How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by forkLding on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:18PM (#14903047)

I'm thinking for the layman who doesnt code which Bloomberg also targets, this distinction is pretty negligible so in a way its not totally clickbait because its still seven lines of code, for developers it seems to be the code you write whereas the title could go anyway

Also really appreciate Stripe, registered for Delaware with them

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by saurik on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:26PM (#14903128)

To the layman, I imagine this reads as either "they spent a few minutes writing one paragraph and made $9B" or "they agonized for years over something as small as a single paragraph that was worth $9B"; neither of these are reasonable interpretations. It is only to the advanced technical reader that I think there is any hope of them interpreting it in the correct manner.

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by tajen on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:34PM (#14903858)

It participates to negating the difficulty of building and delivering a product, thereby giving said laymen a sense of entitlement over "undeserved wealth".

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by adam12 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:17PM (#14903676)

I think it would be even more misleading for a layperson.

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