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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... :-/
How fast is it the second time?
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
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Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
#282Story time! When Jet.com launched they had some promos going on so I wanted to check out what it was all about and ordered a bunch of stuff. I think at that point they had 2 day shipping over 25 without a membership. Their signature purple package arrives on time, in a larger than expected box. I open it, and there's a smaller Amazon box inside. I open THAT and it has all my items. I got two receipts, one from jet.co…
This reminds me of the Silicon Valley episode where the start up 'Sliceline' sells repackaged Domino's pizzas. Don't recall if they explicitly stated 'they'll make it up in volume.'
This is literally the business model of DoorDash, brought to you by the same genius investment firm who brought you Uber and WeWork.
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Maybe this is a result of what you describe but I never remember Levis or Huffy being premium brands. Before Walmart "came to our town" those brands were featured in other big-box stores.
Maybe premium is the wrong word. Levis and Huffy were never designer brands, they were the standard in quality. Like Tide Detergent, Heinz Ketchup or Coca Cola, they were brand to beat. The pattern seems to happen many brands over time that sell out or fail. You see it across markets with brands like Packard Bell, Kodak, Polaroid, Martha Stewart, Kate Spade, RCA, etc. 50 years ago if you had a Zenith or RCA TV it was…
True, but this isn't Wal Mart's fault, it's China's fault.
For instance, half a dozen Japanese electronics manufacturers tried to sell televisions, a business that the Japanese have dominated for 40 years.
Half of them threw in the towel. People buy on price; nobody was going to pay a 25% premium for a Pioneer or a JVC TV.
At the same time, Chinese companies like TCL began gobbling market share.
I'm typing this on a "Silo" TV that I bought at Fry's about five years ago. When I bought it, I figured it would be junk, but it was so cheap I couldn't resist.
Five years later, it's still going strong.
Silo is still selling TVs (cheaply) and Pioneer is gone from the market.
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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?
It’s like companies requiring a tie. Fine. A tie is easy to put on. But if you’re requiring that all of a sudden what other rules do I have to worry about being added? I guarantee you random tech company X would see attrition if they enacted a business-casual dress-code. Same with booze.
Booze is different. Booze is a drug that makes people do silly things.
You can almost guarantee that before they brought in this rule, some guy groped a girl while drunk after drinking at the office. That's the size they're at.
There's a world of legal difference when that happens under your roof, or after work.
Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
#285I wonder if the band "Jet" sold jet.com their URL?
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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 type…
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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.
Absolutely - hard to believe that at the time Java was SO COOL that the name 'JavaScript' seemed like a really good idea.
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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…
I think the kindle books are still available if you login at the right url. They were for a bit, long enough for me to download them. It's difficult though. You're just fucked. I have like four kindles though and they work fine without an Amazon account. Never even need to turn the wifi on. Getting books on there with a USB cable is slightly annoying but not really. I don't know about any other product. I recommend avoiding all drm content for this reason. Luckily kindle books can have their drm easily removed. Not that I'd ever do that cause it's illegal. Lol.
Re: Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
#289As 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,…
I’m mostly mad your getting way more Karma than me right now.
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The marketplace is the reason I don’t use Walmart. The marketplace and commingled stock is Amazon’s biggest problem and Walmart appears to be playing catch-up rather than forging their own path. We don’t need another Amazon. I’ve been using Target, eBay, Best Buy and random sites lately. The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does.
Yeah, I have noticed that as well. Newegg is another one that went down the "Market place" approach and is why I didn't list them. I just use Micro center now. A little bit less selection, but not much and they will order almost anything for you and get it quickly.
Agreed on Newegg. I am currently dealing with two separate issues for items sold by 3rd party. Thankfully, both items were low cost so even if it ends up being a loss, it is not the end of the world, but I used to swear by Newegg. By comparison, Ebay is all third parties, but they have some way to discourage bad actors. Newegg and Amazon are a disappointment lately.
I never thought I would not say it these days, but Ebay has gotten better ( comparatively speaking; maybe others just gotten worse ).