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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by untog »

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?

Unless they're hiding it well (always a possibility...) Target is that retailer for me. Of course they don't have anywhere near the selection of Amazon, but for the regular essentials I need their free two day delivery does a fantastic job.

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Post by wott »

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?

And the limitations too. If something (for example, unsigned numbers) is not provided by the JVM because it was declared useless for Java, most languages running over the JVM won't implement it either (and otherwise it would often mean resorting to a layer of more or less dirty and slow workarounds to circumvent the limitation).

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by wott »

mehrdadn wrote: post #267
zucker42 wrote: post #266

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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.

A .Net terminal "hello world" takes a good 2 or 3 seconds on my computer. Yay... :-/

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by HappyDoge »

divbzero wrote: post #227
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,…

This is disappointing to hear. When Jet was acquired, I thought a significant motivation (and justification for acquisition price) was to give Walmart access to the Jet’s tech stack. Apparently this was not the case.

Walmart has been running on Jet tech stack heavily as far as supply chain side of things is concerned.

Both the distribution centers and the technology driving them have been integrated with Walmart systems early on after acquisition and many current and future developments in that area are based around formerly Jet tech written in F#.

That's not going anywhere.

Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet

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Post by torartc »

bitexploder wrote: post #142

I now trust Walmart [jet.com] and Bestbuy more than Amazon. Walmart / Jet have made great strides in their online experience and I trust them more than Amazon now. I don't really care about the branding Jet or Walmart is fine. And for my rant/last straw with Amazon: My most recent Amazon frustration: I ordered a Ryzen processor "shipped and sold by Amazon" and got an opened and obviously installed processor. Pins wer…

I have a very hard time believing that. Walmart has always been an awful company and Jet has always been junk.

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Post by bosswipe »

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.

I would say that Scala on the JVM is comparable to F#.

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Post by darkerside »

untog wrote: post #270
abimaelmartell wrote: post #265

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> 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.

True, but that took decades of reeducation. For a language that literally had no relationship to actual Java.

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Post by HappyDoge »

bosswipe wrote: post #276
zucker42 wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would say that Scala on the JVM is comparable to F#.

Only to an untrained eye. F# is a firmly rooted in ML language family history, only making concessions where necessary due to the fact it's running on the CLR. Scala is a random walk of language design space, with different ideas either working or ending up complete trainwrecks, and the fact it's missing this clean ML core makes it a painful language to pick up coming in from F# (or in fact most other statically typed FP languages).

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Post by dialamac »

hiram112 wrote: post #244
mnm1 wrote: post #204

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Amazon's current solution also includes shutting down your account, even if it's prime, and telling you to fuck off because you returned too many of its fake or garbage products.

So what happens when you've basically stored your digital life on Amazon's accounts, many times with purchases from their own site? I've got tons of music - mp3 songs and albums, hundreds of both purchased Kindle books and uploaded personal ones, Audible audio books, years worth of pictures that was part of some hardware deal, etc? Its even worse than the problem of Google just shutting down your account since most o…

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