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ExactoKnighton Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

Uber has massive costs as it scales, but unlike Amazon that has fixed costs, Uber's problem is that it has massive VARIABLE COSTS in three areas: driver recruitment, local advertising and local regulation.

The work Uber needs to do to onboard a driver in Alberta, Canada is completely different from Ontario, Canada (e.g. drivers needing a commercial class 4 vs consumer class 5 license).

As a result, they are facing unique regulations that is making it difficult to automate the work that is being done in each local market.

ExactoKnighton Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

According to Uber, the engineer who was the target of the lawsuit developed a self-driving motorcycle way before he ever worked at Google.

So while Google/Waymo probably have a case, it's not black and white. A lot of techniques developed over years of research was probably stolen from Google, but the truth is Google does not have a monopoly on using LIDAR sensors to train self-driving cars.

ExactoKnighton Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

Was this actually said by someone on Uber's C-suite?

ExactoKnighton CIA malware and hacking tools

Conspiracy as Governance. Assange wrote a paper predicting this 10 years ago as his vision, and it's clearly coming true: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/want-know-julian-assanges-endg...

ExactoKnighton CIA malware and hacking tools

Is it really that bad?! The FBI took Apple to court because it couldn't crack its iPhones...

ExactoKnighton Ask HN: Is S3 down?

The biggest change heroku needs to make is support different regions.

ExactoKnighton Ask HN: Is S3 down?

They did it to their Google Analytics API. We spent four months building a dashboard off of it then Google fucking deprecated it. Thanks Google.

ExactoKnighton Ask HN: I work for consulting firm that's illegally moving bank code to GitHub

Let the hunt begin!

ExactoKnighton “Old” Food Reduces Lifespan

Does this explain our natural predilection for lamb over mutton?

ExactoKnighton Should I learn C++ or Python?

Can I scaffold CRUD together in Phoenix like I can in rails? How much "rougher" do you find the ecosystem and general process of writing apps?

ExactoKnighton Magic Leap said to be ‘doing 1,000 things badly’ after raising $1.4B

A Better Place was another massive, $1 billion example of such a failure. https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...

ExactoKnighton Magic Leap said to be ‘doing 1,000 things badly’ after raising $1.4B

Better than Google's never-delivers-on-its-hype machine. E.g. Google Fiber, Google Loon, Google Self-driving car....

ExactoKnighton Should I learn C++ or Python?

This is why Ruby on Rails is running circles around the Java projects.

ExactoKnighton Should I learn C++ or Python?

For five years Node has been excellently positioned to defeat Ruby on Rails as the goto framework of choice, but due to the community's fragmentation I still don't believe there is a web framework in the node ecosystem that is even close to being as complete, as handy, and as rapid for development as Ruby on Rails still is.

But I'm willing to stand corrected, because Node holds the capability to revolutionize writing single page web apps (SPA) the way rails did for database-backed server-side apps ten years ago.

(I.e. is there a Node SPA equivalent that can automagically build with a one line scaffold command what Rails did for CRUD?)