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by xal 15y ago
37signals? :-)
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by xal 15y ago
I'll give you a Shopify account for $15 a month if you want it.
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by xal 15y ago
Tim is real. He is a hacker at heart. He does to time and body exactly the kind of stuff that we here celebrate doing to computers.
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by xal 15y ago
The point of the book is that the jobs that are likely to disappear next are at the top end of the economic spectrum rather then the bottom. Think Radiologists who will probably be replaced by software within a decade as opposed to nurses w
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by xal 15y ago
It's time that this book is being discussed more here on HN. A lot of topics show up from time to time which discuss aspects of Ford's thesis. Typically people who react in the affirmative that there is a problem are being dismissed as neo
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by xal 15y ago
We use this as data exchange format for our RPC services at Shopify. Incredibly fast, stable, easy to use.
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by xal 15y ago
I picked a guy with lots of carisma as my co-founder. I thought he would do the business side and I'd do the technology side. 3 years later I had to kick him out of the business. 6 years later I bought out his share for millions. Get a cofo
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by xal 15y ago
What is the process for employees like? Does food just show up or is there some kind of website / email that everyone gets before lunch?
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by xal 15y ago
Looks like Pagerduty is hosted on ec2? Really?
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by xal 15y ago
Read Dan Pink's "Drive" for an incredible full overview of what we know about motivation. Alfie's work is source material for Drive. You can drive deeper into this aspect later and pick up his works.
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by xal 15y ago
Read "lights in the tunnel" by Martin Ford.
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by xal 15y ago
I wrote unicorn initially. Ask me any questions about it. The article does a good job giving the outline but there is a lot more to it.
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by xal 15y ago
Potentially. We are also starting offices in many candian towns.
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by xal 15y ago
Shopify in Ottawa, ON http://www.shopify.com/careers
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by xal 15y ago
Shopify is still 100% ROR and we serve hundreds of millions of requests. You will be fine :-) It's a competitive advantage for us, we move faster then the rest of the market.
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by xal 15y ago
I would be. Is this really common? My own story is the common one of highshool dropout who dropped about because he was bored in school and this is something I hear about in many of my peers.
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by xal 15y ago
Direct link to the statsd-instrument client library: https://github.com/shopify/statsd-instrument
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by xal 15y ago
At this point it's downright comical. It seems like a significant percentage of startups these days go to market on a design that is directly copied from Shopify.com pricing page: http://www.shopify.com/signup https://drchrono.com/pricin
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by xal 15y ago
Shopify is pondering open-sourcing our internal tool called Tiller. It runs all the reporting for our considerable data warehouse efforts, yet it's lightweight and super fast to get running. Watch this space.
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by xal 15y ago
This was a conscious decision at Shopify. The prices can only be either free or $80+ . It works great.
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by xal 15y ago
Everyone who thinks this is thought provoking needs to read http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ ( free ) to really understand the magnitude of this problem.
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Entrepreneur's Checklist (blog.xero.com)
3 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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Shopify donate's 100k to acumen fund to start even more businesses(shopify.com)
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by xal 15y ago
This article is devoid of any real content. Essentially they are saying that you need to be reasonably good parents. Anyways, it happens that there is a brilliant talk by Cameron Herold at TEDx on the topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Ask HN: Do you censor your children's internet?
6 points by xal 15y ago|3 comments
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by xal 15y ago
all the batteries that we have ever build combined cannot store 10 minutes of the electricity that we currently use. We need order of magnitude breakthrough with batteries first.
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by xal 15y ago
Also realize that if you are connected over websockets all data will be transferred unencrypted even if you put log.io behind https. A much better fit for these cases is SSE which works fine over https: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/
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by xal 15y ago
We are using Jobvite for this which is way too expensive and a total pain in the ass. If you are a rails app please make it so that the job page can be edited with Liquid. Also provide an API so that we could migrate.
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by xal 15y ago
All cards on the table, we have struggled a bit under the growth. Yes, first worlds problem, I know. Shopify is a very complex product and in many cases it's our customer's first foray into the world of building a company. We want the suppo
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by xal 15y ago
Direct link to Shopify's http://smiley.shopify.com/

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