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yeah, eric stepped down in 2011 and larry took over as CEO and from the inside it felt fine for a while. but larry definitely got disinterested after a few years and the company felt rudderless by like the end of 2014.

i keep thinking about this google arc. I was there for nearly a decade (at this point i've almost been gone for longer than I was there) and from the outside, the company is almost unrecognizable.

it is definitely not the company that it was pre 2010. from my lowly IC5 (when I left) position, it felt like something happened in 2014 or so that really put the company on a different track. eric had already left and the founders had started stepping back and the people left running the show were, not them. i guess they were able to maximize shareholder value. but it was clearly at the expense of something.

anyway, I dont have anything to say that hasn't been said more eloquently by ben. except, I saw this change too. and it bums me out because I got to see the place before.

why would you expect that?

I've been rejected from a few jobs that I've applied to at this point. honestly, this was the only time I can remember that it was an email, let alone an email from a no-reply address. every other time I've been passed on after interviews, the recruiter at least had the decency to call and tell me over the phone.

well, not having the courtesy to write from an address to which I could reply if I had any questions is disrespectful to the candidate.

I once got a rejection letter from a recruiter, complete with the boilerplate, "we'll keep you in mind for future positions" from a noreply@ email address.

honestly they probably have the 3d model made already as part of the design process.

eta: ope, I see someone beat me to the same comment.

The contractor badges at google were red until at least 2015. And as it was explained to me, it was not a coincidence.

her account is the only account we have. do you have any reason _not_ to take this at face value?

the first 30 seconds of the video says

> my coworkers have been getting random 15-min cal invites all day

> my work bff got a meeting 30 mins before I did and she got laid off

from the video, I got the impression that cloudflare has a pretty standard 3 month ramp up period which, for her, ended right about thanksgiving. so it's not 5 months with no sales, it's a little over a month. and that month has two (three) major holidays that knock out ~2 weeks. so 5 months is suddenly more like ~3 weeks.

and, if every 1:1 with a manager has been glowing and then you get fired 'for performance', there's been a massive failure somewhere.

exactly. and if the added burden of having to maintain (or more likely, just download) a version of ssh that supports dsa means that some piece of legacy hardware is no longer cost effective, then it's probably time to upgrade that legacy hardware.

and you (the general you) should probably be thanking the openssh folks for all the work they've done for the last 8+ years keeping the dsa code around which allowed you (the general you) to externalize that cost.

the x-32, the plane that was competing with the f-35 (neé x-35) in the joint strike fighter program looked _weird_; it looks like a pelican opening its mouth. I remember watching a documentary about the JSF where someone said that its looks definitely played a role in it not getting picked.

I love the super guppy. mentour now has an awesome video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLORhTRck0

the atl-98 carvair on the other hand ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Traders_Carvair

it's not flawless but, it _does_ have a better safety record.

I got a 10% raise and a few thousand dollars in a settlement because of this.

again, the ILS wasn't unavailable, but ATC for hundreds of miles had been planning on every plane taking the visual, with its reduced separation requirements. if a plane needs an approach with increased requirements, they need to tell ATC early so ATC can put them in their plan.

the flight plan doesn't have any bearing here. norcal approach isn't (and shouldn't be) expected to know the SOP's for every company in the world. the flight's clearance limit was to SFO and they were being given the approach that their requested airport was advertising.

> called them when they were back over the east coast?

depends on who they were on with when they found out SFO was advertising an approach they couldn't take. At the very least they could've told oakland center; that's who they would've been talking to before being transferred to norcal approach, and is probably the one sequencing a good chunk of those other planes coming in.

> How are they supposed to know that an ILS approach - a completely routine procedure - is not available?

it's not that the ILS wasn't available, it's that the atis would've said

"VISUAL APPROACH, RUNWAY 28L 28R IN USE"

and the lufthansa crew would say, "huh, we need something different than that". in aviation if you want something non standard, you need to let air traffic know so they can put you in their plan. If you don't tell them different, they're going to plan for you to do what's being advertised.

> What was SFO going to do if it clouded over, close the airport?

then SFO would've advertised the ILS (checks atis) like they're doing right now ...

it's not about arriving "on time", it's about telling approach what they needed early so approach can fit the request into their plan. and, at least according to the initial video, they didn't until they were being given vectors for the approach.

they were ready. "fly heading XXX, vectors for visual 28R", is them saying, "i'm ready for you to land". What norcal (not SFO) was not prepared to do was accommodate the extra wide gap that lufthansa's company policy would've required.

it was up to lufthansa to tell approach that they're not going to be able to accept the approach in use. It's being advertised on the atis that they would've been able to pick up in the air long before they got near the airport. (well, 10+ minutes before this interaction started anyway, they can probably get d-atis anywhere).

i'm sure it was said in the follow up video, but lufthansa knew what they were offering at SFO and if they needed something different they should've spoken up much sooner.

> it supports SMS!

and isn't RCS support coming too?

let's go flying

uber's bottom line ... as in what gets reported in the quarterly numbers. the tips absolutely do not go towards uber's income.

> The higher Uber is able to convince people to tip, the less they have to offer in wages to retain drivers.

this is unfounded speculation.

your complaint reads like you want to fault uber for not scamming the drivers. as someone else pointed out, after years of saying that uber would never be profitable it makes sense that there's some moving the goalposts here.

> I think this shows how the financial media can be disregarded

to be fair, the actual financial analysts have been very bullish on uber for a long time. the stock has been overweight or buy for most of its public history, at least by my recollection (I own a chunk of stock so i've been paying some attention).

it's on forums like this though, where folks are inserting their desire for uber to fail because they don't like the company or the (former) executives or whatever, that I hear the bankruptcy drum being beaten.

100% of those tips go to the driver, and not in some sort of scammy door dash way that means uber pays the driver less. so it's important to note that "tricking" people into tipping more doesn't help uber's bottom line.

you can go to nitter.net/$rest_of_the_url to get context without logging in.

it's proof they subsidized, past-test, 7 years ago.

its really weird to point to what uber did more than 7 years ago as non public company with no public reporting requirements, and try to use that to refute publicly reported numbers from today.

> IIRC Uber lost $2B on the Chinese marketing simply because of subsidies.

uber pulled out of china in 2016 ...

dickson also oversaw the illegal grounding of a pilot who was reporting safety issues at delta. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/delta...

> I am Mihai Parparita and can be reached at

oh man, mihai! his greasemonkey scripts made the internal version of gmail (caribou) usable back in the say.