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(mithril.js author here) As far as I can tell, the main difference is this uses proxies to trigger side effects as opposed to virtual dom diffing. Perf wise, I like that people are…

There's many pockets in Toronto with high density of Chinese commerce, the area around Steeles east of the IBM campus is one. Pacific Mall mentioned in the article is only one of t…

No, it's operating profit.

That's a somewhat outdated narrative to still be parroting. Uber just got included into the SP 500. One of the pre-requisites for that is being profitable on a GAAP basis.

Uber has four office buildings in SF mission bay. One was never used, the other 3 were underutilized, so employees are going to be moved/consolidated into 2. These buildings also h…

Uber has several different APIs for users. A naive purist might think that's silly until you realize a rider is user, a driver is a user, a courier is a user, a restaurant owner is…

Adding my two cents of positivity: I love seeing language projects that implement their own compiler backends. There really aren't enough of these around. Anything that helps bridg…

I saw a video on YouTube recently from an independent content creator who went to look for these mythical sea nomads, and apparently what he found was that the idyllic scene of a r…

JS has two top level grammars, one defaults to loose mode and the other defaults to strict mode, among other nuances. Possibly the most devious nuance is whether the spec's appendi…

The "boring" way is go do some sales and get clients to pay for something, then scale up as cash flow increases. That way, if it doesn't work out, at worst you just lost time inste…

Small update: It's definitely not extensions, it's giving the same result on two different devices (mobile and laptop). I've narrowed it down to there being something going on w/ b…

I'm stumbling into this thread right after experiencing what appears to be a pretty catastrophic failure of Google's main product. As I write this, the search results for "Google s…

That's a strange way to frame it. Every skill is useful in some context. As a parent, I think a more productive way to think about it is to ask whether teaching kids anything is in…

The core principle is the same. How permutations are selected, of course, affects the performance and usability of the system. Uber's[0] implementation, for example, does some more…

Merge queues are, as the name implies, queues for pull requests/merges. They're kinda useless if your commit traffic is low (e.g. As a very simple example, if your CI takes 10 minu…

That's exactly right. Uber self driving was burning through the tune of billions of dollars a year when covid reduced revenue by the tune of 70%. Not exactly sustainable w/ only a …

The backstory that seems to have been forgotten here is that self driving cars are still a money bleeding endeavor. It's why Uber sold its own self driving division and it's someth…

Big tech companies have entire departments dedicated to this sort of engineering, usually developer platform/experience/productivity, or other similar infra/platform orgs. I'm an a…

I thought Uber rolled out upfront pricing some time last year, so drivers wouldn't feel compelled to be playing these games anymore.

(I'm a canadian citizen, born in South America) My two cents is US people are the ones who have an unusual take on the word "America". Outside the US, it's not very idiomatic to ca…

> "America" refers unambiguously to the United States of America When people say "Columbus discovered America", it most certainly is referring to the entire landmass and surroundin…

Tasmania and Frasier are islands, which would make Australia more of an archipelago, I think.

In many parts of the world, it is taught that Oceania is the continent. IMHO, saying that Australia is a continent comes with the problematic notion that its close-by neighbour New…

Oh, so you just object to the specific idiom I happened to use? Ok then. Just assume I meant to use one that doesn't trigger you but still conveys the intention I explained above. …

I think your thought experiment differs from the original topic in few different ways. For one, the person you were replying to isn't the CEO. A more accurate analogy might be draw…