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by pbreit 7y ago
China was 168 days so I agree and comment stands.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Dropping support is about as user-hostile as it gets. Once again, how can you ask/require users to expend precious limited energy to re-program just to stay in place? It's totally obnoxious and completely unnecessary.
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by pbreit 7y ago
I am flabbergasted every time I see a software project eschew backwards-compatibility. No one wants to spend energy re-programming to stay in place. Especially APIs.
754.
by pbreit 7y ago
No one wants to spend a ton of energy just to remain in place. I don't understand how software providers are so cavalier about eschewing backwards compatibility.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Crazy to think that Tesla will likely get a factory done in less than a year.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Surely you're not worried about airplane noise in a car factory?
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by pbreit 7y ago
As the poster above you wrote: 'East Europe wages' with 'West Europe capabilities' That is about as good as it gets. They probably got the land cheap and commitment to build at another record breaking pace.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Why is that?
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by pbreit 7y ago
Might be getting downvoted since Tesla generated $2b in cash flow past 12m months and has all time high cash on hand. And then the "relax" insult despite being dead wrong.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Slow to expand to other countries? I would say they are operating at lightspeed! Think for a moment the colossal effort involved in expanding a car company around the world. And not just a car company, but a direct-to-customer model with a
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by pbreit 7y ago
https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
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by pbreit 7y ago
Rough seas also prevented recovery of the substantially more expensive fairings.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Wut? The fairings are $6 million. Highly unlikely they spent even that much to develop a little engine and a boat with a net.
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by pbreit 7y ago
This doesn't make a ton of sense and the article is so poorly written it's hard to understand what's going on.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Uber's mature Rides businessee are very profitable. Sorry.
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by pbreit 7y ago
https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
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by pbreit 7y ago
Your impression is wrong. The core rides business is very profitable.
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by pbreit 7y ago
It's crazy that in 2019 investment banks are still using such a blunt instrument to manage shares becoming available for trading. It would be trivial to let insider shares trickle out for some period of time enabling insiders to moneti
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by pbreit 7y ago
The core business is very profitable. Loss-making is happening in their less mature product categories and expansion efforts.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Ebay does have a "RESTful" API: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/ebay-rest-landing... Definitely agree that the old SOAP API was/is horrific. But the XML is about as easy to work with as J
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by pbreit 7y ago
Has any web site been fined for not displaying the cookie notice?
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by pbreit 7y ago
Much of your post is wrong. Would need to evaluate the one-time charges to determine if they actually would be ongoing. Simply having some one-time charges doesn't mean they will necessarily be perpetual. In fact, the vast majority of
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by pbreit 7y ago
Polestar is a low volume experiment and not even available yet. Volvo is way behind.
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by pbreit 7y ago
Nokia, RIMM & Motorola had the same "advantage" in their day. It ends up actually being a disadvantage because they couldn't let go of their legacy know-how. Going from 0 to 1k is very difficult. Going from 1k to 30k, muc
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by pbreit 7y ago
I guess Hacker News is a little quirky like this. Your first comment seemed weirder.
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by pbreit 7y ago
This kind of stuff is my least favorite attribute of Python. Surely there must be a better way?
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by pbreit 7y ago
DHH really laid into Bark” this week: “ https://mobile.twitter.com/dhh/status/1189235145192157184
778.
by pbreit 7y ago
It's astounding to me that so many platforms/languages still have such mediocre http libraries. Surely basic http capabilities should be built-in or in standard libraries?
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by pbreit 7y ago
When did Gmail's ever-increasing storage allotment thing end?
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by pbreit 7y ago
That's...weird. Of all the boards Cook could serve on, or not on, he chooses to join a random Chinese business school? It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on because it seems completely unnecessary otherwise.

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