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lxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

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lxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

Stripe | Integration Engineer | Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, or Remote | ONSITE, REMOTE, VISA

Stripe's Customer Engineering team in EMEA – working directly with the best-known and most technically complex companies in the world – needs tech-savvy, empathetic problem solvers to help design and deploy our user’s successful Stripe integrations.

We are looking for people who are comfortable in multiple programming languages, interested in working with our users, and delving into complex integration problems spanning time, currencies, and alternative payment methods.

We’re very keen to chat if you are:

* Confident and comfortable with customers. We're expecting to see customer facing roles in your past or present.

* A strong technical generalist. We come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but experience with full-stack development and software architecture patterns are critical to success in our roles.

* Comfortable with code-level debugging (Stripe code and user code).

* Empathetic, collaborative, communicative, consultative.

* Intellectually curious, with great problem solving skills. You will be challenged to find inventive solutions to technical and non-technical restrictions on both sides of an engagement, at the intersection of people, engineering and payments.

Please check out the Integration Engineer role on our jobs page: https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/integration-engineer-emea/22...

Have any questions about the above? Email me directly: lx+hn@stripe.com

lxon Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

disclaimer: not recommended, etc... but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://runkit.com/lxmedina/5d863141b387ad00138e273f

lxon Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

beware of PCI compliance requirements [0] but you can either create a payment method explicitly [1] or include the card details when handling a card payment [2] `{payment_method_data: {card: {…}}}`

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/security#validating-pci-compliance

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/create#create_pa...

[2] https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/reference#stripe-handle-ca...

lxon Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

Elements is not a requirement to create a PaymentMethod. The recommended path factors in PCI stuff etc. Feel free to email me to lx@stripe.com

lxon iOS bug triggered by censorship

Just to clarify, the original submission headline was «iOS bug triggered by 🇹🇼 censorship». The emoji there had a literal rather than symbolic meaning.

lxon iOS bug triggered by censorship

Sorry, I didn’t see the previous post. Different sources anyway, imho this one is a more complete analysis. I rewrote the original title since it was not informative enough ("A Remote iOS Bug”), and the subheading was too large to post (“apple wrote code to appease the chinese government ...it was buggy”). I don’t think the headline was misleading: the crash was absolutely related to the Taiwanese flag emoji censorship.

lxon MonadLibre – a monadic drink made in Cuba (FP Conf this summer)

Whilst some well-known experts have already agreed to share their ideas at this year's MonadLibre, we are still open for proposals. Please contact monadlibre@merchise.com

lxon Stripe Atlas launches in Cuba

We at Merchise Startup Circle are delighted to be partnering with Stripe Atlas to boost the Cuban startup ecosystem. Glad to answer any questions.

lxon How can we connect youth in the US with youth in Cuba?

A more detailed article about Do it Day 2015:

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/09/02/let-s-do-it-how-ibm-d...

lxon U.S. Embassy in Cuba Reopens After More Than 50 Years

Most direct investment is still forbidden due to the embargo... But I hope it will (somehow) boost the interest in exploring the Cuban startup scene.

[shameless plug] We're holding a meetup next Saturday in Havana: http://www.meetup.com/merchise/events/223604638/

lxon Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

Sorry, I had not seen it...

lxon Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

The previous submission (906 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055371

lxon Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus

It's "el paquete" and it's not a thumb drive but instead 1TB of data moved around every week in external HDD.

lxon Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud?

Final votes for the debate on The Economist (where TFA previously appeared): Yes-64% | No-36% http://debates.economist.com/debate/cloud-computing

lxon US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror

"The Moncada Barracks"? Seriously? Back then (1953), US government support to the dictatorship in Cuba was quite evident, but I don't think they would dub "terrorists" those attempting to overthrow it.

lxon US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror

I won't argue either... It seems I misunderstood your first comment. Sorry. Just for the sake of clarification, regarding ETA I'm aware there several versions of the story, but those 2010-ish US terrorism reports are not understandable when the very Spanish government was stating the contrary [+]. About the Colombian conflict, I've heard of the Cuban support to National Liberation Army (ELN) but never of any military support to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

[+] (Spanish) http://www.lavozlibre.com/noticias/ampliar/1041341/moratinos...

lxon US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror

I don't know what you mean by "backing terrorists"... actually I'm not sure of your definition of "terrorists", but if you meant members of the Basque separatist group ETA, you should be aware those ex-militants were sent from France through Panama to reside in Cuba after an agreement of the Spanish government (under Felipe González) with Cuba.

disclaimer: I'm Cuban

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

Rum and warm weather... uhmm... arguable. Way better some mojitos and a bit of chat ;-) Looking forward to meet you next time you come. Thanks

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

Hi Hector, we are expecting to hold monthly meetups... See you in July. Let us know before your flight.

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

Hi mate, thanks a lot... Any chance in joining us as a speaker in the near future?

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

Hi, please join as at http://www.meetup.com/merchise/ We have a mailing list there and will notify everyone as soon as venue and date for the first event are set.

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

Hi Javier, something must have gone wrong with the contact-form... we didn't get message. Please, drop us a line any time info-at-merchise-dot-com

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene

I'm Alex Medina, co-organizing the event with Rodney and Med... AmA

lxon Cuban Coders Looking to Energize a Nascent Startup Scene with First Meetup

I'm Alex Medina, co-organizer of Merchise Startup Circle... AmA

lxon The Worst (And Most Important) Smuggling Job in the History of Literature

The case: United States v. One Book Called Ulysses - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Calle...

lxon What are Google thinking: Part 2

"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.

"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.

"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked

"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered."They're trying to kill everyone."

"And what difference does that make?"

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Joseph Heller - Catch-22

lxon Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2010/12/03/i-am-boycotting-... --> I am Boycotting Amazon for the Holidays

«I’d like to thank Daniel Ellsberg (of the Pentagon Papers fame) for his call to boycott.»

lxon Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?

Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu

lxon Read Beyond the Headers

decompiled by Google?

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dxmvr/oracle_go...