anyone know how that globe is made? which library ?
Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
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#92I'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.
Very large org with no doubt limitless job applications being submitted are particularly picky with the ones they choose to interview? Colour me shocked.
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#93anyone know how that globe is made? which library ?
looks like https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl
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#94Having worked in the bowels of a major online retailers networking team during black Friday sales, I can say that a lot of the patterns you see in this UI are real. People do indeed get out of bed at ungodly hours of the morning to get two bucks knocked off a stereo.
Of all the years where I worked in ecommerce, the first year with Black Friday was the only one that was any fun. We where one the first webshop in the country to have a Black Friday campaign, mostly as an aftertought. The entire thing was just one guy in marketing, me, who hacked together a quick way to add the discounts and then our fantastic team of buyers who used to occasion to clean out old stock and mistaken p…
>It became more a quest to keep the servers from crashing.
Wizard: valient knight, I have a quest worthy of honor
You, feeling proud: I AM WORTHY OF SUCH A QUEST
Wizard: Configure a chron job to reboot this server every 24 hours. There is a memory leak that we can't solve and our customers want to buy our stuff
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
please dont swear
Is this a HN thing? I actually originally censored myself with "f'ed" but changed it before posting as I felt weird doing it.
It's a HN thing for some people to ask others not to swear and be flagged to death, at least that's the usual outcome from what I've seen.
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#96This is a very clear illustration of the inequalities between the northern and southern hemisphere’s.
Genetics
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#97Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.
They did/do this. One of the big problems is competing with customers. i.e. you go from being a platform (Windows, Unity, Shopify, etc) to an aggregator (Amazon, Spotify, Instagram, etc) and your relationship goes from the small store to Shopify. Similar to how you might browse Doordash for "food", rather than look specifically for "Chipotle".
Upside of an aggregator is discovery/distribution. Downside is you rely on the aggregator for that discovery/distribution.
Rare for billion dollar businesses to be built on aggregators, not so rare for them to be built on platforms.
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#99The bounding shape of Michigan is so fucked xD, https://elixi.re/i/mf4eb.png
In case it's not obvious what is going on: it's using the actual state borders for the Great Lakes states, so the water territory is included.
I had to stare at the map for a minute before I found Michigan. They butchered the poor state!
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#100I'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.