Well for one thing they seem to have have quite a comprehensive tax system which they keep updated. Something I realised could be valuable when dealing with a Californian client on a different Ecom platform.
Another one is a reasonably powerful but client friendly interface, which sounds easy but almost all other platforms fail in some way.
Lastly it isn't totally bad for headless ecommerce, at least if you dont look at the accounts system too hard.
Racing drone batteries can be charged around 4C and discharged at close to 100C (Unsure how many of those C is marketing), but then I think they safely qualify as high stress..
With increasing automation less people can do more work and therefore earn more money, this is already causing some of the unemployment issues we see today.
Do you write your own dom/data/event binding systems in vanilla javascript or simply not use that approach? Genuine question, I have written a ton of ground up code across multiple languages but couldn't imagine reinventing that particular wheel for what we do.
Yes. Reinventing the wheel in this case is far less work than it sounds. You aren't really reinventing anything. Here is my current project where everything is vanilla.
The video demo is a few months old now, but in the current code I have broken network sharing during a refactor. The GUI and local file system still work well though.
I went through a phase of using pub sub with jquery + rivets + radio + underscore templates years ago. Two way data binding was a revelation for forms.
Then came vue which solved all of this in a clean way with a lot of other benefits to boot. I chose it over react because it can coexist relatively fine with old code, and with years worth of sites to maintain there's a fair amount of that.
> You’ve got armies of managers and bean counters trying to squeeze nickels out of processes
Unfortunately the processes they are squeezing often involve budgets and salaries, like those of factory workers, teachers and nurses. Its a bit hard to sympathise with this kind of 'value' sometimes.
> In fast food, for example, self-order touch screens are vastly inferior to a trained order taker
> Grocery checkout automation is atrocious
I don't kniw about elsewhere but in NZ and Japan I'll pick self check out every time it's there. Its a bit sad on the human side of things but it is easier
That said, they solve some difficult problems and no one else comes close at the moment.