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Re:Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day by ngokevin on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:58PM (#12924282)
> On the technical side, the APIs are astonishingly bad. I suppose this is the result of building this very quickly, and it has grown ever since. I don't know how they manage to maintain it.

I visited Alibaba HQ last month. People seemed pretty worked and driven by deadlines which can decrease their code quality. The teams I talked to didn't do much testing.

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Re:Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day by MrBuddyCasino on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:41PM (#12924673)
That figures. China (Bejing) is 7 hours ahead of german time, yet I've noticed that my Tmall contacts are replying to messages when it is really late at night for them, sometimes excusing themselves that they have dinner right now. On 11.11 many are on duty for 24 hours.

Off topic, but in contrast to americans, german people are often frowning and complaining a lot - even though we really don't have much cause, in comparison. Friendliness and positivity are some of the things I really appreciate about the USA. Treasure it!

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Re:Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day by ngokevin on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:33PM (#12926226)
> On 11.11 many are on duty for 24 hours.

For sure, Alibaba is working all hands on deck and burning the midnight oil right now.

And yeah, I hope the nation can continue being positive and empathetic, and even grow more friendly in that regard.

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