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That's right. Effectively we measure everything and have multi-factor performance metrics with our partners. So it's a bit more objective than Uber which is entirely based on user feedback. If we detect that a node in the system is performing poorly we will not use it.

Amazon leads the market for many reasons among those price, selection [1], reviews, and then with more recent shifts faster shipping. The goal isn't to beat Amazon the marketplace. The goal is to bring the Prime experience to other marketplaces. I don't believe it's a zero sum game.

Amazon is a lot more comfortable than they were 10 years ago, and you can already see that as a result in higher prices [1][2] and lower shipping SLAs. Lifting the rest of the market increases competition and helps all buyers have a better experience.

[1] http://www.samseely.com/blog/2016/5/2/the-amazon-flywheel-pa... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-more-expensive-tha... [3] http://time.com/money/5256866/amazon-prime-membership-price-...

Amazon has a program called Multi-channel fulfillment. But there are significant drawbacks to sellers and marketplaces:

1. It comes in an Amazon box. Large marketplace have started penalizing sellers for that.

2. They don't integrate into fast shipping programs that act like Prime, as an example eBay eGD.

You are right that eBay and Walmart can offer this service, but most sellers will sell in multiple places, and splitting inventory across different facilities is expensive, inefficient, and difficult to manage. Isolationism in this market hurts everybody.

We definitely aren't. I posted this to our Slack and one of our new sales guys created an account and posted. When I saw it I asked him to take it down.

I run engineering at Deliverr. Happy to answer any questions.

Avocado Oil is the de-facto high heat cooking oil with a good fat profile (mostly monounsaturated fats).

They sell these varieties all at Whole Foods. Usually Grass Fes and Corn Fed at the butcher section and Grass Fed Corn Finished pre-packed on the side.

The article misconstrues multiple food movements from by taking three words, natural, fresh, and local, and not understanding the context around them. The article therefore boils down into a straw man argument.

The slow food movement particularly is a tiny minority, it’s like bringing up the Tea Party, for a political debate. There is a much larger movement against fast food, and that’s mostly because of chemicals used in fast food. Nitrate preserved meat has links to cancer. Azodicarbonamide, a dough conditional, banned in Europe/Australia, was in US Subway sandwiches till last year. Then of course there is soda, a food engineered to be over-consumed, which leads to diabetes and obesity.

No one outside of Raw Vegans, again another tiny minority, is against preservation of foods. In fact, it’s common and promoted. The mechanism though is typically through bacterial fermentation and pickling with vinegar which is how most of the foods (soy, tofu, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles, herring, yogurt etc) are prepared, stored, and used during winter times when no vegetation is available. Synthetic preservatives have been linked to negative health outcomes.

The local food movement is really just about eating produce locally when possible. Why should? Typically it’s cheaper, more varied, and more nutritious. All of the words agriculture is bred for maximum shelf life. You aren’t getting the best tasting food, you are just getting the food that won’t go bad. That also means it’s less genetically diverse. There 10k varieties of tomatoes, you can only buy about 5 commercially. Emphasis here is on produce, no one is abstaining from imported spices.

Most of these movements come at the heels of rising obesity epidemic in the US and around the world against an industry that’s for profit and not for pro health. Some are extreme, but that helps swing the pendulum the opposite direction. You can see the rise of more ingredient conscious and more delicious Chipotle, which sources all ingredients within 350mi and the fall of the heavily processed McDonalds. This is a net positive and not something we should be condemning.

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Love this project, almost surprising that nothing like this exists today for the maven world.

An average work day isn't filled with 100% development. You have breaks for lunch, coffee, people asking you questions, meetings, ping pong, etc. For a good workplace a chunk of your time is a social experience like any other. That means if you spend about 2-3 hours a day total socializing, then the 5 hours a day you spend working. For startups, sometimes you have time sensitive releases so that number goes from 5 to 10, but it's still only about 50 hours of actual development per week even though it's 65 with all the other stuff included.

Treehouse has managed to make a 4 hour week work since everyone is working remotely, so that social aspect is not as prominent and consumes less time. For people who have kids spending time for the kids becomes more important than the social experience at work as it should. The 4 day work week all of a sudden makes sense since they have bundled those 3 hours / day of a work social time into one day of a kids time.

I shop organic, typically at farmer's markets, and actively cook. I lived in Toledo for a little while and visited Detroit. While you have access to supermarkets in that part of the country the access is very poor. I ate a lot of fast food simply because fast food is within 5 min and a super market is often times 30 min. Produce is typically poor quality and imported.

It's helpful to have predictable names. Imagine you have to @ someone or add them on a code review by name or send them a chat by name. @fruitloops123 is a lot harder to remember than @mark[Teamname] or @marklastname.

When you are large enough first names no longer work.

GitHub's tools always fell short for me. Phabricator is a much better code review tool (with a commandline workflows). Trello / JIRA are a lot faster and more flexible for issue management or sprint workflows.

I get these emails weekly and it's very helpful in interview prep.

If you are using Java with a package/build manager like maven you can always automatically pull all the source jars and then any IDE (Intellij/Eclipse) will allow you to jump through all third party libraries. Are you targeting the non-IDE crowd with this tool?

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My mistake; I would define it either way.

I disagree with this article. A "Growth Hacker" is an engineer that applies himself in the field of marketing. This means coming up with interesting and innovative ways of lowering the cost of user acquisition. The distinction is important since Marketing itself is a very loaded term.

Companies like Zynga thrived because they found cheap ways of getting users: early un-managed FB platform, and app referrals. Same with AirBnB and their craigslist post automation.

Growth hacking isn't going to make your product better, but more people will be aware of it.

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about Java. There are a bunch of apps written in Java web start(ie yEd), which involves just clicking on a link. Off the top of my head, some very popular Java apps are Eclipse/Intellij or Azureus.

The first thing that anyone who doesn't know Java complains about is running a main method, which no one in the Java world does 99% of the time. This is probably the first thing you have to do in a Hello World Java tutorial, but has nothing to do with Java.

There are some poor design choices in Java like no method overriding, mix of primitives and their boxed equivalents, lack of closures, or first class functions, confusing equals semantics, generics verbosity, etc. But main method is just moot.

Also it has nothing to do with superiority of Lisp over Java. Lisp has a different philosophy it's a functional language, while languages like Java, C, Ruby, Python etc are all imperative (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#Comparis...). I think a better article would be about the virtues of each style and when to use which.

When Google went IPO their valuation hovered around 30B, compare that to Facebooks 3 times that, now nearing 90-100B in the private markets. Companies are staying the private markets a lot longer so by the time they hit the public market they are already overvalued/valued appropriately. I doubt Facebook will see exponential growth initially until they have healthier profit numbers. Unless a lot of amateur investors buy it because they saw The Social Network.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. When I read Fahrenheit 451 a while back I was bothered by it since it really describes the trends in present day society. There the war was on television, and how over time it has been reduced to pointless factoids without depth or context. Sounds familiar?

Certain Indian food is eaten with rice and some with bread. If you are using the wrong one that is the only reason you would get strange looks. If you use fork and knife then you would actually get strange looks.

I believe in eating food based on how it was designed to be eaten. For most asian food chopsticks or hands are appropriate, the food is designed for it. For Indian food, using your hands is essential. Europeans make you work harder so you need to use fork and knife.

If you use hands that doesn't mean it isn't sanitary. Keep your hands clean; there is a shared plate and an individual where you actually eat from.

I actually don't agree with this at all. Everyone loves to hate on college, but personally and professionally on average there is a world of difference between people that come from a good school and a bad school.

We are all lazy, I would rather have fun and party; that's a no brainer. However, rigor and competition and some metric(grades) to compare students is what pushes and motivates them to succeed. Creativity is possible in creative subjects, if you take drama, music, or art grading is going to be very different than in chemistry or physics. This has nothing to do with the system, and more to do with subjects.

Not everyone thrives in the system, but not everyone gets joy out of learning either. Problem is that there are a few good schools and a lot of bad schools, so on average you'll hear poor experiences, but this is suffering from the silent evidence effect.

For out of college candidates you have two dominant types of problems: algorithms, and data-structures.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/170/ http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,d,Computer_Science,63...

REST != HTTP. HTTP, which is the language of the web is just an example of a REST implementation. A lot of people get this wrong. This should say Restful for everything, not REST.

Also to be REST compliant you have to employ discoverability and hypermedia.

Read: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

Firefox market share is going to continue to shrink as Chrome takes over. They've just been way too slow to respond. It is a shame since feature wise Firefox is a superior browser.