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Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by jbay808 »

thrower123 wrote: post #66
snarf21 wrote: post #21

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I don't understand why Walmart doesn't have a customer supplied delivery program. Using the app, you would sign in when you enter the store. It would inform you of any deliveries within X miles of your home. It tells you how much you would be paid in store credit to do those deliveries. So you start shopping with say $33.50 already in your pocket. Then you just drop off a couple of bags at a few houses on your way ho…

The idea of random Walmart people coming to my house is terrifying.

Unlike those random DoorDash people, who are totally picked from a different crop than the Walmart people?

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Post by ryanianian »

dropofwill wrote: post #221
mattmanser wrote: post #166

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Silly thing to pick on. I like a drink with co-workers, but totally understandable not to at work, especially as a lot of their workers definitely couldn't because it'd be dangerous. Or do you think it should be one rule for the richly paid programmers, and another for the low paid warehouse workers?

I’ve read that it’s common in Germany to drink a liter of beer or so at work, even in manufacturing. Besides the drinking thing one of my friends said they were trying to ban swearing as well?

Ya. Walmart is a very “middle American values” company. Fine, but just unpleasant if you’re not used to it.

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Post by gonehome »

coldpie wrote: post #176
v77 wrote: post #155

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This should be Walmart's lane: no third-party sellers, just the best place to buy branded, verified products.

There has to be _someone_ who wants to be the high-quality seller. Even Newegg went down the eBay path. I understand it's profitable, but surely being a very successful #2 is OK too?

I think this might be Shopify's play, at least it would be what I would do if I was them.

Enable high quality sellers to have their own branded website to sell their own product directly.

Then make it easy to find the Shopify sites via some general search or directory.

You're able to slowly build up power this way without it being too obvious, and you provide an immediately valuable service to sellers that aligns incentives from the beginning.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by mehrdadn »

iLemming wrote: post #258
tombert wrote: post #224

As a former Jet employee, this makes me pretty sad. I took the job at Jet because I wanted to learn more about F#, coming from a Haskell background, and I was happy to find that my coworkers were all really smart people and the codebase, while far from perfect, was written using functional concepts, and avoided the "writing C# in F#" trap. I left Jet partly because there had been talks of absorbing Jet into Walmart,…

Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

The performance characteristics are similar are they not?

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by abimaelmartell »

iLemming wrote: post #258
tombert wrote: post #224

As a former Jet employee, this makes me pretty sad. I took the job at Jet because I wanted to learn more about F#, coming from a Haskell background, and I was happy to find that my coworkers were all really smart people and the codebase, while far from perfect, was written using functional concepts, and avoided the "writing C# in F#" trap. I left Jet partly because there had been talks of absorbing Jet into Walmart,…

Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

> Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

Maybe because it's in the name ️

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Post by zucker42 »

mehrdadn wrote: post #264
iLemming wrote: post #258

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Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

The performance characteristics are similar are they not?

In the context of the original comment, aren't the performance characteristics of .NET pretty similar to the JVM (though I have no experience with the former)? I don't see big reasons why someone who likes C# would hate Kotlin. F# is pretty different from the available JVM languages though.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by mehrdadn »

zucker42 wrote: post #266
mehrdadn wrote: post #264

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The performance characteristics are similar are they not?

In the context of the original comment, aren't the performance characteristics of .NET pretty similar to the JVM (though I have no experience with the former)? I don't see big reasons why someone who likes C# would hate Kotlin. F# is pretty different from the available JVM languages though.

The startup time of .NET is nothing like JVM's in my experience.

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Post by GiorgioG »

GiorgioG wrote: post #187
thrwaray1212 wrote: post #164

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My team still uses F# and a few others do as well

The problem for me (as a C# developer for a very long time) is that it has zero traction. If I want use a more functional programming language I'm better off learning Elixir, Clojure, Reason, Scala etc. If I'm going to invest in spending the time to really learn a programming language I want to know that there's a community that's doing reasonably well to promote it. Microsoft has done a terrible job - treating F# as…

For the folks downvoting, it's not that I don't want to use F#, but at most corps you're not going to have an easy time getting approval to use F#. Just because I want to use F#, doesn't mean the rest of the team wants to maintain it when I'm gone/unavailable/etc.

It's a terrific product with little corporate backing. C# gets more F# like everyday. I have limited time to invest in learning technology (especially the way front-end tech changes so quickly) that it's hard to justify committing to becoming proficient in F#.

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Post by untog »

abimaelmartell wrote: post #265
iLemming wrote: post #258

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Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.

> Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever. Maybe because it's in the name ️

Eh, I don't think JavaScript is really associated with Java these days.
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