eastbayjake

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by eastbayjake 4y ago
9000 jobs at one company is quite small compared to the overall industry and compared to the global shortfall in tech jobs. In Germany alone there's a 780k tech worker shortage over the next 3 years[1]. It ebbs and flows in particula
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Asking "how can I be helpful?" is a huge unlock: almost everyone has too much to do and not enough time, and thus almost everyone will welcome help from someone else. (And if the way you're "poking your nose in other dep
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
The sort of argument-by-anecdote that makes Hacker News such an interesting, informative, civilized forum to read these days - thanks for your contribution
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Odd that you chose to pick on McKinsey, which has actually published quite a bit about AI/ML risk management and specifically about bias in training data: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intel
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Friendly amendment: your McKinsey link is broken, but a quick google of the phrase brings back this full URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc...
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
You're describing a set of problems that are very narrowly about Enterprise IT and the React ecosystem, not about "coding" writ large. If you want to build things instead of integrating SaaS, go work for a cashflow-constraine
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
> Interested in exactly when it becomes impractical A couple examples where the Stripe model and scale of tokenization breaks down today: - You're an airline and you need to have a digital wallet that stores payment details so you c
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
This is a Hall-of-Fame Hacker News comment! A concise, insightful, entertaining explanation of something that has unexpected layers of nuance - and pound-for-pound one of the best descriptions of faceted search I've seen anywhere (and
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
It's counterintuitively a great time to start a business! Lots of poorly-managed startups are going to fold, which increases talent availability and decreases competition. Having a startup that has found product-market fit and is ready
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
FWIW the defensive driving guidance in that scenario is to stay in your lane and brake -- this is most commonly encountered when you see a deer in the roadway, you will almost always do more damage to your passengers, other motorists, and y
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
If you're building a marketplace, your SaaS offerings are more limited because the functionality diverges from B2C Retail... as you've probably (re)discovered, content moderation and approval for catalog information from your thir
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
McKinsey does, in fact, build software with clients: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/how-w...
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
+1 - I lend my copy to new managers, it's been universally praised for helping people think about how they add value as they move from a 100% Individual Contributor role into helping others stay unblocked and productive
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
> My partner went to Makersquare (since bought & rebranded Hack Reactor) Which in 2018 was bought and integrated into Galvanize!
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Are Spies More Trouble Than They're Worth? (2019)(newyorker.com)
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
And can't recommend enough Legacy of Ashes itself for people who are interested in the CIA, 20th century US history, and modern statecraft. If you don't have time for a 20-hour read, Adam Gopnik's New Yorker piece "A
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
The category of product you're looking for is a Product Information Management (PIM) system in many eCommerce architectures. It's a core component of big eCommerce platforms like Salesforce and SAP, but there are also "compos
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Love open source projects in the eCommerce domain, especially ones that are JavaScript instead of PHP! Two pieces of feedback: - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impre
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
> The post gained a number of replies and the sentiment that “web3 is trash” is about as commmon today as “McKinsey is trash.” Those are both low-value, ad hominem attacks that don't substantively engage with content, and they are b
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
I'm surprised a HN community member with your level of contributions would make this sort of comment. From the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comm
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Is it open source? (If yes - would love a link!)
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
They appear to be using the Backbone.js/Marionette framework, which is super hardcore but also dates when this site was probably developed (I can't remember the last time I saw Backbone in the wild!) https://builtwith.c
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Tangential but what are your favorite e-commerce meme accounts?
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
It has meant no test drives in practice. I was shocked when I tried to test drive a Ford Mach-E that no dealership within a 100 mile radius had any inventory on hand -- when I called individual dealerships to ask, they said not only was the
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
> I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse Metaverse demos have felt super underwhelming compared to e.g. playing Grand Theft Auto 5 for a few hours
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
As someone who does a lot of e-commerce interviews, that section was quite odd. I'm not sure whether these are questions intended for a role at a scrappy startup, a technical interview in an at-scale operation, a marketing role where y
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Not true for McKinsey. Not only are we hiring entry-level engineers, we are (1) also recruiting from several coding bootcamps and (2) very proud of the engineering path we've created to help early-career developers rapidly build a worl
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
This was a really great article and case study. The problems (and eventual solutions) will be familiar and unsurprising to readers of The Phoenix Project : https://itrevolution.com/the-phoenix-project/
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
It's an interesting solution - could you elaborate more on the benefits, or even on the impetus to use websockets in an e-commerce project?
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
This feels like a thoughtful way to balance "Zoom fatigue" (which is very real) with the (also very real) need for human connection and interpersonal relationship building

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