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New side project launching wide: Holiday Shopping on Easy Modehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128977We built an SMS-only shopping platform!We make shopping as dead simple as humanly possible by sending you a text messages featuring a great product from a small brand with an awesome story and literally all you have to do is type YES when you see something you like and the rest is magic.We're the calling the holiday campaign "Holiday Shopping on Easy Mode" and once a day at noon Pacific from Late-Nov to mid-Dec, users will get a message featuring a curated product from one of 40+ brands we’ve partnered with. (Including a couple celebrity brands. )Reply YES a half dozen times and BOOM, Christmas shopping is done! No homework. No stress. And you still get to give your friends and fam great gifts with fun stories behind them.Did I make this specifically for me? Maybe. But I can't imagine I'm the only person who wants this brand of perfect.A bit on my background: I started my career as a theme park designer at Disney (like you do), but then one thing led to another and I became a game desi
Nov 13, 2024 7:17 PM
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Disney – DEI requires a history of privilegehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876610For background, I am currently a Principal Engineer at a close to FAANG level company, with 16 years of experience in the software industry and a college drop out. I had my own startup for 11 years, chased VC funding, managed and scaled software teams, and scaled software systems to millions of daily active users.I decided it was time for a change so I applied for some lead software engineering roles at Disney. Today I had a phone screening that lasted about 10 minutes. The second the recruiter asked about my highest form of education and I responded that I am a drop out, I could hear the hesitation in her voice so I asked if that was a deal breaker. Of course it was, but based on the years of experience they can see if I still map to the role.Unfortunately after she did the math my 16 years of experience with no degree only qualifies for a junior engineering role across all of Disney Engineering. To even qualify for a senior role, I needed 17 years of experience, and the lead role i a
Oct 13, 2023 11:11 PM
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Ask HN: Why is Disney+ UX so bad?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837397A few weeks ago I bought a one month Disney+ subscription to check it out. I have all kinds of problems when using their web player compared to Netflix and YouTube:- subtitle settings get reset every time I close the website.- the button for changing subtitles is in the upper right corner. Once you open the menu the button for closing it appears in the upper left corner. You can't close the menu by clicking outside of it, despite the fact that you can still see the blurred video in the background.- pressing space doesn't pause the video, but repeats the last action you did. If you closed the subtitle menu by pressing esc, pressing space will open it again. If you entered the full screen mode, pressing space will close it.- there is no way (afaik) to open a list of all episodes from within the player. You have to go back to the show's main page, choose the season (because it always defaults to season 1) and scroll a horizontal list (which always defaults to the first episode) using a bu
Sep 14, 2022 2:07 PM
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Free Disney Zoom Backgrounds & Wallpapershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTE1TaTJaUG94QmVibFpGVHdMVzhUVlVLdUg0d2JYTDBRZFgtUEdGX1hQZTI2TU1QNmd1VHBscVNKVjRMS2ZMYzIzYVFHQlIwWlNHUVU2YUFRek9ZOWd2VGR0ZHpfamw2aG1RUmJNYUJnRjA5cnFOSmFsZ0FlVUNPZkE?oc=5Free Disney Zoom Backgrounds & Wallpapers  Disney Tourist Blog
Aug 25, 2020 11:35 PM
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Ask HN: What should I be asking for salary wise as a soon to be graduatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827099I am soon to be Computer Science/Business graduate in the Los Angeles,CA area and am trying to figure what to be expecting/asking for salary wise.My background:-I have been programming for 9 years-I have worked for the CTO of my college through out college designing and implementing J2EE web applications from end to end.-I have had an internship every summer during college all related to computing/programming with companies including the Walt Disney Company-A colleague and I have a start up project on the side of school that I have developed in Rails.(I like rails a lot )-I know some other web frameworks including Play and Django.-My strong languages are Java, Ruby, Pyton,HTML/CSS, Javascript(Jquery and a little Node),SQL,PHP(basically anything web app related)Here's my linked in for more:http://www.linkedin.com/in/griffinmartyThanks in advance for the advice!
Jun 5, 2013 5:24 PM