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by benmarks 2y ago
Not a fork. They just took over the account/listing, which preserves 1200 reviews, etc. As fascinating as it is deplorable.
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Why Alibaba’s U.S. operations have struggled to take off(modernretail.co)
1 points by benmarks 4y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 5y ago
Are forums like HN not also a social medium?
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by benmarks 5y ago
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.
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by benmarks 5y ago
There's a fantastic book which addresses this - "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805073690
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by benmarks 5y ago
BigCommerce allows adult products. Other than that there are open source platforms which do the trick.
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by benmarks 5y ago
Looks like BigCommerce, Magento, or Shopware are better options.
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by benmarks 5y ago
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.
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by benmarks 5y ago
"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
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Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network(twitter.com)
17 points by benmarks 6y ago|4 comments
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Fraud Prevention Startup NS8 Layoffs, CEO Departs Amid SEC Fraud Investigation(forbes.com)
3 points by benmarks 6y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 6y ago
Sure, this place is loads better.
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by benmarks 6y ago
And that's no laughing matter (seriously though, kind of a big deal!)
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by benmarks 6y ago
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 im
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by benmarks 6y ago
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
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by benmarks 6y ago
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. Mo
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by benmarks 6y ago
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.
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Backstage.io – open-source developer portal from Spotify(backstage.io)
2 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
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
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by benmarks 7y ago
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
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by benmarks 7y ago
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 aircr
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Tom Hanks Says He Has Coronavirus(nytimes.com)
11 points by benmarks 7y ago|2 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
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=...
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Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey(bloomberg.com)
5 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
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
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Shogun raises $10M to help e-commerce brands build faster websites(techcrunch.com)
2 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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A new way to find clothes, shoes and more on Search(blog.google)
2 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
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.
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by benmarks 7y ago
Magento. Note: am employee.
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by benmarks 7y ago
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.

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