that they eventually lost control of, and a workforce so engulfed in politics that they lost sight of focus. DHH playing sick is just the Cherry on top. I can't say that I don't feel an enormous amount of that petty German word towards to founders who love to preach about company culture having this blow up so spectacularly.

Does anyone remember when DHH went on a long Twitter rant accusing the Apple Card as sexist? These guys built a culture that they couldn't control and when they tried to take a step back lost a third of their workforce.

Doubt it. They are bleeding talent, generating terrible PR, and definitely did not plan for a massive buyout this year. This plan backfired heavily. Am amazing case study in incompetent leadership.

From what I understood this wasn't a "we want to talk about Trump and BLM all day" situation but a "owners/leaders refuse to reckon with a toxic aspect of our internal culture".

At some point the two mixed, the "pyramid of hate" is definitely out of the SJW playbook and probably went a bit too far for some people's taste. But shame on the leaders who for years have written books and blogs about how awesome their culture is to have 1/3rd of your workforce (so far) leave because of that aforementioned culture.

Hold up. I could've sworn that I heard the other day that the German government was concerned about a militia like group that may have former military members involved. This headlines definitely made my ears jump.

Damn this is awesome. I'm actually dreading working from home because I don't have a desk, keyboard, or anything of the sort.

All players need to be tested. Thankfully they are young and healthy so the risk is low personally. Think about how many players lick their hands before a free throw and then pass it around, the refs touch the ball for tip off, etc. Damn a pandemic really makes you aware about how many microbes are out there.

I envy the broadcasters who have to bleep out all the cursing that normally is drowned out by crowd noise and arena music.

Corona really looking like the black swan event that ends this expansion. What a time.

Definitely. Imagine how long it took for news of the virus to bubble up the Chinese bureaucracy and how many people traveled during that time period.