eastbayjake

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by eastbayjake 4y ago
If you have 3 products and <100 active orders (e.g., need to be fulfilled / tracked at any given time) then you're in a nice spot for Vendure as an eCommerce backend
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by eastbayjake 4y ago
Depending on your needs, NextJS Commerce (Vercel) storefront + Vendure backend is a full-stack JavaScript fully-OSS option for this. It's basically ready-to-go if you have a B2C/Retail "sneaker store" type use case selli
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Have you tried Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)? It's best done with some professional oversight from a trained therapist to start -- especially because some issues may need pharmacological interventions -- but there are app-based op
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Next stop: JavaScript clone of Civilization 2...
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
There are lots of digital roles available in "Search Jobs": https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs?interest=Digita... Software Engineer may be a better fit, you'll need to select your preferred reg
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
I wouldn't characterize great consultants as "not worrying" about politics or history -- a large part of the job is change management, not just finding the "right" answer but helping ensure it is actually acted on a
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No More Working for Jerks(nytimes.com)
2 points by eastbayjake 5y ago|0 comments
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Contracting != Consulting. There are roles at both big firms (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture) that deal with a broad set of technology issues across strategy and implementation, as well as smaller boutique shops focused on specific tech
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Interested in consulting? It gets knocked a lot on here as a profession, but you're constantly building on your technical core strengths to learn something new (business domains like agriculture or manufacturing, functions like digital
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Very cool! What stack did you use?
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
And at McKinsey we're hiring! Lots of mentorship for early-career engineers, support and encouragement to try on lots of hats, and your work is 99% code not PowerPoint pages :) https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/sear
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Thanks Dan - our engineers are consultants as well, so there is a similar interview process for expert hires. We do have an additional technical exercise that varies based on your role. We typically prefer pair programming over whiteboardin
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
McKinsey & Company | Tech Leads and Architects | NYC, Denver, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Charlotte, Los Angeles, San Francisco | Full Time / Onsite | Visa McKinsey Digital brings together the best of our firm's capabilities to help
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
The Matter Compliance site is still available, it has just moved: https://matter.mckinsey.com/
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Tom - buy you a drink to talk about e-commerce tech? Contact info in bio if interested
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
It wouldn't be Hacker News if someone didn't immediately point you to @patio11's authoritative post about why developers should indeed imagine such high rates: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23&#x
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
When I play the tech lead role, I try to view my job as the business/PO's "counselor in the art of the possible." Two things that help in estimation: 1. Help your development team make explicit the assumptions in their e
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Yes, you hit the plateau of that curve pretty quickly. You can't just be an individual contributor and justify 3% raises every year for 30 years, when you hit that plateau on raw skill you need to start finding ways to player-coach the
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
Check out this E-Commerce Masterplan podcast with Nate Lind from April, pretty insightful about what to expect and where you might try engaging some expert help: https://ecommercemasterplan.com/sell-your-ecommerce-business..
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
I thought it was significantly more expensive to bury high-voltage transmission lines because the current corrodes the insulation needed to bury the lines, so you have to dig up and replace every 20-30 years. I was actually quite surprised
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
This was an interesting thought experiment, but required some mental gymnastics to go along with the premise that the town should be entirely self-sufficient. (Especially trying to grow all of your community's food in West Texas!) But
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
McKinsey & Company | Tech Leads and Architects | NYC, Denver, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Charlotte, Los Angeles, San Francisco | Full Time / Onsite | Visa McKinsey Digital brings together the best of our firm's capabilities to help
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
> Voter registration - Don't register to vote if you aren't in a swing state With all due respect: this is quite silly. There are many issues in American democracy besides the election of federal officials, and your vote is imp
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
UX nit: would have preferred question-by-question feedback on right answer and overall score, quite a lot to get through 25 questions before you get any reward for your effort :)
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How Apple Stays on the Good Side of Chinese Authorities(nytimes.com)
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
... but is taking LSD before a board meeting securities fraud ?
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by eastbayjake 5y ago
The Egyptian legal system is not known for its fairness... the World Justice Project ranks it 125 of 128 surveyed countries, in last place out of 8 countries in the Middle East[1] Similarly (and tragically) the Syrian government is not know
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Hadn't quite internalized that this thing is a Midtown NYC block wide and 5 blocks (1.5 avenues in Hells Kitchen) long
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
I was an outer-circle member of the community of people who did the Google Reader shutdown protest in DC in 2011: https://dcist.com/story/11/10/26/click-click-google-reader-p... It really did create a co
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Another B2B tip: most people are powerless to influence a purchasing decision. At an SMB (<100 employees) your email may get forwarded to the right decision-maker if it could really help the team, but beyond that size (especially as you

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