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by sumanthvepa 11y ago
It's a term of the trade in the retailing (and by extension e-commerce) industry. It refers to the value of the goods sold. If a retailer sells a widget for $100 at 50% margin, then the GMV is $100 and revenue to the retailer is $50.
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by sumanthvepa 11y ago
That was exactly my thought. The pattern isn't new at all. C++ calls it RAII.
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by sumanthvepa 11y ago
I've unfortunately been in the position of your boss in the past. In some of my early product management/project management roles, I would wave my hands write a few emails, one-pagers and expect the developers and designers would
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by sumanthvepa 12y ago
Absolutely fascinating. I've been crimping my own RJ45s for a while now, surprised that I'm not quite getting the speed I'd hoped for with CAT6. Lesson learned. Thanks!
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by sumanthvepa 12y ago
If you are burned out, it may very well be that you will miss that 'hard deadline'. However, very few deadlines in life are really 'hard' (as in you will lose your life if you don't meet the deadline.) Talk to the f
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by sumanthvepa 12y ago
Worked at Morgan Stanley's fixed income desk many years ago as my first job after grad school, programming A+. It was a decidedly acquired taste. The language and style were utterly alien to anyone coming from a background in C (and at
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by sumanthvepa 12y ago
Welcome home to India! I'm another Cornell alum here who did the same. You're certainly not alone. I moved to the US after my undergrad and studied and worked there before returning home to eventually become an entrepreneur. One o
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by sumanthvepa 13y ago
One approach I've seen at Microsoft is to have Product Management, Engineering and QA report to the General Manager. It seemed like a very good solution to empowering QA. I'm guessing that structure evolved because of the need to
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by sumanthvepa 14y ago
Although there may be altruistic or political reasons for preferring MIT/BSD/Apache style licenses over the GPL, I believe that the choice of license must be closely related to the type of project you are creating. If the project is a libra