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Shopify stores are selling $600k a minute right now(datastories.shopify.com)
10 points by xal 8y ago|0 comments
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by xal 8y ago
After installing it, head to https://purecycles.com/products/urban-commuter-bike to see the best feature. Placing 3D models in your house via ARKit right from Safari. Writeup on this Shopify rollout: https:/&#x2F
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by xal 8y ago
Shopify across Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Waterloo. https://www.shopify.com/careers Bonus, you get to work on something that's actually important for the economic future instead of making people click on ads that t
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AR shopping gets simpler with AR Quick Look (Safari iOS 12)(medium.com)
1 points by xal 8y ago|0 comments
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by xal 10y ago
One aspect of chess that's really interesting is UCI which stands for univeral chess interface. It's a simple protocol that all engines "speak" and almost all pieces of chess software support. Chess players tend to colle
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by xal 10y ago
Exactly the same experience for me. I remember we stayed inside for weeks.
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by xal 10y ago
Of course we use both. One provides depth, the other breadth.
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by xal 10y ago
This wasn't unexpected outside of the extend of the bounties. What you have to realize is how important Security is to Shopify. We are a trust based business to an extreme extend. We host the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of oth
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by xal 10y ago
> Total revenue in the third quarter was $99.6 million https://press.shopify.com/releases/shopify-announces-third-q...
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by xal 10y ago
it does. All Shopify sales channels are included. Web, Pos, Native Apps SDK users, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Houzz, etc
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by xal 10y ago
higher, but not much much higher. A lot of small things combine into something quite big!
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by xal 10y ago
We are a public company, no guessing required. Here is the relevant press release and quote: > Gross Merchandise Volume (“GMV”) for the third quarter was $3.8 billion, an increase of 100% over the third quarter of 2015. GMV processed th
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by xal 10y ago
This is the production engineering pod right now: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/802160212249604096
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by xal 10y ago
Planet Money did a great episode on Argentina, which decided at some point to default on its debt. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/11/470136949/episo...
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by xal 10y ago
The driving hours usually come out of the participants free time instead of out of the work force. The traffic jam will increase gasoline consumption. You are right though, it isn't a good example. Here is a better one: Someone getting
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Prisma. The AI Camera (iOS)(prisma-ai.com)
5 points by xal 10y ago|0 comments
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by xal 10y ago
Building companies is 90% luck (timing, competition, demand, macro trends, technology penetration, also health & passion of the team). So... I doubt it.
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by xal 10y ago
I developed an early (technical) following because I was one of the people behind Ruby on Rails. That lead to the first few customers because technical people are often asked for recommendations for software. Keep in mind this was in 2006,
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by xal 10y ago
Right, that's the key question. In my case, it just felt that way one day. Running a Public company looks like a daunting task before you are ready, and it doesn't look like a big deal after you are ready. Building a company is a
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by xal 10y ago
Exactly as you said. I build a online store to sell Snowboards back in 2004. The business worked really well but the software was clearly even better. The snowboards ended up financing building Shopify. The first checkin into the Shopify g
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by xal 10y ago
> "Everyone's being told, 'Don't go public,'" Ries said. In my experience, If there is consensus around something, it's often a great idea to do the opposite. I decided to take my company public last ye
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Shopify gave it's employees $1m to spend on Shopify stores(shopify.com)
1 points by xal 11y ago|0 comments
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by xal 11y ago
Shopify is build through and through for the developer ecosystem. We very intentionally leave lots of profitable space in the ecosystem so that others can build companies on top of our platform. We also sweat over every API addition, often
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by xal 11y ago
Yea 2008 to 2010ish. It would be silly to not invest into our growth right now given the opportunity at hand. We liked being profitable very much though and promised to be back at some point :-)
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by xal 11y ago
Yes, it's morning to evening every second booked during the roadshow. You can get it done in a single (7 day) week if you really want to take that risk.
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by xal 12y ago
You need to read this: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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by xal 12y ago
I've actually skated to work for years in Ottawa. Shopify always had it's offices close to the downtown end of the canal :-)
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by xal 12y ago
Yes, we hide the apprenticeship approach behind internships for cultural compatibility.
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by xal 12y ago
Or better yet, become someone's Jürgen.
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by xal 12y ago
I totally missed the point because I didn't make it about race?

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