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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by dillondoyle »

Dave3of5 wrote: post #72
dillondoyle wrote: post #15

Check out your console some easter eggs. Pretty cool!!! Also that is a ton of data polled like every second. 68 deep array of objects. impressive would be cool to read about their backend

It's funny how it links to their jobs. I've applied to companies like this in the past the likelihood of you even receiving a reply is close to zero.

Oh that's a bummer. A bunch of companies do it.

I always like to check out cool things like this try to learn something / see what they did!

Makes me feel very Hackers I'm going to hack the planet as I copy paste view source. But hey, that's how Mr Robot learned ;)

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by moneywoes »

jesterson wrote: post #65
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.

Wait until you try it. As someone who is on merchant side related to Shopify, SHOP is greatly overvalued

What are your complaints?

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by moneywoes »

postedthis wrote: post #80

As Retailer on Shopify I want to say: It bugs me the Shopify engineering team are spending their time making gimmicks like this rather than improving their platform. (Which is lacking features, buggy and requires you to install about 15 different addons just to function…

Which Addons

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by joshspankit »

Dave3of5 wrote: post #72
dillondoyle wrote: post #15

Check out your console some easter eggs. Pretty cool!!! Also that is a ton of data polled like every second. 68 deep array of objects. impressive would be cool to read about their backend

It's funny how it links to their jobs. I've applied to companies like this in the past the likelihood of you even receiving a reply is close to zero.

Such a strange trend. On the surface it feels like “we’re so interested in your curiosity that we want to offer you a job”, but in reality it’s more like a very subtle marketing campaign designed to boost brand awareness.

So curious how the internal conversations go when these are proposed, and why they are all so similar.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by dzonga »

postedthis wrote: post #80

As Retailer on Shopify I want to say: It bugs me the Shopify engineering team are spending their time making gimmicks like this rather than improving their platform. (Which is lacking features, buggy and requires you to install about 15 different addons just to function…

interested in hearing which addons are required to get basic functionality ?

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by 1MachineElf »

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #107
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.

Brazil is not the US, but it is part of (South) America.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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Post by jesterson »

littleweep wrote: post #87
jesterson wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you try it. As someone who is on merchant side related to Shopify, SHOP is greatly overvalued

Buy put options and show us how right you are?

Reality of modern market leaves very little correlation between product quality and stock price.

So a product - it is crap, although stock price will most likely go up.

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