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by jowiar 12y ago
I think the failure mode is probably the most serious harm - even more than pricing. What service is the airline contractually / in the court of public opinion obligated to provide you in the case of weather?
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They're not really "selling you tickets" on specific flights. They're selling you the service of hauling you from from your starting point to your destination - possibly on the route planned, or possibly on other routes.
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by jowiar 12y ago
> It's very hard for me to imagine a contract that includes "once you get on the plane, you must not miss your connecting flight". Except that it basically says "Thou shalt not buy a ticket with the express intent of
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by jowiar 12y ago
But you have a near-full plane of passengers perfectly willing to pay $200 to fly from LAX to SFO - you're throwing away profit from all of them if you cut their fare because I'm competing for a different set of customers.
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by jowiar 12y ago
When you buy a ticket, you're entering into a contract with the airline. See pg. 11 here for the relevant bits: http://www.united.com/web/format/pdf/Contract_of_Carriage.pd...
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by jowiar 12y ago
The problem is that travel is a bit more complicated than sandwiches -- flight prices end up being set more by competition rather than cost of production. Let's say, per your model, you offering flights from SFO to PDX for $200, LAX to
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by jowiar 12y ago
To me, OOP is, first and foremost, about messages. Everything else is negotiable.
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Buzz is tired. Buzz is so tired of these moon-wisdom questions, nearly a half century of the same questions about feelings that leave him feeling inadequate. He is a man of science. Next time NASA should send up a poet
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by jowiar 12y ago
> The only real form of code reuse that OOP addresses is direct object inheritance. Not really, or at least, not with a well designed system. Give me a system with small, composable objects. I can reuse code by creating a new object for
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by jowiar 12y ago
Can random mutations make HIV more lethal? Sure. The argument here is that lethality makes HIV "less fit" from an evolutionary standpoint, which makes sense, as, given the means of transmission, killing the host isn't a parti
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by jowiar 12y ago
Just about every unit test suite I've seen includes a reimplementation of a typechecker.
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by jowiar 12y ago
To piggyback on what hadley said a bit, I find thinking of a data frame as a "collection of records", and a matrix as "two dimensional data" to be a bit better. One useful heuristic worth asking is "Does it make sen
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by jowiar 12y ago
Not the city - certainly nothing that's can be solved by city hall. But tech as a whole, and even moreso in SF specifically, is a pretty hostile-to-mental-health place to work. Everyone being shitty to themselves (and those around them
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by jowiar 12y ago
It doesn't shock me at all -- It's one of the reason's I got the hell out of SF, and I'm not going back. It's an effect of the monster we've created, the collateral damage of our industry that the lottery winne
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by jowiar 12y ago
Positional arguments are a big nono for me. When I read the code, there's too much overhead to knowing what things do. One of the nice things about HyperTalk is that it's a bit self describing. One of these three is entirely non-o
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by jowiar 12y ago
Excel, the most successful programming environment for non-programmers, is functional in nature, so I don't doubt that functional is the way to go. Elm's syntax leaves me a bit more skeptical, though.
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by jowiar 12y ago
Odersky's Coursera is excellent. For me, it was vital to jumping the gap from "Here is a language that gives you a million ways to solve problems" to "I want to express this particular concept, so I designed a language w
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by jowiar 12y ago
For me, callback hell is a code smell - it means that I'm thinking imperatively and not, umm, eventedly. The general fix is to call something a component - give it a name and such, and have it fire some events that something else shoul
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by jowiar 12y ago
Control - obviously not. But presumably when they're teaching Business 101 to a bunch of 20-something engineers, "How not to ruin your reputation in ten minutes" should be in the curriculum.
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by jowiar 12y ago
It's a few things. Sure -- I don't want to join this company, or partake in business with them in the future. But I also want to establish it as standard in this industry that doing what they did to you is unacceptable -- and that
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by jowiar 12y ago
> they can hire and fire you for any reason whenever they want Legally? Sure. Ethically? No. > I'm sure the founders feel it was a good business decision. The next founders who contemplate pulling a cowardly stunt like this shoul
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by jowiar 12y ago
Right now this company has set a standard such that I will refuse to work for any YC-backed startup without serious contractual protection.
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by jowiar 12y ago
> They withdrew an offer of employment. Doing this without compensation is ABSOLUTELY doing something wrong. Maybe not necessarily tortious, but certainly unethical and indicative of someone who should not be trusted in a business relati
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Or a prospective customer or prospective investor.
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by jowiar 12y ago
> I like the founders - they are good guys. No. They're not. You don't get to screw around with other people's lives and continue to possess the title of "good guy". If they were good guys, you would be receiving
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by jowiar 12y ago
I've bought a ton of tickets over the years on StubHub - almost all well below single-game market rate for the same seats (what the venue charges for the ticket directly). The original purchaser often bought a season ticket package and
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by jowiar 12y ago
When working with functional programming, thinking about "doing" is often the wrong approach, because "doing" is often tied to "change of state". Instead, think about translations/transformations from &quo
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by jowiar 12y ago
> those tests are consequential to the kids future Most of them aren't. Especially in college. > lets be real: they're probably not Welcome to the REAL problem in education. We fight wars over the right to education, and the
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by jowiar 12y ago
If I were a teacher/professor, the words "Will it be on the test" would be criterion for an an F, or a detention, or something along those lines. But somehow we've codified that mentality into law? Jesus. We've brok
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by jowiar 12y ago
For me, practical applications of math are about understanding how a system works. More often than not, it really doesn't matter what the exact number is that comes out the end (the precision is often beyond my ability to act), but rat

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