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Are you still only hiring Ruby on Rails devs?

Why would you continue to give airbnb your business, once experiencing something like that anyways?

> Think of it the other way around: how much per month is Google making by reading your email [...]

That is a really weird way to think about it. For all I may know, google may be earning a million dollar by selling my data ... does not make the alternative product worth the money google is making for me to pay to avoid it.

I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback

1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic.

2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback.

While 2.) is a not a reasonable expectation it is pretty simple to achieve 1.), by keeping emotions out of your feedback. For example I would just go with "The webservice is slow, could you take a look? It is affecting xyz".

>... i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive criticism

Tangential, do you not usually do that? why?

China/CCP doesn't care.

Interesting project, but why does an open source developer tool needs browser telemetry?

You should ask for telemetry permissions _before_ the process starts up (as you do for email address), and keep the default as "No", instead of start to send the data transparently unless non user friendly steps are taken by the user.

> Not sure how Brexit supporters feel about that.

Zuckerberg does not care.

I believe their point was that the "UX is good (conditions applied").

Also, If you have not tried, I'd recommend giving the (android) app a go, bias aside, its one of the smoothest look-to-book experience I've had.

My point about how do we define "benefit of UI and UX"? If the criteria is conversion/revenue/profit - as arguably it should be for a publicly trading business - Booking and Expedia are no slouches.

> Airbnb has the benefit of a much better UI and UX compared to several over hotel aggregators like booking.com

While AirBnB might be pleasing on the eyes, Booking's UI is optimised for conversion. The benefit of "better UI and UX" is arguable here if it does not result in more $ for the business. Specially if they want to compete in the public market.

Disclaimer - Ex-Booking.com employee

I believe the parent comment was regarding "Its actually about employee liquidity.. " part.

I hope you also periodically validate your backups with restoration as well - A backup is only good if it can be restored.

I am an Indian, lived in Western Europe for 2.5 years and recently moved back, and you have no idea what you are talking about. You are wrongly assuming the state of a nation as big and diverse as India, by the perspective of handful of people who chose to leave the country.

Its difficult to "guess" ahead of the fact how you are going to scale for the next 10x, because you need to know.

a.) Which component is going to start breaking, and that depends on the usage pattern.

b.) Which business/tech compromises are ok to make, and that depends on a.)

Generally speaking though, you'd try to benchmark the system to find the bottleneck component, and based on the nature of it, either try to throw more hardware (horizontal or vertical scaling) or optimize the software.

It depends on which personal, professional, social, ethical and legal boundaries you are willing to cross.

Bribing a foreign government bureaucrat is a "short cut", but it crosses many lines, that are not ok.

Spamming users after buying their email address, cross fewer such boundaries, cause much less harm, and could be argued as "working smarter".

Are you sure you have "no connection whatsoever" with them?

Thanks, Done.

Note: Please let me know if this is not suitable for this thread, and I'll delete this.

If you are open to BE devs in GMT +0530, I am currently on a break to take care of my aging/sick family, and looking for a parttime remote role.

Contact information on my profile page.

I read "make our money" to be "earn our salaries", ie their job is primarily involved with the "seams"

You are amusing yourself by assuming (without basis) that the resume would be binned.

Care to explain why do you think so?

Checkout https://github.com/containous/yaegi . Don't think its very mature though.

Thank you for VLC. It has literally been the only software that I've ever donated towards.

Prosperity vs survival

> I'm curious what the UX was ...

Check the link, it shows quite well.

> "... For example, if a system makes use of two independent components, each with an availability of 99.9%, the resulting system availability is >99.999% ... "

This does not seem correct.

How do you know this?

My previous job was in a European behemoth, and I really enjoyed their interview process (and later as an interviewer). Even though it was somewhat still based on Algo and DS, but none of them were obscure LC medium-Hard the focus was to understand the candidate's thought process.

It depends, In my last big company (>2000 tech + product), engineers would switch teams every 15 to 18 months on average. Ofcourse there were more desirable part of the organization, where switches would be much less.

I like the post, but would like the OP to do a recap after working 12/18 months or 2-3 teams in Uber. 1 month is too short of a time to have meaningful outlook of the current situation.