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I wouldn't. There is no service that's being provided, but you will still see plenty of tip jars and a line item for tips if you pay by card. As a business you'd be foolish to not have that, as you see by other commenters they happily part with their money.

Same experience here on a MBP. Tried to switch a couple months ago and the fans run in overdrive.

Well, if (when?) uber/lyft enter the market, you probably already have their apps, so this is a non-issue.

For others, I think if you have competent product people, you'd limit registration to a phone number and offer apple/android pay. With iOS 12, for example, it would be so seamless since it can auto-fill confirmation codes. So all you'd have to do is put in your phone number and you're logged into a new account.

Ok, so if they rename it to 'lane guidance' or whatever, everything would be cool?

Regardless of what you think it means, this guy was likely smart enough to know what it is. It's not like it was a 90 year old driver who doesn't understand technology. Also, supposedly he was aware of issues at this particular spot. Therefore, the only logical explanation is that he passed out at the wheel, either due to a medical condition or sleep deprivation. Having said that, tesla should fix their collision detection and auto-braking systems.

A highway is a road. The context is quite clear since we're talking about the crash site.

Huh? Which developed countries don't have road markings on highways? Paint is just one aspect. There are also plenty of cracks and uneven pavement as you can see from the street view.

No real excuse for Tesla, but seriously why are our roads so bad. This is one of the wealthiest areas in the world and a busy stretch of road.

Pretty much all hotels in the city are around the Tenderloin. You can't really avoid it, it's in the heart of the city.

In SF you also get free transfers for 90 minutes which is a nice benefit. Lyft line / uber pool is closer to $6+ if you're going around the city, unless of course you only go 2 blocks.

If you're going somewhere for an appointment and can get back within 90 minutes it's $2.50 vs. over $12. The bus-only lanes are also beneficial if they exist on your route as traffic has gotten a lot worse, in part due to ridesharing. In addition to that, because traffic is horrible, line/pool rides take forever if you're going anywhere downtown during the day and the driver needs to pick up additional riders who aren't exactly along your route (even 1 block away can add 10 minutes). So if you are time-sensitive, you'll likely need a solo-ride which is more like $15+ one-way.

The big downside is obviously the poor experience with public transport... lots of homeless / crazy people taking free rides, dirty buses/trains, cramped spaces, too many stops, etc.

It baffles me why software companies spend so much money on leasing prime real estate in one of the most expensive markets, v.s. pursuing a more remote workforce strategy.

I'm obviously not in all those channels, more like 20-30. One issue is that channel discoverability is poor. Searching for the right channel is difficult or impossible, since search only looks at the actual name vs. also the description. So sometimes I just stay in channels so I don't forget about them or avoid spending extra effort trying to find them again. Also, grouping channels doesn't exist so you end up with a long list of channels, making it more difficult to navigate (only can split them between starred and non-starred but that's not sufficient). Another one is leaving `threads`, and cleaning up that all threads view is extremely cumbersome. There are many more issues but those are just some basic ones.

It's not all Slack's fault though, it's also partially the company's fault for trying to embrace Slack for everything.

Totally agree. I work for a 2000+ people company and we have over 2000 channels. Slack just doesn't work well for that size.

The problem with the pin is that you can easily see people entering them, and then you can easily get in. With TouchID and FaceID that part is a lot more difficult.

That would help with the unlock step, but then how do you interact with the phone? The touchscreen wont work well as you've said putting in the pin isn't easy.

Ticks all the checkboxes, except for the gender one.

At first glance I'm not a fan, but I'll give it some time. So much white space. I wish they give us a compact option.

I don't think raising the fares would have any impact in the drivers' desire to have a tip option. Tips are free money and widely acceptable in the US, so who wouldn't want that.

Since Uber lost a recent lawsuit wrt tipping, I've been on multiple rides where the driver has a tip jar. So I much prefer the in-app tipping compared to having a physical tip jar in the car.

I'm not a fan of Slack. I think it's way more distracting than useful. The biggest problem I think is that it doesn't really allow for async communication. If I have a question that I want to ask someone, but it's not urgent, there isn't really a way to do it. With the typical gmail setup, I have 2 options. Send an email for non-urgent. Or send a hangout message for urgent. Slack really needs something like this, a sort of silent direct message that doesn't disrupt the recipient.

Also, I hate the <person> joined / left messages. There are team-related channels that are so disruptive and useless that I'd like to silently leave without being judged, but I can't.

Lastly, I've yet to be in a channel that isn't overrun by giphy spam. I know this isn't directly Slack's fault and more a company culture issue, but Slack sure makes it easy to use distracting features, whether that's integrations like giphy, or reactions to messages, etc. I think the focus needs to be less on making Slack 'fun' to use, and more on improving communication.

I'd love to see their return customer number. If you hand out money, user acquisition if measured by signups is pretty meaningless.

I tried this site once and it was a disastrous experience. Their customer service is horrendous, and the complete opposite of Amazon. After that purchase it became pretty clear to me that Amazon has nothing to worry about.

This reminds me, I have around $100 in credits from 1 failed order because they messed up multiple times. Would be awesome if they sold Amazon gift cards.

I'd say yes. Had a 92 E class and it was one comfortable car.

Yeah, I personally didn't really get the point of this article.

You could view it as a very good thing that the company isn't keeping around potentially low performers purely because of tenure. Also, I highly doubt the person that got fired didn't know why, even if it wasn't explicitly stated.

Yeah, I don't get it either. The majority of what I've seen at my company is giphy spam in every channel. The vast majority of people constantly check slack for any giphy updates or other BS. Direct messages are distracting because they are intrusive even if they're not that important right now. The whole thing is anti-productivity masquerading as collaboration.

I get its uses, but I rarely see those in practice.

Exactly. I don't think it's a bad thing though. Just because you had an idea or built a MVP doesn't make you a good CEO.

Exactly this.

I've recently come across a lot of these very highly rated products (with thousands of reviews) and almost immediately you see many of the reviews saying "company gave me the product for free to write an honest and unbiased review."

To me, this completely invalidates the rating and I typically try to find a different product because it's too time consuming to try to find real reviews. On the other hand, 'stupid people' don't tip the scale like that and in some ways their reviews are useful because you can be sure those people were not 'paid'. Also, they may complain about something that isn't really a negative in general, or specifically to you, so you can use that to make your decision.