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No doubt. I've found that Lyft is the one major missing piece for me, but because Uber has an app (and has previously had a full-functioned mobile site) that it wasn't a deal breaker. I'm probably simpler than most around here in my wants from my smartphone though.
I wasn't trying to contradict that. I was trying to indicste that failures in it are due to how much the terrain has changed. By and large the standardization process was successful, the failure is that there haven't been any revisions since (and likely won't be).
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That's clever. It didn't even slow done my modest laptop.
Recruiting drivers from competitors isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's the tactics used here to attempt to kill Lyft by making it bleed cash that are unethical.
Chrome's style inspector pretty much tells you everything... it's mostly basic techniques used in very creative ways
Evil company. Once they destroy the competition, they will use these tactics to squeeze out customers.

As an end-user, we must avoid Uber. We can't let them win.
> this is not childish, this is sinister. Some driver somewhere burned lot of gas and rubber only to be disappointed that there is no fare there.

It could be even worse.

Imagine a Lyft driver going to a Uber initiated non-existent fare. Now imagine him or her getting into an accident and dying on the way there.
I'm not super interested in developing a hierarchy of sins since I don't think it's useful or realistic.

You asked if he'd engaged in actual discrimination -- by donating that money, he had. Having the opinion wasn't what people were mad about.
"will seem more and more malevolent". Are you saying its not actually malevolent but is just being perceived as so because it is aggressive ?
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This article only describes a concerted effort to recruit drivers by hailing rides. Lyft still gets paid.

I believe that the hail / cancel tactic is unethical, but this article only describes direct recruitment.
Maybe, but s/he did explicitly mention the regression testing taking a long time
The article documents recruiting Lyft drivers by riding with them, which is neither unethical nor illegal. It doesn't document cancelling rides, which would definitely be unethical, and should be illegal.
reminded me of this Michael Talbot interview, author of "The Holographic Universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew

Sadly, Mr. Talbot died in 1992, six months after this interview.
It is more complicated than that, though.

Yes, while you can build a kernel+libc+binary code application that is pretty lean, that means that your kernel plus graphics stack need to handle both that type of application, as well as a web browser and related content.

In some cases, having to handle just one of those opens up optimization opportunities, either in the kernel, libc, or the graphics stack. If you can run only native binaries using a single graphics method, that might be overall leanest, but every phone needs a browser these days. So the only other option to have a single thing to optimize for is to make the only stack the web stack.

Then, whatever is optimal for the browser in terms of handling GPU textures, as one example, you can just do, because nothing else needs to run as well.
Having dealt with "grown-ups" in several PTAs, they never grow up. It's like middle school until you die.
Actually the mobile version of Facebook website is not bad. Twitter on the other side...
In fact, disrupt and sabotage are synonyms.
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They are really nice but I really don't see the point why they are implemented in css. Most of the images make use of the capability of directly using gradients in the background-image property. Of course it could be easily replaced by the appropriate svg element.

For the lollypop shadow I would make use of the 3D transformation capabilities of CSS3. AFAIK svg is only capable of affine transformations (why?) while CSS3 can handle perspective transformations too.
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Is there anything that keeps someone in India from buying a bunch, and shipping them to the US for resale?
The important question isn't necessarily: Is it worth it, without the ecosystem? The more interesting questions is: What does this language add?

For example, I need to deal with some unix process management tasks. I'm not crazy enough to do them in straight C, so I'm using python for it's strong C bindings, so I can use system calls in C with python level control flow. However, there's a lot to be desired, because dealing with all this concurrency and inherent raciness of the system in a language like python is a royal pain in the rearside.

Similar things with java and performant programming. Some of my major programs at work don't use the java ecosystem outside of log4j, junit, apache commons lang and apache commons collections. They use java, because java is darned fast without being as brittle as C or as nuts as C++. So java adds a lot of really cheap development security.

Designing yet another language that puts the existing features together with just a tiny difference doesn't add anything. I've enjoyed looking at experimental languages, and I've enjoyed tinkering around with ideas myself some time ago. But by now, I've accepted I'm not smart or talented enough to make something worthwile, and it will be some time until an interesting new breakthrough occurs.
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I think I know what is meant now.

The directive (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/consumer-marketing/rights-contra...):

(60) Since inertia selling, which consists of unsolicited supply of goods or provision of services to consumers, is prohibited by Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market (‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (2) but no contractual remedy is provided therein, it is necessary to introduce in this Directive the contractual remedy of exempting the consumer from the obligation to provide any consideration for such unsolicited supply or provision.

The way I read that is if you add an item to the customers cart automatically, then you have no legal claim to get paid for that item. The sale of the stuff you actually wanted is still valid.
Well there are other companies that are making manipulators. Kinova for example looks promising with a polished robotic arm. They don't have the mobile base tough, which is sad.
So now that we know what to do, the big question is: who's going to spend the next 5-10 years of their life on that project?

But this is my point: We are already solving all of those problems, and doing almost all of the work I suggested.

All of the main package managers recognise versions and dependencies in some form. Of course the model might not be perfect, but within the scope of each set of packages, it is demonstrably useful, because many of us are using it every day.

All of the people contributing packages to centralised package repositories for use with npm and gem and pip and friends are already using version control and they are already adding files to their projects to specify the dependencies for the package manager used to install their project — or in many cases, for multiple package managers, so the project can be installed multiple different ways, which is effectively just duplicated effort for no real benefit.

All major operating systems already come with some form of package management, though to me this is the biggest weak point at the moment. There are varying degrees of openness to third parties, and there is essentially no common ground across platforms except where a few related *nix distributions can use the same package format.

All major operating systems also support virtualisation to varying degrees, though again there is plenty of scope for improvement. I’ve suggested before that it would be in the interests of those building operating systems to make this kind of isolation routine for other reasons as well. However, even if full virtual machine level isolation if too heavyweight for convenient use today, usually it suffices to install the contents of packages locally within a given location in the file system and to set up any environment accordingly, and again numerous package managers already do these things in their own ways.

There is no need for multi-year ISO standardisation processes, and there is no need to have everything in the universe work the same way. We’re talking about tools that walk a simple graph structure, download some files, and put them somewhere on a disk, a process I could have done manually for the project I described before in about 10 minutes. A simple, consolidated version of the best tools we have today would already be sufficient to solve many real world problems, and it would provide a much better foundation for solving any harder problems later, and it would be in the interests of just about everyone to move to such a consolidated, standardised model.
I completely agree. I'm not huge into watching streaming but I'll be more likely to stay watching a stream for a lot longer than a YouTube video. Which for advertising purposes. They have more opportunities for either on page ads or intermittent ads between rounds/matches. Combined with the fact that most streaming. You develop more interest and involvement with a player or players.

I don't care about a random keyboard or video card advertisement. But what keyboard or video card your favorite streamer is using seem like a far more valuable ad to pursue. The NFL and others have a lot of branding. And merchandising among teams. YouTube can't get people to buy shirts or random things of random funny fading videos. But I think it'd be a lot more likely for many to buy something relateded to longer term Fandom
In this context, it's interesting to look at the history of the label "Made in Germany." It was mandated by the British in 1887 to distinguish true British products from cheap imitations of inferior quality, the latter coming mostly from Germany. And now look what happened. Could it be that the Samwer brothers are the vanguard of a golden age of German software products?
Fucking node and npm. >_<
Heard plenty of stories about Travis Kalanick well before Uber took off the way it has. To that end I'm not surprised by any of these shady (and most likely illegal) tactics. Not sure if Google Ventures really knew what they were getting themselves into.
(MDG-er here) Yup, we decided to break it into two parts! Expect a blog post on Isobuild very soon.
It's amazingly sad that instead of competing through innovation, marketing, or price adjustments...that capital would get devoted to competitor sabotage of QOS (almost like a real life DDOS attack). What a terrible usage of capital and resources!
> There's no reason for a stack that is (linux kernel +
> android hal + web runtime) to require more resources than
> (linux kernel + android hal + dalvik and a java toolkit).

Correct, but likewise there's no good reason for (linux + android hal + web) to require /less/ ram than (linux + android hal + dalvik and java toolkit).

Even if we accept the claim that most of the time on Android you have both dalvik and webkit loaded at once, whereas on B2G you only have gecko running, claiming that this necessarily means that B2G uses less memory is akin to claiming that

x + y > z

for arbitrary values of x, y, and z, which is obviously silly.

But I don't need to tell you that this claim that B2G uses less memory by design was a major frustration to me back when I owned B2G memory usage. :) If FFOS is small, it's because you and I and others worked really hard to make it so.
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What happens when you write

var x []string = strs ?

If you make a copy of the slice's underlying array and point x to the copy, then you are hiding a potentially expensive allocation behind an apparently innocuous initialization (something that Go tries very hard not to do).

If, instead, you make x point to the same underlying array as strs, then you would have to have immutable slices, which is something that currently does not exist in Go.

I'm not saying neither of the two options is acceptable, but they surely raise issues that go against the grain of the language.
I wonder sometimes if certain markets -- like taxi services, used car dealerships, domain registrars, etc. -- have inherent and non-obvious structural characteristics that bias the market toward "slimy" behavior.

To some extent Uber and Lyft are being driven by customer dissatisfaction with the expensive price-fixed "cab mafia," but in reading about these companies it seems like the sliminess has just shifted to other domains.
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I also think it's a little crazy we talk about 1Mbps bandwidth now; I'd probably just start thinking of pricing as "$10k per Gbps" or something. (Usually big/cheap pipes include a commit level, too, and of course a max port size, so you're usually talking about 100+Mbps on a gig port minimum for "real" prices, or 1Gbps on a 10GE port.)
So we say the language is terrible because the world around it changed? Using Common Lisp may be inconvenient because the standard is out of date, that doesn't mean the design (or language) was a failure in a historical sense.

I just think this whole argument is basically a straw man. Comparing something well specified that hasn't changed is 30 years to an entire class of hand wavy 'better languages' isn't an apples to apples comparison, and is, frankly, a dumb waste of time.
Uber ought to be liable to a lawsuit, at least in general for violating Lyft's terms of service with fake accounts on a mass scale.

Along the same lines as the AirBnB spamming controversy, when it was reveled they violated Craigslist's ToS on a large scale to grow their business in the early days.
If you use Uber, you're an asshole.

By this point, it's an excellent job interview question. "What do you think of Uber?" Anyone says they love Uber is a no-hire.
"Previous job salary" has (or should have) little to no bearing on "current job salary" regardless of gender. In fact, there is only a relationship as long as a candidate employee allows it.

It is not at all the business of a potential new employer what their potential new employees' current salaries are. The only reason for an employer to ask for such information is to reduce the compensation offer for a new employee.
It's not about breaking this or that particular regulation. It's the sheer number you have to comply with. Even if every single regulation was positive on its own, in aggregate they could still stifle economic development and lead to perverse results.

Take web for example. Of course it would be better if every website followed standards, was available to impaired users, and over ssl. But if you started fining people who fail to live up, you would make it prohibitively expensive to run a private site outside of a handful of massive platforms established by large corporations who can afford developers and usability testing.

We understand that in this context. The advice to start with whatever works and iterate from there is common.

It's the same with running a company. The more requirements there are, even if each one is perfectly reasonable, the fewer people will be able to afford to start them, the less innovation we will see, the more we will rely on foreign products from countries with lesser regulation burden.
Whose ethics book says hiring employees from competitors is wrong? Pixar's?
The first couple of these all have before and after pseudo elements. If you're going to use those its kind of cheating calling it a single div when you have 3 styleable elements
One of the creators here. Thank you! We removed the playing song in the beginning! The data is from the Spotify web api! :)
(MDG-er here) Expect a blog post on Isobuild very soon... :-)
Speaking of Sandstorm, they have 13 percent of their campaign left unfunded, and only 5 days to go.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-clo...
Thanks for the feedback everyone! Pushing the latest adjustments to heroku (yay for Meteor.js support!) as we speak.
Long winded in more ways than one. I would still use Spark even if it were slower than Hadoop, just to get a sane API.
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I can't tell if you're trolling. Did you really just say that gay marriage rights are about bikeshedding?
> We want to help authors build their own brands.

Don't underestimate the assistance that your brand can give to the brands of your authors. While toolsets for e-publishing may not act as editorial gateways, they still exercise a form of affinity/aesthetic filtering that can provide a discovery signal to book buyers.

Even a quick browse of the leanpub site (cited elsewhere in this thread) showed a clear difference from softcover viewing aesthetics. Over time, you may discover a correlation between "authors who liked the softcover toolchain" and "readers who buy from more than one softcover author". That would last until word got out, then you would have a flood of new authors who were attracted primarily by revenue opportunity, not toolchain/distribution aesthetics.

BTW, it's quite informative whether someone chooses to publish on WordPress, Blogspot, Tumblr, statically-generated html, or Facebook.
I absolutely love using Lyft in Seattle.
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Quoth Uber:

"Operation SLOG (Supplying Long-term Operations Growth)"

Backronym if ever there was one..
There are two separable domains here.

Firstly, the traditional model aeroplane realm: below 400 feet altitude ("angels 0.4"?), and presumably not at all in the approaches to runways.

Secondly, the new realm of beyond-visual-range high-altitude model aeroplane flight, as explored in the firework video.

The first has long been legal. The second probably needs some new rules for safe use. But the problem is that the FAA has reacted to the emergence of the second by trying to annexe the first.
To those who have used Lyft: do you get any choice in which drivers come to pick you up?

If not, I can see how the combination of Uber's policies can lead to a lot of cancelled rides even without Uber explicitly telling their recruiters to do so. To wit:

- You're an Uber recruiter, and you call up a Lyft driver to pick you up from somewhere.

- At some point, I assume you get to see the driver's profile through Lyft, at which point you flip through your messaging app and realize that he's already been pitched.

- Since Uber discourages you from pitching to the same driver more than once, you cancel the ride.

This leads to a lot of cancelled rides coming from Uber's recruiters, while letting them keep their company line of, "We don't ask our employees to deliberately cancel rides". Because, technically, they haven't.
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Cultures as I stated in my initial post. British publicans get baffled when you tip them, Arabic businessmen bring costs to negotiations, Americans are good at service...All cultural.
I know nobody that uses this. Even the free $1 they offered when it first launched wasn't enough to convince me to link it to my bank account. Anybody have a different experience?
If you were starting a project do you think it would ever be a good idea to write parts of out in different languages? Surely if you think a language is good then it's good enough for most things and the advantages of having a common language (review, experience, transferring devs, cognitive overhead etc) outweigh the benefits of using the perfect language for every task (even if you could get people to agree on what each language is - it will be hard enough to get them to agree on one)
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From the article: planet-wide weather forecasting, seismic measuring for oil exploration, financial analysis or crash simulations. You can't split up a physical simulation.
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And Hailo (?)

But why aren't they succeeding?
yeah, the timeline is usually: ios--->android--------->wp
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Yup. Just because a substance is legal, doesn't mean using it absolves you of responsibility for your actions while using it. Look at alcohol.
That's what it's like from your point of view, sure, but I'm kind of taking the point of view of someone who values Scottish (or Welsh) national identity and for them being labeled as "England" even for the sake of convenience could be a bit of a slap (and again, not that it's your intention, obviously).

For what it's worth: roughly 10 years ago, when Poland was about to join the EU, Yes supporters used a slogan "Yes, I'm an European" [and thus I vote for entering the EU] in the pre-referendum campaign.

I would see this slogan (consciously playing on the Eastern complex, to be sure) as somewhat offensive in its coarseness. What was it really saying? 1000 years of European history and heritage doesn't matter and you are disqualified from being an European if you don't support joining the EU? :)
That seems like a needless exaggeration. Traveling to a non-existent fare does not result in the driver doing anything they wouldn't have been doing otherwise.

Uber's behaviour is already bad, we don't need to add hyperbole.
Saying things like "Going beyond Hadoop" is very misleading. Virtually all of the Hadoop vendors out there, whether it be Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR commercially support Spark as a computation framework for Hadoop, and some already have customers who are already using Spark on HDFS to power mission critical applications. People still pretend that Hadoop is some batch-orientated system with a distributed file system, but they couldn't be farther from the truth. Hadoop is a movement, an evolution of how data is to be analyzed in today's world.

The fact is, the vast majority of people who use spark (or will use spark), will rely on Hadoop for a lot of underlying technologies, such as, YARN (resource management) or HDFS (distributed filesystem / in-memory caching). Further, if you think Spark is somehow the "end all be all" computation framework, you're living in a fantasy world. The best part of Hadoop is that depending on your use case, you can bring a multitude of applications to your data, whether it's Spark, Tez, MapReduce, HBase, Impala, Drill, Presto, Tajo, Accumulo, ...the list goes on, and continues to evolve. Spark is in no way replacing Hadoop, it's only strengthening it.
I find this somewhat funny in a way because I've ran into several drivers that were "double agents" driving both for Uber and Lyft. It makes a lot of sense actually driving for both to make up for dead times.