Ahah, what I have observed here (I have been in 3 start-ups and interviewed quite a few people) is that people work much longer hours. It's a pretty well-known thing among french expats: if you come back to France, you are more likely to work longer hours.

Again, this is just my view of the industry, with a few data points here and there.

From personal experience, I prefer to work for US companies. I worked for a few US based and for one French.

The gig in France didn't end well - I had to build an MVP of a video streaming service. It wasn't even a full-time job - it was part-time work - 4 hours per day. It ended after around 4 months.

It turned out that: - my everyday reports that I've sent wasn't read - they didn't test platform at any stage while I was developing it - they thought that if I received an HTML+CSS design from them it will be super easy to add missing features - they thought that HTML+CSS is like 80% of the work done :) - they were super not satisfied with result that they had after 4 months

And of course, it was just my fault :)

Doesn't sound like a France vs US issue but more like a really shitty experience at a shitty company.

Yes, of course. Over the years I had a mostly positive experience with North American companies - I may be super biased here, but I prefer to work for these companies.

That's valid point. Just wanted to mention that it isn't necessarily fair to French companies to judge them by one bad apple.

Another side not, which probably doesn't apply here, but in general: Work culture is different everywhere. Not better or worse, but just different and coming into a company with the wrong expectations and behavior is probably a recipe for disaster.

Your headline talks to me a lot.

If you can deliver on your promise then I would definitely be a user and a customer.

I am a software engineer and the design part is always a big problem for me, until a friend and ex-colleague of mine arrives.

Thanks! I'm excited to hear that. Give it a spin sometime and send feedback - the more feedback we get, the better our product will be :)

I did not know the touchbar was that capable. Great job.

But it’s already in the git objects and therefore accessible to anyone who clones the repository? I am not 100% sure about that. Can someone confirm?

We educate our customers on how to delete the branch and remove it from history: https://docs.datree.io/docs/do-not-include-secret-files

I think you're miseducating your customers.

If creds leak, rotate those creds. Then, you check your logs to make sure there was no intrusion.

"Rotate the creds" gives the absolute best guarantee that they're useless. Three words I can explain to a nervous manager.

"What if someone got ahold of those creds?"

"Well, boss, here's the window in which it could have happened, and let's go over these logs together to see if it did."

Scrubbing the repo? I'm skeptical that you're getting rid of anything without push --force, and you sure as heck aren't running `git gc --prune` on the remote system, let alone `bfg`.

I totally agree! you should rotate the keys! we explain how to get rid of it in terms of Git. This is in addition to rotating it. Sorry for not being clear

At Producteev, my old start-up, I implemented the payment system using Paypal, omg, it was so hard, and so painful for the following reason: - poor documentation - I never knew how to get an up to date documentation - very slow api and website - very hard to understand the meaning of the undocumented data etc.

Once, my co-founder @Ilan Abehassera sent me a link to an article about Stripe on Techcrunch:

I signed up to Stripe, within minutes I was able to charge my own credit card through a CURL bash call, everything was clear, recurring payment perfectly handled, discount, etc etc. And this was at the very beginning of Stripe. Then I had to come up with why we should quickly switch from Paypal to Stripe.

Anyway, very good memoery, you definitely set the standard for how an API should be designed and I can't thank you enough for that!

Wait wait WAIT! It is much more complicated than that.

You can make XHR (aka ajax) requests only if the CORS policy allows it (concretely, this local web server you are trying to access is answering with a specific HTTP header saying "I authorize the website xyz.com to send XHR request to me via the web browser of the client of xyz.com).

Now for everything outside of XHR(ajax), you can send different type of requests : <script src="..."></script> but this let you only load js files. <img src="..." /> but this lets you only load images, you can't really do much other than try to load images with that.

So if you get into the detail of each "web api" (XHR, <img/>, <script/>, etc) you will see that you are actually very limited.

> The major browsers I've tested — Safari, Chrome, Firefox — all allow web pages to send requests not only to localhost but also to any IP address on your Local Area Network! Can you believe that? I'm both astonished and horrified.

I guess this should serve as a cue that there is something off in what you are writing. You did not just discover a major security flaw in all web browsers while not being an experimented (at least web) software engineer.

Ex drive.ai employee here. I got $0 for my stocks.

purchase price < funding amount, investors had liquidity preferences, probably only a couple employees (if any) got anything

Were you employee at a time of acquisition?

why would it matter? I had vested a good chunk of my stocks. And it’s hard to define since they did not buy my shares.

Did they pay out everything to "preferred" shareholders, leaving employees with common shares holding an empty bag?

So Apple did not actually buy all of drive.ai?

I honestly have no idea of what I can say and what I can't say.

I think it's reasonable to think that I can share that nobody bought my shares. I can't talk for any other employee or anybody else.

The crunchbase story title "Apple Said To Have Bought Assets Of Struggling Drive.ai" perhaps indicates what happened. https://news.crunchbase.com/news/drive-ai-reportedly-closing...

what was the grant value of your stocks?

I love the concept. I would love to have anentry point to cost function with the following parameters:

- traffic - elevation gain - type of street - a way to represent the distance overhead compare the other segments.

Any framework / dev env where I could easily get that entry point and see the top results on a map?

Yes -- at the bottom of the post we show how you can use our mapzen.js library to draw routes on a map. If you know Leaflet it's relatively straightforward.