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Patrick McKenzie
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Currently dogfooding upgrading my Stripe integration, because we should have to go through as least as many hoops as customers do.

Including, in this case, “Ahh joys of maintenance programming this is on Rails 3.2.x I wonder what is going to go wrong when I bump the library.”
I'm happy to report that literally nothing broke on the Stripe API or ruby bindings or their dependencies when doing a jump from stripe-ruby 1.8.3 to 4.12.0.

I did spend a lot of time reacquainting myself with 2012 me's organizational choices and disdain for functioning tests.
"You mean functional tests?"

Oh he hated those too.
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Patrick McKenzie
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The Internet is facilitating a lot of unbundling where the rationale for X being expensive is that it comes with embedded Y which is valuable but difficult to charge for directly.

Bundlers typically are not thrilled about the unbundling, and often argue about undersupply of Y.
I often think these are arguments of convenience, because the Internet is also generally making it easy to purchase Y directly... and the global market for Y supports a couple of cottage providers but nothing material relative to the bundle.
Examples abound, but some of the bundling stories:

Credentialing and liberal arts education
Books and the environment that is a bookstore or library
Taxis and the universal service mandate
Regurgitated wire service wrapped in ads and original local reporting
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Patrick McKenzie
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If anyone ever asks whether technical debt has a concrete cost, here’s Prosper paying $3 million because they lost institutional knowledge of how a number was calculated (and it snowballed from there): sec.gov/litigation/adm…
Prosper, which I did business with from both sides of their market (successfully), was often comprehensively mismanaged.

Example: for years, they described the way to calculate the return of a portfolio of loans as the interest rate minus the default rate.
They also got dinged by the SEC some years ago for selling securities unlawfully, and their strategy in response to this was to go Bond villain, which, while amusing, does not generally reduce the SEC’s desire to bring enforcement actions.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Everyone else has approximately the same amount of difficulty getting the }*}^{*#*]$}*ing thing to work as you did.

The genre of this changes over time and your toolbox for dealing it deepens, but this feeling basically never goes away.

Don’t worry about it.
Also: optimize early career for working at a company with a strong engineering culture and where you’ll own something important. This will maximize for skill growth.

Subject to that constraint, optimize for money, with an amount of aggression appropriate to a professional.
Lawyers/doctors don’t need to have angst over what the market pays them and neither do you.
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