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heh, I used to work on the data team at Shopify. I built something similar to search internal dbs for secret santa gifts based on some weird criteria. Scraping might have a large m…

> Because of this, there’s more deviation from what was planned and designed to what was shipped and there’s less alignment across teams, so it’s harder to coordinate feature devel…

I mean, imagine what housing in Toronto would cost if they didn't build those 100K+ condos? Pricing is composed of supply and demand, and the article is saying that holding demand …

I've never heard of that before. > find the best possible match and skip all of the technical interviewing theatrics I assume that you mean best person within your network... would…

poe.com has a pretty broad collection of LLMs, and for the most part is free.

Lol, no. 1. That is a very deterministic statement 2. This is a part of the process, not the entire process. There are still technical elements tested during the interview. 3. The …

Haven't read the report, but accounting tricks like deferring revenue to the next period and writing down receivables would affect revenue/earnings.

Most people (on this website) likely have lived in dorms at school, which are not too different than a boarding house.

In addition to being a highly volatile source of revenue to the government, you would have to give tax breaks for unrealized capital losses out of fairness; which would introduce a…

I'm on a data team of 10, and after about 6 months of onboarding we have permissions to push directly to main pending passing tests. We generally do this for small changes, or chan…

I can't think of any potential downsides to this /s

Maybe not prospective employees, but competing recruiters would definitely remind candidates with multiple offers about the incident.

Looking at their past 10-k, cost of revenue is ~$1.8B which includes infra costs. As these are self hosted, infra costs are largely going to be fixed; with a smaller component scal…

For non-accredited investors, getting a job at Twitter would likely be the best way to get a meaningful position.

Lol, best of luck.

But then this has the impact of reenforcing model predictions (unless controlled for). This lead won't convert based on the model, so I won't spend time with them or give them any …

Fast didn't make it to market. I would see two ways that Bolt would be a success: 1. Grow with Big Commerce 2. We see a hard push to headless commerce, and Bolt becomes the "Shopif…