eastbayjake

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by eastbayjake 6y ago
That is at the higher-end of revenue and scale! I think you'd typically see Shopify as the integrated solution for <$5-10M companies, big enterprise solutions (Adobe, SAP, Oracle) for $100M+ scale, and solutions like Fabric trying t
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A Year of the Pandemic, by the Numbers(nytimes.com)
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Pandemic pastime: Filling and abandoning e-commerce shopping carts(cnbc.com)
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
If only someone would build a Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine where someone could look for "Modern Art" references in the text: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/02
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Check out Magnolia CMS: https://github.com/magnolia-cms
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McKinsey & Company | Software Engineers | Denver, NYC, SF, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto | Full-time McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s tech and analytics capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to t
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Toshiba launches microservices-based e-commerce platform(commerce.toshiba.com)
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An online sales boom is killing supermarket profits(economist.com)
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
To clarify: not a new CEO (current one has been in place since April 2019) but rather an activist shareholder who bought a large stake and got seats on the board as a result, and that guy has the e-commerce turnaround story
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
This was funny in an Andy Kaufman-esqe way where I'm not quite sure where the joke ends and insanity (mine or theirs) begins - can't believe they actually made a browser extension, did sign up for the Bad Unicorn newsletter tho
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
MBB is typically hiring because you already have communication strengths . Half the interview is technical, the other half is about structured communication and synthesizing "so whats" for a CIO-level audience. I'd actually
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
This is a really bad take. This country has never accepted calls for violent overthrow of our democratic system as "freedom of expression", and that's a view that's been upheld by all three branches of government across
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
There is a way to give this feedback that is positive, collaborative, and highlights what a great team player you are -- the sort of thing that gets people promotions. But YMMV!
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Hoping this is hyperbole, but if your reviews or retrospectives are actually four hours long, you should politely point out that these do not need to be more than an hour (and many mature scrum teams do both in an hour total)
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
So glad Matt Levine is back! I missed the newsletter a lot
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It's a nice opportunity to go for a quick walk!
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Started with the original Tropico when it first came out, just downloaded Tropico 4 to play over the holidays based on some feedback that 4 had less complex and more fun gameplay than 6. Any perspective on which is the best in the series?
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
The one I came to comment was an obvious bad actor on Indiegogo who had done multiple Raspberry Pi electronics kits... not clear if the person was a fraudster or just very bad at actually finishing projects, but much weeping and gnashing of
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
An updated perspective on how to think about "10x talent" in IT: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/its-time-to-reset-the-it...
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> Families of people with dementia land in different places on this issue, but to her, it’s beyond question that Jo is not here anymore; most everything that made him Jo has been stolen. This was very sad, but it's a good articulati
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
Super cool! Two questions: (1) Do you have your list of eligible business categories? Have seen several use cases in logistics where Stripe was ruled out automatically because of restrictions on drop shippers and freight forwarders. (2) Loo
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Ring has been a fun! One of my holiday todo's is to finally sit down and program the IFTTT integration for my Amazon plugs to turn my garden lights on when my Ring Doorbell detects motion. If you have someone you'd like to get int
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
New Orleans and Denver - both fun cities with a much lower cost of living and surprisingly vibrant tech/startup communities
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I was today years old when I found out Arecibo is not part of the Deep Space Network! Sad for the impact to scientific research, but relieved it shouldn't jeopardize e.g., maintaining Voyager contact
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In my (public school) experience, the Anti-Federalist Papers were taught only as an excerpted footnote while giving more airtime to the contents of the Federalist Papers. Another one of those "winners write history" effects - the
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
This got immediately stuck in my head as soon as I started dropping tiles onto the grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQY3zGEbQU&t=123s
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> As is common when HN discusses legal matters I see a lot of people blaming the judges for not understanding tech, but the problem here isn't really the judges so much as the law itself. Or to state it more plainly: the problem is
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by eastbayjake 6y ago
It was my understanding that the user had installed a version of the Electrum wallet that was not from the official source at electrum.org. (But agree - it was really difficult to identify the core issue from this string of GitHub comments.
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One of the big unspoken reasons these questions stick around: they cause little imposter syndrome anxiety for the senior engineers who need to conduct the interview. You ask a candidate to code a toy problem, and the candidate either knows
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> I would expect somewhat of a swing back away from remote work when we get a vaccine. I think a lot of people will move back to where offices are located, but I'm wondering if we'll see an increase in people who fly in for a f

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