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Re:Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M by sailfast on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:19PM (#14572728)
Not for nothing, but wasn't Walmart one of the first companies to use Node effectively at scale to ship hundreds of changes on the busiest shopping day of the year (Black Friday)?

Probably some interesting engineering challenges to pursue there. Pretty sure there is also a significant chunk of engineers that aren't as concerned about their approach to low-wage management. Amazon seems to have survived that challenge just fine.

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Re:Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M by orbifold on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:04PM (#14573469)
I am not sure if I would count using Node as evidence for technical finesse. Personally I would rather work for a company accomplishing the same with say Scala, Haskell, or even C#, C++ or Java, before I would consider Node.
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