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This probably has something to do with their desire for IPO. However I don't even know how it will look like when Uber finally opens up their books. I'm only one data point but I get over half the invoices wrongly calculated by Uber since flat fare system started (down to the tax calculation), mostly in my favour, but still.

Again, I'm only one data point, but my usage of Expedia has exponentially fallen since the aforementioned CEO took over. This obviously not a decision to make Uber a better service. This is a bid to sell Uber to a bigger fool on the wall street.

I have no confidence in Travis-less Uber. The war with private car ownership is over. Private cars won.

Regarding your second point -- that also includes the fact that you cannot sue any of the React contributors, not just Facebook. If I have a pull request on React, I can copy everything you ever built on React, down to the interface. It doesn't matter how much I copy because you cannot sue me without losing license to the very thing you used to build it, and thereby not having right to build it in the first place. Read the agreement in full, till point (iii).

> (iii) against any party relating to the Software.

And it's still nowhere close to what I imagine Kalanick imagines. Short sighted investors will see Lyft, Ola, Grab, Didi as competitors. Kalanick will see private car ownership as competition. I have a feeling if he doesn't come back, Uber in it's current form is the best of it we will see. If Benchmark would have had 20% control over Facebook, it would be the best social network colleges ever had. Nothing more.

Women aren't interested in tech because they grow up with social blockers, such as his memo. That's the point everyone seems to miss. Imagine a girl interested in tech when only a handful of her peers understand her interest. Then, she reads such an article and bullshit social studies passed on as evidence and gets socialised that tech really isn't for women.

Until you remove social blockers that prevent women from entering tech, you cannot claim legitimacy of any social survey in regards to that. This letter belongs to a time when a generation of women are equally pushed to enter tech as men. Then we can debate whether it's their lack of interest of not.

Carnival Cinemas in India have a similar scheme called Moviecard. All you can watch, Monday through Thursday. It costs around the same as one movie ticket for the entire month. This seems similar.

I always thought the idea was to fill empty theatres with people over weekdays, and of course make money off of refreshments. I mean, they will only fill up seats that are unsold anyway, but with the pass they will at least have shot at selling food.

No. Just no. Charge a subscription if it's an ongoing service. If you're moving bits for me, running code on cloud for me on ongoing basis, charge me a subscription. If you gave me a binary to run, I pay you once. This is exactly why I shifted from Adobe to Affinity.

Comparing a pile of binary to Starbucks is less than stellar. Coffee is an ongoing service. You make coffee for me everyday, fresh. The cup does not last me years. There are a lot of things I pay for once in years, and it costs less than a fresh brew. A pen is a good example. A book is another. And frankly, a book is far more comparable to a copy of binary than Starbucks.

Unless the author buys a book and pays for it every month until he returns it, I won't take his word on selling binary. This advice will just lead to people reverse engineering your binaries and pirating it. Just ask Adobe.

No he should not. That letter was a disaster. While some of the points in that letter could have sparked valuable debate, one simply can't get away with a written claim that his coworkers are biologically incompetant to do their jobs.

Focussing on the negative gray color in between circles gives it away. Still requires extreme focus to figure out the spiral.

As far as I know, Uber does not take a cut on surge pricing. The extra money goes straight to the driver.

I think the reason is that music subscription services took off in last 2-3 years massively, and globally. Apple Music expanded to a good number of nations, so did Spotify and others. And so it has also become very easy for creators to put their music on those services. There are SaaS apps that put unlimited music on all platforms for artists for as little as $20 a year.

You don't need to partner with record label any more to be on iTunes, Apple Music, Pandora, Google Play, Spotify, etc. You need $20 a year. The goliath that SoundCloud was fighting killed itself.

As a creator, I know there are 10x more people listening on Apple and Spotify. There is simply very less reason to upload on SoundCloud except for community. And it is the community that they managed to piss off by partnering with the labels.

Due process, transparency, the option to overthrow the government. China has none of these. Hell, their government can ban the words "net neutrality" and "freedom" if they want to tomorrow, with no protest or recourse options. Very few countries have these kinds of constraints on companies.

I think the trust deficit towards Chinese companies is due to their government. The government can just force their companies to hand over all data. They already do for their own citizens.

It is borderline psychopathic to track down a user who gave you bad review and brick their device. It's also illegal.

People don't even spare Apple for their fuck ups. Who do they really think they are?

It's not so much the upload, but the fact that it will always be unclear (and dynamic) what this service will do with a particular LOC. You might store sensitive documents in Google Drive, but it is unlikely you will type something sensitive into Google Search. Because it is a smart autocomplete feature, there will always be lack of clarity of when they delete your files, if at all.

Github and PaaS do not have any direct benefit of storing my lines of code forever. There is no logical comprehension of doing so. If they are caught, they will lose customers forever. In a service like this, however, it can always be claimed that the storage was done in order to make the service smarter. Which would be true. But it would be dangerous.

It is also worthy to note that this is a live tool. With other services, one has a chance to clean their code before upload. With this, even playing around with an API with embedded keys in your code has already put you at risk.

Since this program uploads code to the cloud, it would be worthy to clarify if it cleans out strings before upload or not. Because if it does not, it is a serious concern as it puts secret keys in code in awful risk.

They also run a background process that needs to be manually killed to be able to uninstall. It feels like a quarantine. This is an editor plugin, is there really no simpler way to provide uninstall capability?

I think it is not too odd to inscribe "Captain's iPhone" on an iPhone instead of just "Captain's." Can't see why bell would be different.

If you have a 2015 rMBP, we have the same model. There is no additional glass on top of the LCD, which every unibody model always had. One can argue LCD itself is made of glass substrate, but that's about it and that's not what Apple meant by glass screen on unibody macs.

Poke your screen lightly and poke screen of any other macbook. You'll see by distortion on the screen that you directly poked the LCD.

I'm extremely put off by Apple line up getting frustratingly confusing. The devil is in the details here. There was a time, where you could simply trust that an Apple product is built like a tank, that a technology once introduced (like, say, glass screens, or force touch) will always at least be default in the upcoming models.

But it is frustrating that Apple started removing fundamental features in a random fashion, even from flagship products with no intimation of them. Retina Macbook Pro does not have a glass screen. Users did not realize that until the staingate issue cropped up. It feels even blowing air on the screen will pull off coating. In this iPad, they conveniently removed the lamination.

I cannot even imagine Apple doing that back in the day. Imagine a version of iPhone, let's call it 4E, which does not have 3G.

It feels like I have to do a spec comparison about everything before deciding which Apple product to buy. Because there is no knowing what they silently removed.

It's anecdotal. However, it should not be hard to test it out with 10 non-tech friends. I also don't recall having my credit card on file on any website that uses naked domain. That's pure correlation. Which goes on to show how valid any hard evidence on this issue would be.

Performing your own little user study is the best way to take a stance, I believe.

I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major "established" companies using www, people associate it with strength. I have learned it to be important in similar ways that a .com extension is.

If the site did not have www, most people assumed it is probably made by kids, who do not have www yet. See, most people do not understand that www is not a domain like .com which you have to buy. So for average joe consumer, it signals strength. For an enterprise customer, it probably does too. So unless your product is for savvy users or zen-like designers, I'd stick with www.

A lot of people think that naked domain is cleaner. It is actually not, since the average mind is conditioned to read www.x.com, and you have https://x.com. It's cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.

You cannot really go practical in AI without academic rigor. You can do recipes of what's already been done using a TensorFlow book, but that's how far one can go. If one is serious in getting in AI today, a great way to do is read the following books, in order:

1. AI: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.

2. Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio.

It is amazing how approachable both books are for beginners, but you will be diving a lot into academic stuff as you go along.

But you do want to work in a place where you get shot based on color of skin? You can see why making blanket statements based on a piece of news you read from another continent is not the right way to judge an entire country.

Besides, my recommendation was for conducting YC interviews, not exactly living there. A 2-day YC tour conducting interviews in Dubai would enable founders from 3 continents to participate more heavily.

Those restrictions do not apply in the business district, AFAIK. There is a lot of encapsulation that Dubai provides international businesses from their local restrictions.

If ease of attracting international founders is a concern, my recommendation would be Dubai. Unbelievable facilities which are turn key in their own business hub, a tax free environment to incorporate in, if it goes there. Foreigners can own property, which just makes sense for a future hub.

One of the easiest tourist visas to obtain for vast majority of nationalities, with cheap flights. Near EU, other Asian countries, and Africa. Thailand and Singapore could be other options, but they are far from EU.

Fairly disappointing list. No GC in hosting list, even with generous free tier on App Engine, Firebase and other services. No DigitalOcean. No Azure. On e-mail front, no SendGrid and Mailgun, even with their generous free tiers. No Cloudflare. CI as category is ignored. 1&1 makes it, but GoDaddy, Gandi, and others don't.

People generally tend to try and get same username on most websites they visit. Especially the ones using same pw everywhere. So in that sense email as UID ain't that bad.

$3B over the next five years. Rackspace was worth around $4.6B in August with assets of around $1.6B. Assuming that Snap would require as big an infrastructure as Rackspace, then purchasing Rackspace for $4.6B was surely a better deal, because that's the amount their GC + AWS + Raw Hardware bill would cost, if they decide to build their own infra. Given how much AWS was earning a year back while still being massively profitable, these services cost a few hundred million a year to run at worst.

I have a strong feeling that this has a lot to do with available human capital to build and sustain these services. It even took Rackspace years to have a "Cloud" offering and it was essentially Slicehost with blings.

Come to think of it, it is around $4 per user, per year. With the way the landscape is with everything shifting to (live) videos, it probably is not that much an expenditure. Especially given that Snap will have several times the users in next 5 years, so the cost will look even less. That, and inflation.

I might be missing something, but most of the critical code seems to be binary. It only supports two car models. So unless you own those two and are willing to let no-warranty indie code which you cannot see drive you around, this is a solid no-no.

I did the same thing. I have a 2015 MBP, and I plan to hold it at least till AppleCare expires and then see how's the landscape is. Having the 2015 model, I don't feel at all left out with this release. I think I have a better laptop that this release. They are still selling it on their website.

But I don't think it will be a just-buy-another-mac type of purchase when I'm out for my next machine.

This does not seem like a major announcement to me. They added a bar and touch ID. But they added force touch with taptic engine last year and it took 3 minutes to introduce.

Between this and Surface with Bash built in, it's the first time since Windows 98 that I can see myself using a Windows computer.

This machine is not pro, as in not for professionals. No self-respecting Musician, Artist, Writer, Programmer, Photographer, Sportsman, etc. can make their living on this. This is what you take to a coffee shop to check e-mail. Anything else requires a dongle. It doesn't "just work" if you need to plug in a series of cables first. That's how Windows laptops were handled. They needed drivers for anything meaningful, this needs dongles.

I need a laptop to create. I don't need a laptop that competes with a notepad on thickness and usefulness. It was all Steve Jobs. All of it.

When is 4mm thicker laptop less elegant than thinner laptop with 5 dongles? Only on paper.