I kinda went through this when I joined my current employer. My boss's emails were (are) at worst unintelligible and best hard to follow, weirdly formatted and generally hard to grok. Usually they are just blocks of text that are one big garden path sentance. But it all magically goes away in client communications
Not sure why this is, but it never really bothered me. It took me a while to learn my boss's interpretation of the English language. I don't think its a case of being in a position where it doesn't matter, other department heads don't do this, I reckon its just down to necessity.
You aren't trying to portray an image of yourself to your team, you don't need to come across as a poet laureate for internal discussions.
If you are trying to craft an image of yourself to your team instead of doing your job well and letting your work build your image you are doing something wrong
Spend your time wisely, put effort into your emails where it matters, format everything nicely, double/triple check your grammar, but among colleagues you don't need to pretend
I dont think people fully realise how novel Stripe actually is.
The idea of capturing payments via an API itself isn't unique, but the fact that as a company Stripe is actually on average pretty competent. I've never had an issue with stripe on the integration side because that just works.
I work with a massive variety of payment gateways, I'd imagine more than most people on this site ever will, 90% of them suck. The big ones all suck, Stripe's "competitors" suck. They all have effectively the same API but the issues are organisational.
Stripe is a technology company, its technology is good, its approach to the end user (Technical people implementing it) is good. The rest are finance companies and you get all the slow to move, impossible to get through to bureaucracy that comes with it. Of course they didn't respond to the actually issue and said "You've already solved it" and then ignored the actual problem. These payment providers sell their services to business not developers or anyone with technical chops.
They wont care about these issues because your boss has already been sold on the product, the issues are very very unlikely to change their mind and it is now your problem to solve.
> The rest are finance companies and you get all the slow to move, impossible to get through to bureaucracy that comes with it.
Look, I 100% get what you're saying here, but it's not (entirely) the other companies fault. The financial sector is incredibly regulated, and they're required to have policies and procedures for everything which leads to a terrible, no good, sub par user experience.
Stripe has (so far) managed to avoid this, but if (when) they end up in the regulators cross-hairs they too will become like many other financial companies. I mean, I want to be wrong on this but I don't think I am.
This is why a sane e-commerce platform should have routing through a bunch of different payment processors so they're not vulnerable to the regulator or regulatory officer anomalous behavior at any particular one.
How do you think Stripe had avoided the regulators crosshairs? Probably because the users are satisfied and not complaining. Which brings us back full circle to GP's comment on why users are happy.
I mean, Stripe are pretty young for a financial company. Assuming they keep growing, they'll eventually end up as the focus of regulation.
They do seem to be a very well run company, but if they end up as a bank, then they'd be globally systemic and at that point they'll be a focus for regulatory scrutiny
I mean the RIRA is a splinter group of the PIRA which had massive funding from overseas, especially from the United States. PIRA was not a small-time group.
I'm assuming that's a typo missing a zero (i.e. should be half a million), not a typo substituting comma for decimal (i.e. five hundred quid). Even with 24 years of inflation, that spend does not suggest a big group to me.
Hearing some of these stories of Belfast its hard to believe. Flew out of both Belfast International and Belfast City airports last year and they are by far the best airports I have ever had the luxury of travelling through.
Out of Belfast I flew into both Heathrow and Stanstead both are fucking miserable ordeals.
I put my Linkedin and my Twitter, don't bother with politicking on my Twitter and my LinkedIn is a hollow sad looking profile. Didn't realise it was optional and just put it in.
Can't wait to get turned away at the border when flying there in a few months for a new job for liking something years ago.
We have some basic endpoint security (Huntress) and DNS filtering (Was Cisco OpenDNS, something else now but not a clue what it is as I never installed the client).
We used to have local admin accounts as our normal logins, but we changed that for Cyber Essentials Plus, so now we have our normal logins and then our elevated name_admin accounts to do anything thats needed.
Not really bothered by any of that, but what I do care about is we recently put a new GPO that locks the background to the company approved branded one, that upset me a touch I liked my background. Now I have this garish purple and orange background :(
Cannot wait for another version of Lua to sit unused basically everywhere.
Truly is a shame, everything seems to have settled on 5.1 for the most part without ever being updated, or any intention of it being updated. Some really nice features post 5.1
I understand each version of Lua introduces breaking changes in the language, which isn't great as the language becomes fragmented (Or not really, once again 5.1 is pretty ubiquitous)
The real reason everyone settled on Lua 5.1 is because that's the version LuaJIT is compatible with, and most people are unwilling to give up the performance gains.
5.1 (by way of LuaJIT) gets a lot of use, but to suggests no one uses the modern versions is just not true. Lua being an embedded language just takes the pressure away to upgrade. It's a feature, not a bug.
1. The luajit documentation basically just had a list of features. AFAIK there isn't any documentation that combines the 5.1 reference with luajit extensions (including things that were backported)
2. In some cases, for example Neovim, luajit extensions aren't guaranteed to be available. It just says there will be a lua runtime compatible with 5.1. Which means a truly portable neovim plugin can't use those extensions
3. There are features from later lua versions I would like to have (in particular <const> and <close>) that will probably never get backported.
4. Some features require luajit to be built with special flags
Ooh very nice. Going to keep an eye on this, because while qlabs is nice, it certainly is up there in price for some features I require. Just had to spend nearly 100$ on renting it for this week!
Any plans on supporting video playback and rudimentary keystoning? The audio features in qlabs are alright, the video is its killer feature that similar software often touted as alternatives lack.
I have recently taken a job with an American based company and will need to complete a few weeks training in Miami. Based on the information they have given me I need a B1 visa and maybe an ESTA since I'm in the UK, and a C-1/D for moving through the US.
However they keep flip flopping between me needing a B1 and me just using my ESTA for the training, and their communication hasn't been the most straight forward. Which visa do I need to get to enter the US for the training?
Whether you present a B-1 visa or ESTA for admission, you will be seeking admission as a business visitor. Under these circumstances, my advice is almost always not to risk a denial of a B-1 visa application (which happens all the time) and to travel on ESTA. The only relative downside is that ESTA limits admission to 90 days. But of course run this all by the company's immigration counsel.
Not a lawyer. The VWP (ESTA) for business specifically says:
> attend short-term training (you may not be paid by any source in the United States with the exception of expenses incidental to your stay)
"source in the US" might be problematic if you're paid by the US company directly and not a UK arm. You'd have to take those days as unpaid, except for a per diem? If you're paid in pounds by a UK source, ought to be fine.
I would confidently say you do not need a C visa. That's for immediate transit (like you have to change airports or something, and you would use an ESTA anyway). A D visa is for people like airline crew who have to stay and have to work whilst there (like getting an aircraft ready for international departure from a US airport). If you needed that, your company ought to know.
My understanding of the B-1 visa is all you really need is a letter of employment. Might get tricky with you providing the letter of employment to yourself however.
Not sure why this is, but it never really bothered me. It took me a while to learn my boss's interpretation of the English language. I don't think its a case of being in a position where it doesn't matter, other department heads don't do this, I reckon its just down to necessity.
You aren't trying to portray an image of yourself to your team, you don't need to come across as a poet laureate for internal discussions.
If you are trying to craft an image of yourself to your team instead of doing your job well and letting your work build your image you are doing something wrong
Spend your time wisely, put effort into your emails where it matters, format everything nicely, double/triple check your grammar, but among colleagues you don't need to pretend
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