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Ford GoBike have to be some of the worst, most ill-maintained bikes in the city. The product quality is terrible compared to the competition - half the bikes have mechanical issues, the electrical bikes were hazardous.
I was an early subscriber given how cheap it was, but I often struggled to find a bike that worked.
Uber launched a similar service in Africa last year..
Blah - seems like a sensationalist clickbait article, just cashing in on the current media cycle.
I'm honestly more shocked at the myopic discussion in this thread, quite lacking in understanding the range of motivations of people who work there. I'm a long-time engineering employee, and seen a lot of ups and downs. To build a service that was used by a few thousand in one city to millions all over the world has been one of the most exciting jobs I've had, with great feats of engineering and operational execution. Numbers don't lie that we've built a reliable service - the negative media cycles don't hurt the business. There have been a ton of growing pains, with a lot of agenda-driven empire builders, bro-ey-ness, and general lack of careful cultural development that have contributed to the current situation, and left quite a few rankled employees in its wake. Whether it will come out strong from this situation is up to the strength of the leadership, and we'll see what the remedy holds.
FWIW, I have seen a huge uptick in recruiter inbounds in the last few weeks (understandably), with all the best names Facebook, Google, Amazon and Tesla on the list.
Could someone link to examples of her work? The article reads as if it's more of a fashionable contrarianism, mostly for the sake of it. I would like to experience her work in detail tho. Sadly, a clever name like 'Amy G Dala' fools google and doesn't turn up anything.
DC and Colma also suffer from some of the worst fog cover through out the year around the area.
As soon as I read the fellow employee name, Julie Rubicon.
Not adding node_modules to .gitignore would be a very wrong way of solving this issue.
Their mobile app is one of the most poorly designed and poorly executed major tech products out there. For a company that hires probably a thousand engineers, there has been very little improvements on the web and mobile properties in over 4 years. For a product that's innately social, local and realtime, it has missed most of the enabled affordances of years past.
I'm surprised that there isn't much competition. I was traveling recently, and found Zomato's app to be much superior.
It is. I get an uber where I live within 2-3 minutes. And sometimes I've gotten uberPool matches essentially going to the same destination picked up within a block. These are only achievable with considerable penetration into a local market.
What you said doesn't make much sense. Much more important than the algorithm is the market that the algorithm operates in. Uber couldn't unleash a magical algorithm and solve commuting inefficiencies for every user if there isn't a sufficient density of both riders and drivers (i.e. the main inputs to the algorithm in this case).
Buying worthless taxicab medallions to circumvent political opposition seems like a fool's errand. 13,605 NYC taxicab medallions at a cost of $600,00 is $8.1 Billion, for an asset that's destined to be worth zero in a few years.
I think the study is trying to link two quite unrelated aspects through a narrow lens of anonymized "international" friendship links. What constitutes international? Is any link outside of your own country considered international?
To me, this chart seems to highlight countries that have relatively open borders with its neighbors, or countries where immigrants as percentage of population is high because of economic opportunities and such. Consider Saudi Arabia or Oman, which gets a lot of immigrants from all over the Muslim world, which seems to be one of the most "international" countries. This inference seems counter to the fact that many of those countries are not as open to international businesses as say, Singapore or Hong Kong. Nor are they poor countries per se.
Why would anyone need to buy a 64GB Apple TV rather than a 32GB one?
Meh. That's a lot of input that the author had to provide. It is responding to unstructured/unpredictable messages as well, which takes quite a bit of thinking by the author.
If I had to change a flight, I would guess I could do it faster on Virgin's website rather than through Magic. Same with the helicopter.
Tangential to the conversation, but the website (Timeline) is new to me, and it is quite interesting.
Does it seem to anyone else that the design is completely backwards? After reading a news article, I'd wanna learn about what has been happening recently with the issue, and dig a little deeper slowly. This forces a model where some small bit of news is followed by a wikipedia entry of sorts.
I can't see how Dropbox wouldn't end up getting crushed in this fight. Just recently, they reclaimed all the promo/referral/college storage I had, and shrunk my space from 40GB to 15GB. Pay up $10 per month or lose all your data.
I shopped around, and got a $2 per month from Google Drive. The product is pretty much on parity with Dropbox on the Mac, and works exactly the same way. Yes, I'll take that 80% discount, thank you.
Same with Lyft. Three people looking at their phone in a Lyft Line just means that they want to get to where they want to go without some mindless chitchat.
11.9% at 300M. So, 2.52B valuation. About 20+% of company sold in current raise!
I love the design of Sunrise, but the slowness of the app and network refresh infuriates me. Been using the Google Calendar app this morning, and love the instantaneous sync.
Sunrise was relegated to the fourth screen on my iPhone immediately.
10 basis points for a #100 employee does not seem like an accurate representation. FB was quite mature by 2009, and offers were not as high. (Source: Offer in 2008)
What does Airbnb's revenues look like?
I was more interested in knowing the level of transparency on a day-to-day basis on metrics such as usercount, revenue, etc. you know, stuff that could get you in a bind for insider trading.
Does Facebook have similar policies? What's the level of transparency there?
Suffice to say that, it was at least a very expensive experiment. And everybody I know hated it - it had a very antisocial vibe on the wearer.
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Edit: thanks for downvoting a valid point. It's weird that HN doesn't see it for what it is.
Uber has their own side of the story here: http://blog.uber.com/cheersto2015
I have found twitter search to be a very reliable indicator in such events. e.g. caltrain failures, traffic blockages and such.
Which stores are they? I mostly shop at Whole Foods and Costco, if those prices are exact, I wouldn't mind throwing more business Instacart's way.
Oh yea, losing 8% cashback at wholefoods that Amex gives is a sting in the back of the mind too. You should work on fixing that.
This offering is similar to Uber Perks , which uber has had for a couple years..