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by orenmazor 13y ago
it doesn't have to be a pos! :) http://www.shopify.com/pos obviously biased, because I work at Shopify. but this is a sweet product, and it works with your online store for inventory tracking, reports, etc.
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by orenmazor 13y ago
This is so cool. Well Done!
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by orenmazor 13y ago
circleci would be wonderful Dima!
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by orenmazor 13y ago
Muskoka is right in cottage country in Ontario. huge, huge difference from an island near Edmundston.
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by orenmazor 13y ago
Why is this surprising? the CIA deals with people. the NSA deals with math. shipping a shitload people around the world costs way more than running a shitload of servers.
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by orenmazor 13y ago
I didn't make it clear in my response, and thats my fault. We actually dont use pg, mondrian, or mysql anymore. We ended up with a golang solution that we use essentially like you would with a column store. It's very fast and extr
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by orenmazor 13y ago
We started out with mondrian+mysql, but quickly had to drop mysql ("mysql is great until you want to put data into it and then get it back out again" - unattributed, to protect the guilty). Our primary work was with postgresql in
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by orenmazor 13y ago
Our first sprint on this product was following the first principles as outlined by that book. We found that the strategy works really well on paper but there are significant scaling issues on the querying side when you throw massive amounts
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by orenmazor 13y ago
I appreciate the difficulty of trying to run a business without this information being available to you. Once you start juggling the vast amount of data that needs to be stored, fetched, calculated and referenced to provide a report, it bec
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by orenmazor 13y ago
I work on the new Shopify Reports product and we would love to hear more about what kind of complex sales reports you're looking for. hit me up here, on twitter (@orenmazor), or email: oren.mazor@shopify.com
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Shopify Launches Point of Sale(shopify.com)
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by orenmazor 14y ago
what were they using to cut those wires? thats not a cat5 down there.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
the internet is a series of on/off ramps.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
It told me it doesnt want me to sign up, so I did anyway. out of spite.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
"Cannot reproduce. user error"
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by orenmazor 14y ago
what is this fantastic place?
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by orenmazor 14y ago
boat aside, I'd love to see more about the instrumentation on the bridge with those imacs…
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by orenmazor 14y ago
Interesting. you're basically sort of taking the password part out of two-factor authentication. (I know its not exactly that)
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by orenmazor 14y ago
TL;DR CS? that said, I wish twitter was around when I was in school. using twitter has really taught me how to express something very concisely.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
depends on who I'm talking to. for technical people I can tell the exact web product I'm working on. for grandparents and others, I "solve technical problems using a variety of tools. kind of like an engineer would by first drawing schemati
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I just imagined the author reading that post and smirking to themselves.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
"dont let the door hit you on the way out" - old slashdot unix nerd me.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
this is a fantastic idea. I've lived in hardware startup land for a while, and the needs are very specific there :)
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I don't think Sparrow ever really promised push… http://www.sprw.me/push.php
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I read that as Trapped
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by orenmazor 14y ago
We use ES at Wildbit. I love this tool, and I'm really glad for you guys. 6 months ago when we started using it, we'd have easily hired you guys to help us out with our use cases/jvm optimization.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I'm not surprised. if I noticed it while snickering, I'm sure they noticed it before posting and changed it back then. easier to do that than refilm.
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by orenmazor 14y ago
is that the Penny Arcade mailchimp.com password on the whiteboard at 3:10?
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I'm really interested in doing more machine learning work (my current projects, as interesting as they are, dont really require it). I've done a few weirdo projects with NLTK, tho, and its great fun. By stream hacking do you mean offloading
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by orenmazor 14y ago
I love RabbitMQ with the passion of a thousand suns right now. (I also use 0mq but only for a disposable internal queue)

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