- Saw a few people recommend this so decided to listen, but was disappointed. Penelope seems smart, and It's kind-of interesting, but way too gushingly positive to take seriously - it's basically a press release/ job posting for why you should work at Stripe.
- Stripe is a Sinatra monolith - prob largest ruby repo in existence
- Dropbox paper and Google docs used internally
- Also using Jira 😱
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- Continue to get so much value from this newsletter
- Chartkick has really come on - looks amazing
- rails-pg-extras worth checking out for postgres performance.
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- Talks about retroactive IP
- Heroku marketplace needs 100 beta customers before you can charge
- Importance of patience
- Freemium = “own the lead” - about marketing not pricing - like this
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- Disco is a recommendation library. It looks at ratings or actions from users to predict other items they might like, known as collaborative filtering
- "fastText is a text classification and word representation library. It can label documents with one or more categories, which is useful for content tagging"
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- Can probably use this to build the official Atlas iOS extension
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