Hacker News: benmarks

New comment by benmarks in "Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org"

benmarks — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:58:45 +0000

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

Why Alibaba’s U.S. operations have struggled to take off

benmarks — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.modernretail.co/platforms/why-alibabas-u-s-operations-have-struggled-to-take-off/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331709

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by benmarks in "Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life"

benmarks — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:15:58 +0000

Are forums like HN not also a social medium?

New comment by benmarks in "Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns"

benmarks — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:39:22 +0000

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.

New comment by benmarks in "The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses"

benmarks — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:10:04 +0000

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

New comment by benmarks in "Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom storefronts"

benmarks — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:23:01 +0000

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

New comment by benmarks in "Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom storefronts"

benmarks — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:22:06 +0000

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

New comment by benmarks in "Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom storefronts"

benmarks — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:20:22 +0000

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.

New comment by benmarks in "The surreal experience of my first developer job"

benmarks — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:56:01 +0000

"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.

Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network

benmarks — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:32:01 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/1313209403051442176

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24693959

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

Fraud Prevention Startup NS8 Layoffs, CEO Departs Amid SEC Fraud Investigation

benmarks — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:28:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/09/11/fraud-prevention-startup-ns8-fraud-investigation-sec/#35f257c07af8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470540

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by benmarks in "Light turned into exotic Laughlin matter"

benmarks — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 03:02:30 +0000

Sure, this place is loads better.

New comment by benmarks in "Light turned into exotic Laughlin matter"

benmarks — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:55:41 +0000

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

New comment by benmarks in "I'm resigning from my job at Facebook"

benmarks — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:23:07 +0000

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?"

New comment by benmarks in "Introducing Facebook Shops"

benmarks — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:52:48 +0000

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.

New comment by benmarks in "WeWork sells Meetup"

benmarks — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:41:57 +0000

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.

New comment by benmarks in "Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator for NHS"

benmarks — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:54:46 +0000

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.

Backstage.io – open-source developer portal from Spotify

benmarks — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:44:53 +0000

Article URL: https://backstage.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609423

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by benmarks in "Shelter in place for Bay Area counties"

benmarks — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:44:59 +0000

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).

New comment by benmarks in "United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus"

benmarks — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:32:26 +0000

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.