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

Two years ago I moved to France and started looking for opportunities in Paris. I found the culture to be quite different. I went on many interviews, and here are the differences I have observed:

- Interview questions are less uniform, you have very different formats and questions from one company to another. Feels like the industry is warming up, but is not mature yet. - Questions are focused on high-level concepts like Domain drive design, using classes vs functions, whereas in silicon valley you get asked questions about data structures and algorithms, multi-threaded programming, guarantees of a system, pros and cons of a system, etc. - I found the interviews to be a lot easier.

I am having a hard time understanding if: - This is just a different culture? - The industry is not as mature? - This is an industry-wide shift? - I am just nostalgic of California? :)

To be honest, I found the quality of apps that you can find on the French app store not as good as the ones you can find in the US (Seloger.com vs trulia, Venmo vs Lydia,...), but we also have some insanely good apps (Alan, Molotov TV). That being said, I have no actual quantitative way of measuring that.

To be clear: I am not implying that people are smarter in the valley than in France, my overall feeling is more about the maturity of the ecosystem. In the valley, start-ups have been around for a longer time, you have people who moved from big tech to startups, back to big tech, and so on...

Any insight is welcomed, I am just sharing my overall feeling here. Be kind :)

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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.

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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!

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 : but this let you only load js files. 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, ,