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When assets are sent over via dropbox, backlift compiles each source file into a separate js or css product. Then all files are concatenated and minified using the order from config.yml.
Does that answer the question, or am I missing something?
I'm not familiar with CanCan-- it looks very expressive. A role based system is a pretty significant departure from our current ACL per model approach. I think I need some more input, in the form of practical use cases where ACLs can't do the trick. I'm sure they exist, but we'd need to consider the added complexity of role based access and weigh that against the kinds of apps it would unlock.
Regardless I'll spend some more time looking into these libraries.
"Could you afford the kinds of fines that Mr. Warren was facing? If not, take your listing down."
This assumes that a majority of hosts are breaking the law. Yet early in the article the author claims:
"...he was breaking the law. And that law says you cannot rent out single-family homes or apartments, or rooms in them, for less than 30 days unless you are living in the home at the same time."
I've stayed at roughly a dozen AirBnB listings, and only once was the host not living in the home during my stay. In fact, as the article mentions, that's a big part of the AirBnB guest experience-- interacting with the hosts.
Perhaps the problem is that many hosts are treating their homes as small hotels, letting out all the rooms and moving themselves elsewhere. Curtailing this practice would avoid legal issues and improve the guest experience. A win-win if you ask me!
It's pretty clear to me that the folks that are suffering from über are the taxi dispatch companies. These companies lease out the cars for a daily fee, like 150 bucks per day. The driver can do whatever he wants as long as he pays that daily fee. The cab company pays insurance because they own the cabs. Cab drivers are essentially independent contractors. They start making money after they've covered the cab cost for the day.
So why should the cab companies care if a driver is using über? From what I've heard, when a dispatcher has a good order, like for a trip across town on a slow day, they'll ask for a cut. In other words the cab companies are supplementing their taxi rental service with a cut of the fares they dispatch. And as a cab driver, if you want to get good orders you have to stay on the dispatchers good side.
Über changes the balance of power. As more people use über, the drivers have to rely on the dispatchers less, and the tit-for-tat system is deflated. I think this class action suit is an attempt to retain the status quo by cab companies. Über shouldn't be responsible for insurance until they start owning their own cabs. If the cab companies have their way, both the drivers and passengers will suffer.
As for the todo example, I found it a bit convoluted, so I tried to create a minimal backbone app here:
https://github.com/backlift/backlift-templates/tree/master/m...
Doesn't IBM's Many Eyes deserve that title?
I believe that a common reason for changing direction early is that founders learn a lot about their problem in the first three months. Sometimes they learn that it's the wrong problem for them to tackle. It could still be a great business, but not a good fit for the founders. Prior research can reduce the chance of a "gotcha," but often you must interact with customers to really understand the problem. Yeah, customer dev techniques can speed this up, but it's a process that takes time regardless.
Oh yeah, that was me. FUUUUUUUUUUU
2) Not currently.
3) If you're starting a new app and you need a starting point you can do so by downloading a template. You can alternatively run "backlift init" with an existing project.
4) Not yet. We're thinking of creating a github project where devs can upload their own templates or tweak ours. Pulled templates will become available from the CLI. We don't have a specific timeline for this yet.
Why encourage women to start startups? 1) Because starting your own company is the hardest and potentially most rewarding career choice available and 2) Because women aren't doing it as frequently as men. It's that simple.