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I was lucky enough to meet Curtis last year at Uber HQ. Awesome dude, incredibly smart. His Node talk from 2011 was a big contributing factor to me learning node.js. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jups7FveC1E

Edit: And yes, God Mode was for developers. The media should chill and learn to nerd out every once in a while...

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God mode existing wasn't the problem. Access to it in production was... Why did managers have access?

I don't understand how you would optimize routing/matching algorithms if you didn't have a visualization of all the trips/cars in the city. As a entry-level engineer.

Maybe it shouldn't have been tied to PII, but on the other hand there are some wins that you miss out on if you don't. (IIRC someone said that pairing women with women whenever possible increases overall rider engagement?)

My assumption is that Uber became too big too fast.

> pairing women with women whenever possible increases overall rider engagement

I'd fear for the driver's safety if this is true and this arrangement became public. Whoever thinks this is a good idea?

FWIW, here's a related data point:

> One in every 10 Lyft ride matches passengers with friends in common, according to Lyft.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lyft-launches-profi...

There is absolutely no need to have god mode for developers. Develop your privacy sensitive product on a need to know princinple.

You know, we still write lots of stuff in Node (and Python and Go). A bunch of the stuff we are working on can be found on our GH page https://github.com/uber

This talk is great -- I'm re-watching now!

Anyone have other similar videos? It's always cool to hear the about others' systems and how they evolve

Followup: did you had god mode within WhatsApp too for devs?

No, just NSA Mode

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