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

Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by tracker1 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:34PM (#14903226)

There's a few misconceptions in the article beyond that.

    and the more modern bits are written by banks, 
    credit card companies, and financial middlemen, 
    none of whom are exactly winning hackathons for 
    elegant coding.

Hackathon code is never elegant... it's always piecemeal at the end in order to get it "done."

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by smsm42 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:36PM (#14903879)

I suspect whoever wrote that sentence has an extremely vague idea of what a hackathon is ("some coding contest??").

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by hobofan on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:45AM (#14908947)

Which is already a better picture than what most people have when I tell them I attended a hackathon: "So you all get together to try and hack the security system of a company?"

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by smsm42 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:13PM (#14914174)

Surprisingly, that description may be exactly true if you understand the word "hack" just right :)

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