105 karma · joined December 27, 2015
I don't necessarily agree with their arguments, but I also don't think Uber should get a "free ride".
Here is some context on how things worked thus far: Since Uber is not allowed to dispatch directly to independent drivers (see the ruling from 2015), they instead partnered with rental-car companies that employ the drivers. So in theory, Uber would dispatch a ride to one of their partners, who then dispatches it to one of their drivers. In practice, however, everything worked just as you know it from other countries, with the only difference being that Uber would send an email to the business owner containing two links: one to accept the ride and one to decline. Whenever the business owner clicks accept, the driver would get a text message with the approval. But at this time, he already would have accepted the ride in the app and be on his way. So effectively, the business owners had zero control.
It is no surprise that the Taxi companies are mad, because they are unable to compete under the current set of rules. In addition, Uber has heavily subsidized rides with discounts of up to 50% for multiple weeks and generous hourly guarantees for their partners.
- the mentioned RIOT OS (https://riot-os.org/)
- FreeRTOS (https://www.freertos.org/) and Amazon's version of it (https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/)
- Zephyr OS (https://www.zephyrproject.org/)
- MyNewt (https://mynewt.apache.org/)
- Mbed OS (https://os.mbed.com/)
and more... Makes it really hard to choose one!
As a developer myself, it is just annoying do deal with and just not scalable if you have to explain each user individually how to turn of these "optimizations" (if that's even possible).
> Truly a testament to the engineering that went into designing the 2009 Mac Pro.
I'm sorry but you can upgrade any computer from 2009 in exactly the same way. That's the beauty of using standards you know?
It takes me ~1h to listen trough all of the tracks posted on one day. And I'm not even listening the full length.
But honestly, the complete lack of stream customization is just sad for $1B startup that has been in the game since 2007.
It's not about "finding, sharing and curating" but to spam your stream with duplicate tracks.
Imagine an artist reposting his own tracks. Then his network does. As does his label. And his friend. And then all of them repost a playlist with this track on it. Yay!
Please give us an option to hide them...