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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by boringg »

ksec wrote: post #78
mherdeg wrote: post #31

Gosh I've really enjoyed using the Shop Pay checkout experience on an increasingly large number of ecommerce sites this past few months. It didn't really click until recently that this was all Shopify backed! Makes me think it might not be too late to figure out a sensible valuation for NYSE:SHOP and invest.

Every time I checked I thought they were over valued. $200B! But P/E is only 60, and they are still growing. This makes Tobi net worth higher than Jack Dorsey. Then I looked at revenue was only ~4 billion. Something doesn't add up. Turns out they have ~$3B from Gain on Sale of Security.

They also have investments in a bunch of tech companies and are moving into a lot of different markets. Wallstreet likes to look at the GMV which is second only to Amazon for gross merchandise volume sold on a platform.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by spodek »

Today is also Buy Nothing Day for those with different values.

Our mainstream culture generally says growing the GDP helps everyone, that "a rising tide lifts all boats." Some of us see the evidence pointing the other way and avoiding needless shopping helping people more.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by boringg »

motoxpro wrote: post #100
nathanvanfleet wrote: post #52

I'll never respect Shopify. I gave them my CV with decent experience and the recruiter never even spoke to me on the phone. They told me that I would need more of a social media presence or maybe open-source work. It was completely baffling but I'm glad I never encountered another company like them.

I mean, sounds like they didn't think you were good enough for the job and gave you some nice tips on how to shortcut not having the required experience.

I'd agree the fact that they even gave you any feedback is a benefit - things that can improve your candidacy. Outside of knowing anything about your job application/experience - most places I know just don't get back to you and leave you wondering if you are still in the running or not.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by kashyapc »

There's a famous Pieter Bruegel painting from 1562 called "The Triumph of Death" that someone contrasted with a "typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday" here[1].

It might take a few seconds to tell apart the painting from the Black Friday store. ;-)

        • • •
The original painting[2] has a gem[3] in the corner of it (that's not visible in[1]): where death is wreaking havoc, and a pair of lovers, oblivious to it, are playing guitar and singing. In that frame, you'll see death also playing guitar right behind them, in a neat visual rhyme, implying that their fate is sealed too.

[1] https://www.devblog.no/sites/devblog.no/files/styles/800px_w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death

[3] You have to zoom into the lower right corner to see it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death#/media/Fi...

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by ytdytvhxgydvhh »

kashyapc wrote: post #106

There's a famous Pieter Bruegel painting from 1562 called "The Triumph of Death" that someone contrasted with a "typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday" here[1]. It might take a few seconds to tell apart the painting from the Black Friday store. ;-) • • • The original painting[2] has a gem[3] in the corner of it (that's not visible in[1]): where death is wreaking havoc, and a pair of lovers, oblivious…

Funny that the “typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday” is in a Brazilian store. Not sure if it’s a reasonable approximation of US stores on Black Friday or not.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by senecaso »

kimsant wrote: post #68
senecaso wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were surprised by this as well, but since one didn't exist, we started to create one! https://vendazzo.com/ We still have a long ways to go, but you can search for items and filter based on things like category and distance (if you are trying to shop locally). We're doing things on a very tight budget at the moment, so sometimes the site goes down, but we're working on it :) If you have any feedback, we would love…

Interesting! Could you explain how did you manage to find sites and how can you know where are they based?

Right now, we gather location data from the pages themselves. Some shops (not many) include an address. The process is very error-prone though, so our accuracy in this area is likely not where we want it to be. We are working on other ways to improve that.
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