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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, I get the insinuation and I'm responding to that: ignoring for a moment the thing about the proper definition of a ponzi scheme (sibling threads already go into that), the claim is more or less that Uber's business model ble
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by lhorie 5y ago
The 2B "loss" was a downswing of Didi stock, which Uber has a big stake on; AFAIK Uber didn't actually liquidate that position, so it's more of a paper money loss. See [0] As for "creative accounting", pretty m
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by lhorie 5y ago
No, according to the latest report, rides have been profitable[0] (@ +544M in the last quarter). Deliveries are still in the red, but only barely (@ -12M, up from -183M from previous quarter). "Losses" largely come from G&A&#x
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by lhorie 5y ago
Sure, but the original point wasn't about whether bottom line is red, it was about whether it's an investing ponzi scheme or an actual attempt at operating like a proper business. It may not be profitable on an absolute basis (man
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by lhorie 5y ago
That article supports exactly what I just said. > For the quarter ended Sept. 30, the company said it expects to report between a $25 million loss and a $25 million profit on an adjusted basis Today was its earnings call, where it report
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by lhorie 5y ago
You're parroting Kalanick's era stuff. Both of these companies have been chasing profitability since IPO and posted profits (on adjusted ebitda basis) this week, and are promising better results in Q4. My understanding is that var
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by lhorie 5y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, you should discuss medical interventions with your doctor, not internet strangers. I've only read a bit on the topic (I had a trans ex-co-worker who was an activist and I was curious about the moveme
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by lhorie 5y ago
Some context from the hiring side: not all employers can afford to pay top dollar for mid-senior level candidates, so the business proposition in those cases tend to be geared towards growth (i.e. either "grow the company and the emplo
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by lhorie 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I do interviewing for senior software engineer candidates at Uber) I'm gonna be blunt. Your pitch reads like a fresh-out-of-school student CV; all the stuff about soft skills and team growth can be omitted, a lot of it is
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by lhorie 5y ago
> This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. Come on now. I'm over in SF, but you know what app I can use to summon a taxi? T
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by lhorie 5y ago
Uber is basically shifting from a heavy NIH "build, don't buy" culture to a less insulated culture. This is manifesting at all levels, from more widespread adoption of AWS/GCP internally to seeking partnership deals (in
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by lhorie 5y ago
Reading between the the lines, it sounds like you are getting into disagreements with family and you feel that you "know better". There are a few things to consider: the first is that many things are not as black-and-white as you
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by lhorie 5y ago
> YouTube recommends creepy, addictive, unmoderated, content If we're comparing with Youtube, I can't help but think people aren't looking very hard. My kids' school can recommend dozens of places to get computer acti
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by lhorie 5y ago
I disagree. This comment seems to come from the idea that work defines you, but that doesn't generalize at all. Family and friends hearing that you work at FB will almost alway only think about the prestige/money angle. I work at
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by lhorie 5y ago
What you inject is up to you. In Angular.js you could inject setTimeout's interface. I've injected fetch (for automatic anti-CSRF header inclusion). Etc. Facades are good if you're not sure if the API/semantics are set i
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by lhorie 5y ago
The point is not so much how easy it is to mock, it's getting visibility into what should be mocked. Mocking moment.js with jest is relatively trivial, but your test is not going to warn you that your mock became inert if the impleme
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by lhorie 5y ago
> languages that could not easily do that (like Java) It's interesting that you bring up Java, which compiles things into class files. You can technically "mix and match" things there to achieve mocking semantics by carefu
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by lhorie 5y ago
You can mock injected entities in tests, instead of e.g. always connecting to the db
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by lhorie 5y ago
Generally speaking, if you get a W-2, you should pay taxes to the US, and if you get a T4, you should pay taxes to Canada. If you're living long term in Canada, your employer should have a tax entity in Canada and issue a T4. If you&#x
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, Google search uses AI, and developers use Google to find things, so technically you could say the vast majority of code is written with "AI help", but that's not exactly a noteworthy observation to make...
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by lhorie 5y ago
Personally, I see code as a fluid entity. If me spending a few minutes to find a way to unblock something that you claimed to "bring you to your knees on the zeroeth step" is a waste of time, then I guess you and I just have diffe
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by lhorie 5y ago
> check out the Web X-Ray repo < https://github.com/mozilla/goggles.mozilla.org/ >. Thanks for the example! Peeking a bit under the hood, it appears to be due to transitive dependencies referencing github u
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by lhorie 5y ago
To put it in perspective, 6k deaths in a year are about two orders of magnitude lower than covid deaths in 2020. Heart disease similarly claims some 600k+ lives every year; its death rates swing by more than 4 deaths/100,000 YoY.
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Pedestrian fatalities have increased by over 50% since 2010 It's a bit misleading to say that; you're not accounting for population growth, for one thing. According to https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/states&#x2
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, of course I'm going to see this from the lenses of my personal experience (which is that nasty non-reproducibility issues usually would only happen when someone takes over some internal project that had been sitting in a closet
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by lhorie 5y ago
> which to repeat, is something that happens all the time Are you sure this isn't just a problem in your organization? As I qualified, the issue you're describing was a real pain maybe two or three years ago, but not anymore IM
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by lhorie 5y ago
When you've got thousands of packages, I'll take a scanner over nothing. For a big ass monorepo like the one I maintain at work, it's a great tool. Snyk does report on vulnerabilities that don't necessarily affect your u
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by lhorie 5y ago
Committing node_modules and reproducibility are somewhat not orthogonal though. You can get reasonable degrees of reproducibility by choosing reasonable tools: Yarn lets you commit their binary and run that in the specified repo regardless
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by lhorie 5y ago
IMHO, the author is mostly reacting negatively to the price impact of two compounding issues that Uber/Lyft faced last year: the first is the out-of-whack supply/demand balance due to covid causing the current low supply of driver
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by lhorie 5y ago
Most airport roads predate Uber and often aren't physically designed to accommodate for the sorts of traffic volume they see after 20+ years in operation, so airports come up with all sorts of rules and compromises to try to avoid cong

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