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For me, it was the redesign. Travis talking about how picking a corporate colour scheme was a "process of self discovery" was just too much SV nonsense. Atoms a
by MichaelGG 9y ago
For me, it was the redesign. Travis talking about how picking a corporate colour scheme was a "process of self discovery" was just too much SV nonsense. Atoms and Bits indeed.
Also didn't help they ran a big article about leaving Postgres because they couldn't assume their engineers understand DB transactions. Their example, IIRC, was a dev sending an email inside of a DB transaction and not knowing this would consume resources and cause contention. Normalising that kind of incompetency isn't positive.
But hey, in Guatemala I've got no alternative and Uber works great and is far safer than a taxi, so hey...
- Mtinie 9y ago> But hey, in Guatemala I've got no alternative and Uber works great and is far safer than a taxi, so hey... No local upstart competitors that are worth supporting?
- MichaelGG 9y agoNot that I've heard about. A local taxi company has an app that doesn't install properly and won't respond to emails about it. But they are running huge ads talking about how they're so "friendly" and "trusted". At the same time, the taxi drivers are threatening violence if the government doesn't boot Uber. Uber in Guatemala actually visits the drivers' houses, in addition to requiring police backgrounds on them and so on. It's far safer. The prices are far lower, too. Drivers make more than they'd make working in a call center, where unskilled English speakers can make $600-$700. It's also providing some investment opportunities. Use Uber's fleet management system to buy a bunch of cars and rent them out to drivers that don't own their own car. On the whole, Uber, in Guatemala, seems entirely positive.
- Mtinie 9y agoIn that case, I hope that Uber in Guatemala is run as a subsidiary that survives should it's corporate parent cease to exist.
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