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While this is a definite failure for Jet's optimistic investors, it's likely a great opportunity for Wal-Mart to challenge Amazon, and a win for consumers. It's
by grandalf 10y ago
While this is a definite failure for Jet's optimistic investors, it's likely a great opportunity for Wal-Mart to challenge Amazon, and a win for consumers. It's also a big win for OCaml.
I tried shopping at Jet and while some of the prices were very good, others were worse than Amazon, and little things like product detail information, pictures, etc., were strongly subpar. Product search was also in serious need of tuning.
Does anyone know which pieces of infrastructure (or ops) that Jet built have the most value to Wal-Mart?
- ubertaco 10y agoJet's an F# shop though, not an OCaml shop.
- sgrove 10y agoI think Jet.com is actually F# [0] (which is of course very similar to OCaml, but has quite a different ecosystem/tooling/etc.) [0] - https://tech.jet.com/blog/2015/03-22-on-how-jet-chose/ https://tech.jet.com/blog/2015/03-22-on-how-jet-chose/
- TimMeade 10y agoAll i know is i shopped on the site exactly once. i ordered 2 cases of monster drinks at a fantastic price. Looked exactly like the amazon page. When they arrived they were 'monster hide safe cans'. Basically empty cans. When i tried to return they wanted 40% restocking. Total Fraud.
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