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by employee8000 10y ago
You're right. Inspector Clouseau and Hercule Poirot would not stop until the murderer was caught.
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by employee8000 10y ago
I don't know how much more confirmation you can get than an official statement. If you want to believe speculation over an official statement that's entirely up to you. But if you stand at that particular intersection for an hour,
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by employee8000 10y ago
I don't think the term real-time has changed. Some people misuse it but it's still a very well-defined and strict term.
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by employee8000 10y ago
Trees are not covered under building codes. They are covered under city ordinances. And I cut down 3 trees on my property because I wasn't going to spend $150 per tree so that city hall could get themselves a nice Christmas bonus for d
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by employee8000 10y ago
You didn't bother reading the article. It was a human driver, not the car, that ran the red light.
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by employee8000 10y ago
(Uber employee) Read the story, not the headlines. The $175 permit only required verified insurance and training for the drivers. That's it. It wasn't a safety inspection at all. They didn't ensure that the cars were safe. It
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by employee8000 10y ago
Read the story, not the headlines. It was a human driver, not the car, that ran the red light.
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by employee8000 10y ago
This isn't about building codes. It's about stickers and permits. An independent inspector said that it was built twice as strong as a regular house. The inspector was just throwing the book at the person because it didn't fo
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by employee8000 10y ago
It's best to learn what real-time actually means in the context of technology. None of the above technologies are real-time. Near-real time might be more accurate but it depends on your tolerance.
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by employee8000 10y ago
1) none of my coworkers care. I'm sure very early employees may care but I don't know any and I can't speak for them. 2) most have RSUs. But if you're going to exercise in 90 days then you're going to exercise in 30
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by employee8000 10y ago
I was given an offer with non-aggressive deadline of 2 weeks. In terms of the equity portion, they were pretty straightforward with me and I had no surprises with my equity portion. In addition, none of my coworkers have complained about th
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by employee8000 10y ago
I hate how the author, a purported CEO, doesn't know the difference between "lost" and "spent". For example, "That means that GitHub lost $27M while generating $95M in revenue." GitHub spent $27M. To &qu
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by employee8000 10y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm just telling the truth. I don't access customer information, and I don't know anyone who audits the logs so I can't comment on those. I also don't know what other p
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by employee8000 10y ago
No, I'm not naive, and I, proudly, stand behind everything I wrote. The person in the article was terminated before I joined, so I don't know what the systems were like back then, but every time I access production systems, I have
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by employee8000 10y ago
If you know anything about giving birth, theres a tremendous amount of time between water breaking and labor. Women and encouraged to go for a meal and take a shower and rest up before the contractions get close enough so that you need to g
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by employee8000 10y ago
My youngest is not motivated by rewards or punishment. He just doesn't care. If I reward him with something good, he will accept it, but the loss of the reward will not motivate him to do things. Similarly he won't like being puni
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by employee8000 10y ago
Then what is the point of the checkbox?
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by employee8000 10y ago
Not checking that checkbox and admitting you're not willing to hire disabled people would likely expose you to a ton of lawsuits.
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by employee8000 10y ago
I fundamentally agree with you about giving only as much data as necessary. Personally I don't know why we force a binary decision on location tracking. If it were Google or Facebook doing it to me, iI would be distressed.
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by employee8000 10y ago
Both articles from 2014. Uber 2014 and Uber 2016 are different companies, probably 5x the number of employees and has matured substantially especially with employee conduct expectations. I would be shocked and angry if something like that h
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by employee8000 10y ago
Yes and as an employee looking from the inside out, I see how negative the press is, and before I joined Uber I was biased by the media coverage as well. But everything I've seen on the inside directly goes against the media coverage I
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by employee8000 10y ago
Uber employee here. We were told the reason to track up to 5 mins after the trip is for fraud, ex if a driver doesn't end the trip when she is supposed to. and to figure out where the pick up spots for each address are. A large buildin
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by employee8000 10y ago
Glaring typo on the first page.
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by employee8000 10y ago
This is an extremely interesting, non-silicon valley related article, and the comments and really informative as well. One of the best examples of why Hacker News is so great!
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by employee8000 10y ago
They most definitely do not have an anti-status quo bias. They have an anti-right bias.
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by employee8000 10y ago
My point is that you can force any argument you want to fit your own narrative. So out of thin air you can pull whatever you want and spin it so that it's some form of oppression of the rich on the poor. To blame parking spaces for rai
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by employee8000 10y ago
Then poverty activists will vilify you for making it too expensive for poor people to shop at your store. There are so many factions that will attack you for doing something, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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by employee8000 10y ago
I'm getting really sick of these media companies pushing their anti-rich agenda. Blaming rich people for parking that causes costs to rise for poor people is just insulting. I didn't believe in much liberal bias in the media until
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by employee8000 10y ago
Congnitive dissonance at its finest. Thank you for this.
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by employee8000 10y ago
You're reading the headlines but not understanding the details of the cases. Uber is not stupid, they know they need a healthy two-way marketplace in order to have a thriving company. They can't piss off drivers and expect to stay

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