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0 pointssamwillis2y ago0 comments

Interestingly Stripe started life as /dev/payments and I seem to remember the first iteration was an agent on your server that literally processed card payments when you wrote the details to /dev/payments

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ppbjj2y ago

That's awesome

niutech2y ago

You can still find the source code here: https://github.com/benweissmann/dev-payments

tazu2y ago

I'm guessing they ditched that idea because it wouldn't absolve the "writer" of PCI compliance, since the information has to pass through RAM.

cperciva2y ago

I thought /dev/payments was their second name. Weren't they /dev/creditcard or something like that first?

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