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Find a time of day that you read - I always read fiction before bed. When I read non-fiction, it is usually with breakfast/before work.

Stop sweating the 'opportunity cost' of doing things - just do them if you enjoy them, and don't worry about how you could have been spending your time more effectively/efficiently.

+1 to this. After the few major screw-ups I've caused at work, my self-confidence in my coding ability is rocked, and I tended to react by erring towards manual cleanup, rather than coding some scalable solution for fixing the issues

This type of career progression interests me. What type of internal politics did Parag have to maneuver to be appointed to these high profile roles? As someone with C-level career aspirations, it makes me wonder if I'm not cut out for the politics. I'm not Machiavellian. Can people make it to C-suite via merit alone?

I actually seem to have the opposite result. I seem to only be able to find documents that were shared with me, or that I accessed myself. I want to be able to find documents that I have not actually seen, yet have access to view. Confluence is a bit like this - i can search all of the spaces and get results from other parts of the org. but drive seems to push results to the top which are more localized to my immediate previous use

I'm confused by your event time fields, are they 24hr? I tried to enter in 2:33pm to 2:33pm and got validation errors.

> "Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it,” he said."

Sounds like sunk-cost fallacy.

> "And by the way, I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump.”

Sounds like a misleading personal appeal to CA residents that dislike Trump.

Why would we settle for a high speed line ONLY between Merced and Bakersfield? Merced is a dinky little town of 80k and is several hours out from SF and San Jose via public transport and via car. Who is going to use this high-speed rail?

Traveling SF to LA using this new line would mean: 1. Either driving 2.5 hours to Merced or taking a 3 hour, $30 Amtrak 2. Getting on the high-speed train (ticket price tbd) 3. Taking a 3 hour, $45 Amtrak from Bakersfield to LA

So using this new line I can take 6 hours + (high speed rail time hours), two transfers, and cost $75 + (high speed rail ticket cost).

Or I could take a $30 dollar greyhound in eight hours

I struggle to focus after a full day of work and other tasks. I especially struggle to focus on technical work, and learning new things is difficult. How do you have the energy to sit down for another few hours of technical work after a full day of work?

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> Reddit also doesn't have cute features like emoticons, their markdown isn't as intuitive as BBCode tags to me, and the versatility of a given Reddit board is limited to what can be done with CSS and each board's Wiki.

We do have a set of "snoomoji" that will be released soon. Not sure of the scope of the release (they're already in use for our chat feature).

BBCode tags and markdown are too complicated for most users, so we've introduced a rich-text editor for comments and posts.

We do host images and video. It doesn't make sense for us to host other files.

> Am I joining the e-Dinosaur ranks?

I ask myself this when I watch young people use snapchat.

Sounds like a useful product in theory, but chose not to use it because it immediately asked for a location and authentication with Google or Facebook. Why would you need that information right off the bat? I have no incentive to create a profile on your product without getting to try it out first.

Infinite space of solutions? I think not. If the harassment was in any way sexual, the company had a legal responsibility to investigate. It may have been a timely matter and the best and/or only solution was to read the messages at the offending intern's workstation.

These pitfalls sound specific to payment systems, but really they're just software engineering pitfalls viewed through a payment lens.

Be careful around the types you're using to represent monetary amounts. Strongly typed languages will give you some defense against accidental rounding errors (don't use floats).

Are you adding a payment system to a product or are you creating a payment service that your product will use? Coupling your product / business logic with your payment/billing code may work for now... but in a year you may need to add another consumer or extend the billing code in a way that won't be possible if it's too tightly coupled with the business logic. Will you need to support multiple payment options per user? Subscriptions?

Also, if you're planning on using a single CC processor, Stripe is a pretty good choice. Just be careful about the coupling I mentioned earlier, you don't want to be too tightly coupled to any external services (like Stripe or another processor).

Another thing to keep in mind -- what does downtime look like? Will your payments fail, will you lose customers? Or is it designed to handle and recover from downtime.