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That is really intermittent for me. When I first started using Google now, I got them. These days, it only shows destinations I frequently travel to.

I agree completely, there are so many great features I think they could have added instead of changing the interface.

1.) Send directions to a mobile device. There are many times where I search for directions or map out an alternate route on my desktop. The only way I can access those directions is to email it to myself then open the email on the mobile device. Why not just store the data and let the user retrieve it on their mobile device?

2.) Better accuracy of property in rural/suburban areas. It's odd to say this but Bing Maps is actually much more accurate in rural areas.

3.) More fine grained control over street view placement.

4.) Offline maps! Not everywhere has good cell coverage.

If you choose your tools based on the naming you're going to have very few left to work with.

Yes, this occurred at many law schools, http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/ , has been covering this for many years now

Absolutely, I do not understand the obsession with tech companies centralizing in a few major cities. There are many beautiful, walkable cities in decline around the country. Each of these cities would make excellent places to live with significantly lower costs of living.

Kind of like how independent rating agencies were performing due diligence and properly rating securities before the mortgage crisis right?

I do not work at Google myself but I have friends and family who do work there. I don't think Google employees are immune from irrationally using random tools, but that's just my anecdotal observation.

HTTP GET of https://rawgit.com/kimmobrunfeldt/progressbar.js/master/dist... is throwing a 503

Yup, I remember that clearly since I got my first job right after that dot com bust. It led to a mass exodus of the people who were in it for the money.

I know..

I've been a Snowden supporter but this is the kind of information that gets people killed. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with this. He proved his point a long time ago is this really necessary?

For banks... we're discussing short-term real estate rentals.

Banks shouldn't be held accountable for illegal activity that occurs on their platform unless they are complicit in the activity neither should AirBnB. If the government comes to AirBnB or a Bank with evidence of criminal activity they should then have act but neither should be in the business of policing on behalf of the government.

I would agree with AirBnB having to be audited so that the gov't could do the policing but that's about it.

I'm not saying your solution wouldn't work, I'm saying that any implementation of your solution would be an unreasonable burden. AirBnB is not a real estate agent and does not act as one, there are no laws against them listing properties nor should their be.

I believe it isn't insurmountable but any possible solution would be unreasonable. You're asking for a system to be put in place but you have no ideas regarding implementation. If you think about the problem you'll realize how ridiculous any solutions would be. The biggest problem is verification of complaints, how do you do that?

I think the bigger problem is that it would allow competitors or just people who are assholes to file unfounded complaints. I don't think much good would come of such a system.

That is totally anecdotal, there is zero evidence that their emphasis on culture had anything to do with their success. Don't get caught up in cargo cults.

> Why? The tech world, like any other business place, is a mixture of people with different attitudes and personalities. If you clearly would have a personality clash with someone, why would it be worth hiring them?

Easy, because they have the knowledge and experience you need for the job. If you're a professional you'll find a way to work with anyone. Yes, you'll have personality clashes from time to time but I have yet to work at a place where that didn't happen.

Please don't, I've worked at these kinds of companies. It's creepy as hell and will drive away good employees who just aren't willing to buy into the nonsense.

As long as you have massive amounts of money you'll always be relevant.

The articles don't really disagree with each other but let's assume they do. You realize that differing opinions are a sign you're probably reading a good source of information right?

With #22 I really believe that you should be careful. Introverts can easily be confused as anti-social. Now if they're a dick to everyone for no reason that's a different story.

I once worked at a startup that burned through 3x that in about six months. 7.5m in six months is entirely possible.

It's pretty accurate for most software engineering roles out there. You whiteboard code to solve theoretical problems with algorithms you learned in college. The real job typically involves trying to get code from various languages, frameworks and platforms to work together. There may be one or two times where you actually use some obscure algorithm but that's it.

1.) You're assuming that the script was running on a vhost, we don't know.

2.) Even if the script is running in a vhost, if a listening port is specified but not an IP address the SERVER_NAME will be the IP of whatever the interface the http connection came from was.

No, there are several $_SERVER variables available to all php applications. The two relevant ones in this case would be HTTP_HOST and SERVER_ADDR, most likely the author of the application was leaking one of those in his application.

Facebook already tried something like this when they purchased Karma and it didn't work out too well.

I really hate to defend payday lenders but payday loans are VERY high risk. Everyone always hears about the poor person who paid $3900 in interest on a $700 loan but no one ever hears about the eight other people who took out $500 loans then never paid them back. I'm not sure a non-profit org would do well in this sector, it's not for the faint of heart.

agreed.

That doesn't mean it makes sense, for instance someone down voted every one of my comments. Being mad about it would be just as illogical.