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Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

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Re: Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

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Post by kodah »

cde-v wrote: post #482
kodah wrote: post #296

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Why are you even here? It sounds like you have contempt for almost everyone here. This place was made for entrepreneurs and hackers, hence it focuses on curiosity. You seem to have none of that.

I have contempt for the shortsighted fools that are deluded enough to fuck over everyone and themselves for a .000000000001% chance of making it big. Go play the lottery loser.

That's such a vague statement that you might as well have said nothing. How does "fuck over everyone else" jive with your hate on languages like Rust and Elixir? How does that jive with startups, many of the people who have worked in startups made a killing over time, but there's certainly plenty of people who got pennies.

Anyway, I'd encourage you to step back and examine your rage. It seems misplaced.

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Post by pbreit »

spaceguillotine wrote: post #407
pbreit wrote: post #319

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Also the same CEO who has built a $75b company.

easier to do when you have terrible ethics

Tobi is one of the highest ethic persons in the industry. Can you point to any examples that would suggest otherwise?

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Post by finikytou »

amrocha wrote: post #511
darth_avocado wrote: post #505

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Not quite. In this market, you can crush it and still not get the job. One thing I can say for sure, I performed way better than was required for the position. Anyway, ended up somewhere way better, so worked out in the end.

Sounds like you didn't meet their bar. I'm happy you're somewhere you like, and interviews are somewhat arbitrary so you're not gonna pass them all. It still doesn't reflect well on you to take that stance though.

LOL. WHAT BAR? the bar where a corporate suit in polos can judge your life story and compare it to his where he did not just travel to all those exotic destinations for fun but to understand the culture of the people living in bali, mexico, europe? this is an ecommerce platform. hell you can do it in php on a 1999 laptop. nothing fancy here man they not sending space shuttles to mars

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Post by amrocha »

finikytou wrote: post #523
amrocha wrote: post #511

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Sounds like you didn't meet their bar. I'm happy you're somewhere you like, and interviews are somewhat arbitrary so you're not gonna pass them all. It still doesn't reflect well on you to take that stance though.

LOL. WHAT BAR? the bar where a corporate suit in polos can judge your life story and compare it to his where he did not just travel to all those exotic destinations for fun but to understand the culture of the people living in bali, mexico, europe? this is an ecommerce platform. hell you can do it in php on a 1999 laptop. nothing fancy here man they not sending space shuttles to mars

The engineers are the ones setting the bar, the life story is to avoid assholes. Clearly he got past that, so congrats on not being an asshole, but the engineers weren't impressed enough.

There's a reason Shopify on your resume opens a lot of doors. They don't compromise on engineering.

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Post by medellin »

throwwwaway69 wrote: post #277
medellin wrote: post #210

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The letter seems to have two audiences. Investors and employees. It’s easy to criticize this stuff but i have yet to see HN provide any valid feedback in these threads outside of criticizing past decisions of the CEO.

Here’s valid feedback: don’t use ridiculous language (team change), treat us like adults. We know what this is. Don’t turn a message about layoffs into a marketing puff piece about Shopify’s mission to save kittens and make rainbows. Own up to literally any amount of accountability, and be real as for the reasons this is happening (we hired these people knowing the risk we may need to lay them off - we were wrong and…

Honest question. What good does that do? It’s a company they aren’t here to make you feel better.

They are treating you like an adult by giving you a nice severance package. I don’t understand the need for people to have companies admit they were wrong.

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Post by hotpotamus »

osigurdson wrote: post #489
hotpotamus wrote: post #183

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In context, I understand that you mean let go from jobs, but it doesn't seem like we have much trouble letting people go from society either.

What does it mean to let people go from society?

As an example, I'd look at the individual who was strangled to death on the New York subway on Monday.

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Post by dfjkdksjds789 »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #424
dfjkdksjds789 wrote: post #417

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Do you feel there is much demand in those areas? I'm interested in more theoretical things but have doubts that many jobs would be available or for them to be valued even though its more difficult

Definitely a tradeoff: much fewer companies, but the ones that are left are higher quality if they are seeking out that sort of thing. It really depends on what you're looking for. I settled into a role of research software engineer, where I do both applied research and development, applying a lot of compiler-ish stuff to different domains within cybersecurity, such as building out control flow graphs from binaries,…

I'd love to have some more discussion especially on what areas within cybersecurity may have good demand :) Although I can't find the email in your profile or github!

Those parts you mentioned like the static analysis or control flow graphs sounds cool

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Post by jpmoral »

deltree7 wrote: post #504
jpmoral wrote: post #486

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> The CEOs / Executives are literally appointed by the board who in turn are voted in by shareholders. It is their job to increase the share price. This is a meme that needs to die. > The world is better of with efficient capital deployment. Even if this were true, rising share prices don't necessarily indicate efficient deployment. Chasing short-term share price increases often incentivises behaviour detrimental to…

Shopify, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon all have long term goals. Meta/Google/Amazon/Microsoft are literally investing R&D $ that will pay off 10+ years later. Yet they all have laid off people. Just because you laid of people doesn't mean they aren't thinking long term. Really how can reddit/HN and social media be so blind about this when they have data screaming at them?

> Just because you laid of people doesn't mean they aren't thinking long term. That's not what I said at all. My point was that a rising share price and actions taken to influence that do not necessarily indicate that capital has been efficiently deployed.

> Really how can reddit/HN and social media be so blind about this when they have data screaming at them?

Maybe don't start with the assumption that everyone else is an idiot.

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Post by dang »

aprdm wrote: post #475
annexrichmond wrote: post #472

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So it wasn't the questions themselves, but when you start asking about why you moved from this city to that, or why did you choose this school, etc. Maybe it's because your SO got a job there, or some other personal reason. I get that it's totally an innocent intent, but there are much better ways to assess a candidate's soft skills, that is strictly related to their professional experience.

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Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

(The two options that work here are to post something thoughtful and substantive, or not to post.)

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Post by aprdm »

dang wrote: post #529
aprdm wrote: post #475

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Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. (The two options that work here are to post something thoughtful and substantive, or not to post.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

fair enough, apologies!
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