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Not a fork. They just took over the account/listing, which preserves 1200 reviews, etc. As fascinating as it is deplorable.

Are forums like HN not also a social medium?

Always a fair question, but I don't see how that applies to his point one way or the other. There's an ounce of meat AT BEST in this article.

There's a fantastic book which addresses this - "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805073690

BigCommerce allows adult products. Other than that there are open source platforms which do the trick.

Looks like BigCommerce, Magento, or Shopware are better options.

Thanks for saying it so I didn't have to. I'm hard-pressed to see how Shopify are significantly harmful. They deserve their success.

"I grew fed up of being stuck in this e-commerce framework – having to work with its hyper-normalised MySQL database (the EAV model)"

2011? Had to be Magento. Not a great fit with what they were trying to accomplish. Not that they seemed to have a clear understanding of how to accomplish what they wanted, which was to throw spaghetti at a wall and hope something made them rich.

Sure, this place is loads better.

And that's no laughing matter (seriously though, kind of a big deal!)

Technically, no, and then they would probably terminate the employee.

Maybe this is better stated as "If you resign from a hugely visible platform, because it's bad, but you don't tell anyone, have you really maximized the impact of your resignation for good?"

Multi-Level Marketing, e.g. that person from grade school who messages you out of the blue to ask how you're doing, and then tell you how much better you'd be doing with daily injections of IsoLeanIonigenTonicWater which you will also want to sell once you feel amazing/thin/virle/whatever.

It depends on the PE firm. We thought the same at Magento (eBay > Permira Funds), but in the end it was a pretty good ride into Adobe. Ryan does not strike me as a corporate raider - he seems to genuinely like building companies (e.g. MongoDB)... curious if others have more to add.

How much does that cost? /j

But seriously, good to see so many companies stepping up to just get things done, and to see (more or less) regulations being set aside or handled speedily.

The people who will start flooding the hospitals in the next few days are infected now. This action assumes these emergent cases are about to hit and will be followed by a leveling off of demand and increase of resources (e.g. temp hospital space).

I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.

A different type of WASP than I was thinking!

Another aviation-related WASP program was the essential WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots, which ran from 1942-44. These women "became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots [including towing firing practice targets]. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II."[0]

They were recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and granted internment rights at Arlington.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots

Your timing is auspicious. You might reach out to Adam Wathan, who just launched the paid component to Tailwind CSS. https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233134358388781080?s=...

My favorite example from the (ecommerce) domain in which I work is https://www.cobby.io/ - I know the team behind it, and while it perfectly solves the problem of product data for shops of a certain size, the live-editable cell idea always sparks conversation about the broader applications. Years later and we still see the genius of spreadsheets.

You might reach out to Michelangelo van Dam. He knows this story well, and continues to be an inspiration in the PHP community. He’s @dragonbe on Twitter.

Magento.

Note: am employee.

One could look to the rules around trademark. If two things share the same name, but not the same market, they both keep the name. Humans can be relied on to literally coordinate an offering using a mark and market.

"The final total is unknown, but experts project another trillion dollars in costs over the next 40 years as wounded and disabled veterans age and need more services."

Add to this the unquantifiable lost opportunity from dead civilians, dead soldiers...

Appreciate the point, but that's a lot of work to even consider (my wife has her instrument and commercial tickets). Combine that weather, and you see why the AOPA's GC (or was it head lobbyist?) flies commercial when he needs to be somewhere.

Only recently discovered Mr. Stoller's media/reporting, and I have been absolutely impressed with his weekly mailing. Can highly recommend subscribing.

Some great numbers from Tobi, team, and ecosystem. I just wish they weren't so gung-ho on the "one million stores" metric, because the two figures juxtaposed don't do them any favors.

As a Magento person though I am keenly jealous of their level of insight into platform transactions. $3B is amazing.

We need legislation which deals with the reality of the PII loophole. While the ACR data on its own may not identify me/my household, it absolutely does once it's combined with the rest of my fingerprint in the cloud.

> Additionally planes age. What's your failure point after 10-15 years of service?

In practice there is/are none, because would-be points of failure are continuously replaced at a schedule well ahead of the number of cycles at which they are known or expected to fail. This is true for aircraft of all sizes, not just passenger jets.

“There’s a simple explanation. MCAS is not meant to control an unstable aircraft. It is meant to restrain the aircraft from entering the regime where it becomes unstable. This is the same strategy used by other mechanisms of stall prevention—intervening before the angle of attack reaches the critical point. However, if Brady is correct about the instability of the 737 MAX, the task is more urgent for MCAS. Instability implies a steep and slippery slope. MCAS is a guard rail that bounces you back onto the road when you’re about to drive over the cliff.”

http://bit-player.org/2019/737-the-max-mess

Given that "[i]t will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers," Mr. Kipchoge's attitude represents the best of sport:

"Now I've done it, I am expecting more people to do it after me... This shows the positivity of sport. I want to make it a clean and interesting sport. Together when we run, we can make it a beautiful world."

An amazing boundary to breach.