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Russell Davis @_RussellDavis

Engineering @AnthropicAI. Previously: @StainlessAPI, @stripe (@sorbet_ruby), @thehipmunk, @plaxo.

Joined January 2008
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Pushbullet@pushbullet
13 May 2020
Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/…

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David Chapman
@Meaningness
9 Jan 2020
.@slatestarcodex is an extraordinary, massive, persistent force of nature, like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot or something. Read his decade in review and be gobsmacked: slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/0…

What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s?

One of the best parts of writing a blog is being able to answer questions like this. Whenever I felt like I understood new and important, I wrote a post about it. This makes it easy to track what I…

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Dan Luu@danluu
6 Jul 2019
Periodic reminder that many (most?) citations are bogus. This happens to be about the claim that 3.5 hours/day of deliberate practice is the right amount, but I find this level of accuracy when I check most citations: acesounderglass.com/2019/06/…

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Epistemic spot checks typically consist of references from a book, selected by my interest level, checked against either the book’s source or my own research. This one is a little different t…

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Congrats to my former team for shipping and open-sourcing this. In my (biased) opinion it's a must-have for writing Ruby at scale.
Sorbet@sorbet_ruby
20 Jun 2019
We’re excited to announce that Sorbet—a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby, built by @Stripe—is now open source! See sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/o… for more.
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Fun fact: it's written in C . This has its pros and its cons, but one thing is for sure: it's *fast*. Speed gets neglected in comparables like TypeScript, to their detriment: x.com/garybernhardt/status/1…

Gary Bernhardt@garybernhardt
15 Jun 2018
In 2008, I was extremely frustrated by Ruby imposing a constant ~100 ms startup penalty on hello world. In 2018, computers are ~3.5 times faster (4479 vs. 1266 Geekbench for 2007 vs. 2017 MBP). TypeScript imposes a 1600 ms startup penalty on hello world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%…
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TechCrunch
@TechCrunch
25 Apr 2019
Render gets $2.25M seed round to give developers alternative to biggest names in tech tcrn.ch/2W7W8yH by @ron_miller
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Dan Luu@danluu
5 Apr 2017
Most published research is unreproducible or wrong, part N nature.com/nature/journal/v5…
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Stripe
@stripe
21 Mar 2016
.@BarackObama advocates @Stripe for Cuban entrepreneurs. 🇺🇸🇨🇺🐳
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Stripe
@stripe
23 Mar 2015
The new Connect lets sellers in 18 countries get paid. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇬🇧 (Stripe has wider international coverage than the emoji dictionary. 😐)
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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
24 Dec 2014
Proud to work alongside everyone who made this happen: stripe.com/blog/the-intervie…. Happy holiday from @stripe.

Stripe Blog: Online Payment Solutions Blog

Follow the Stripe blog to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, payment solutions, and business initiatives.

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Verifying myself: I am russell on Keybase.io. -P5-9htBupp7bAgHA9pYkoii_EkqM0kZSiAh / keybase.io/russell/sigs/-P5-…
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Stripe
@stripe
22 May 2014
You can now send money to debit cards with Stripe: stripe.com/blog/send-money-t…

Using Custom connected accounts

Learn about Custom connected accounts. Custom connected accounts are deprecated, so don't use them for new integrations.

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John Collison
@collision
25 Apr 2014
Spotted a @patio11 holding court at @stripe. He's probably telling them to charge more.
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Verifying myself: I am russell on Keybase.io. tgylEb9arIMCTSxqUVogTo3hTAoW56wiHSP6 / keybase.io/russell/sigs/tgyl…
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Irma 🚀✨@illo_luv
5 Mar 2014
So, this is happening on twitter right now. I needed to put it all together for you all to enjoy as much as I did!
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Stripe
@stripe
11 Feb 2014
We just added 135 new currencies to Stripe. No setup required. stripe.com/blog/new-currenci…

135 new currencies

Starting today, businesses using Stripe in the US and Europe can accept payments in 139 currencies.

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ಠ_ಠ @Wealthfront overstates the benefits of tax loss harvesting by an order of magnitude: kitces.com/blog/wealthfront-… (cc @cjc)
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Stripe
@stripe
22 Jan 2014
CTF3 is now live: stripe.com/blog/ctf3-launch

Stripe CTF3: Distributed Systems

We're proud to launch Capture the Flag 3: Distributed Systems. Without further ado, you can now jump in and start playing. If you complete all the levels, we'll send you a special-edition Stripe CTF3...

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