Joe8Bit

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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
Lots of people have talked eloquantly about the monetary greed the Super League entailed, but I think it misses the wider point, Kronke (et al) have long been pushing for a _redistribution of power_ in football, away from the 'leagues&
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Yeah, agreed. I was a Databricks skeptic when I first came across it, but it's value goes a LONG way beyond just managing Spark. For example, we found that Databrick's Spark (or their 'Delta engine' or whatever it's
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Technically it loads all images through a Google proxy[0] which in theory prevents third parties from using images for tracking. The third parties only get a 'hit' when Google pulls the image into their cache, which is not when yo
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
This is a very positive change, but I'd be interested to know how the Mozilla folks think about 'collateral damage' from a policy point of view. The exceptions and shared state lead me to believe they've thought about it
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Great article, but I think the conclusion about Google Maps languishing because it’s a low margin product is wrong. While Google Maps as a distinct product has a bottom and top line I think the author underestimates the value that the under
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Twilio wants to be an end-to-end 'customer engagement platform' so this is a super strong acquisition; in one go they've bought a huge chunk of the marketing automation eco-system, which pushes them really far up the customer
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
It’s a shame GitHub Actions don’t support “[skip ci]” in commit messages, as it seems be the convention similar tools have coalesced around
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Reasonable or not, it's a super widespread practice for marketing and PR departments to 'insist' on certain language when their products are referred to. A super notorious example of this is Apple insisting/asking that t
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
There's also a very good book by Bill Janeway (of Wargburg Pincus notoriety) on the same subject called 'Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State&#x
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
It's easy to draw comparisons between online/digital units and outdoor, they share a lot, but the fundamental difference is that digital/online is one-to-one (one ad, one user, can be personalised) and outdoor is one to many.
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
I did some work as a consultant for a big outdoor publisher and this has been a problem they've been attempting to solve for a decade or more. This kind of physical, outdoor advertising has been hemorrhaging dollars to online ads for d
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Checkout TailwindUI[0] they have a bunch of surprisingly high quality blocks for building these types of pages. I use them all the time! 0: https://tailwindui.com
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
I don't think that's true, for example renewables were responsible for ~50% of the energy generated in the UK in Q1 2020[0], and Germany claims it's ~40%[1] and Sweden claims it's ~55%[2]. These aren't perfect numbe
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Immutability is a very powerful idea when record keeping and dealing with transactions. I know of at least one major bank whose ledgers are written Haskell.
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
My knowledge is from consulting for fashion companies, so am not sure where to point you I'm afraid! Most fashion retailers work with contract factories. They design a garment (or line of garments) and then put out a tender to a set of
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
I did some strategy work for a very large UK fashion retailer who's at the complete opposite end of the "don't chase fashion" market. Everyone in that industry is trying to emulate Uniqlo's margins and unit economic
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
In a previous life I worked in ad-tech, and I don't think it's as black and white as the OP makes it out to be. I think that's actually a Bad Thing™️ as this industry needs to profoundly change or die. This isn't a new,
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Wasn't a board member, it was a pension fund who held stock in the bank.
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
I was tangentially involved as a consultant when a major bank bought a few billion USD in GCP services. Others have mentioned whole 50 person deal teams from both sides, multi year processes, all of Google’s most senior execs pressing the f
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
FWIW this is also a relaitvley common practice for administrators when dealing with bankrupt companies. Donating goods they can't sell is often cheaper than storing them or paying for them to be disposed of!
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Had limited experience of this while doing strategy work for a large UK fasion retailer. A significant proportion of items from a new range had been returned as faulty. When they investigated they realised a new factory they were using for
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
I really like the idea that the library doesn't try to do automatic layout, and you need to specify a nodes X/Y coords. There are a few similar libraries where their layout algorithm is super frustarting and its implementation&#x2
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Most orgs at that scale build their own tooling to make working with monorepos more ergonomic, in my experience. They're based on git (or other DVCS tools like Mercurial) but they allow you to easily do things like partial clones and c
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
The benefits of monorepos are (IME) all in people and organisation scale. For example, I've found it orders of magnitude easier to align tooling, quality, release and standards on a monorepo with 100's of 1000's of engineers
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's really interesting to see a new generation of vertical specific, large scale CMSs emerge (like from publishing with Chorus from Vox[0] or Arc from the Washington Post[1]). My problem with 'Enterprise
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
£1,000+ is pretty standard for Lead/Principal level engineers, in my experience, especially in financial services where it's often even higher than that.
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
Pretty saturated as well, lots of FE folks looking for contracts at the moment. Day rates of £400-1000 a day for FE devs were common before COVID, now I’d expect ~20% less than that but YMMV. Remote and visiting occasional is getting a lot
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by Joe8Bit 6y ago
The contract market in London is in a difficult place at the moment. IR35 has generally made buyers weary (in a way they weren't before) as well as limited the type of work contractors are given; budgets have also been very tightly squ
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by Joe8Bit 7y ago
Definitely in demand! For example, there's a bunch of really interesting commercial work happening building or working on compiler toolchains for WebAssembly.
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by Joe8Bit 7y ago
I did some strategy work for a global retailer a few years ago and this kept coming up, they even have a policy that SaaS tools they acquire "can't be hosted in AWS". Their reasoning seemed a bit paranoid, but it wasn't

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