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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by Filligree »

stevesimmons wrote: post #53

If Google Maps would like to hire me so the km/miles switch can remember I only ever want to see distances in km, my contact details are in my HN profile. I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps launched 20 years ago. That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users...

I could take a quick look, though I’m not so sure I’d even find the code.

Your comment does not constitute a bug report, however. At a minimum:

- Are you logged in or out?

- What browser?

- What country is your profile set to?

- What country are you sending requests from?

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by Nition »

carlmr wrote: post #149
b8 wrote: post #55

Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. did nothing before I reached out internally (unbanned by 1am the next day).

My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€. It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just f…

Reminds me of when someone links to a product on some (non-Amazon) website, I go there, it says "this is the US site, you should go to the [your country] site!", I click OK, and it takes me to the homepage.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by 0xTJ »

carlmr wrote: post #149
b8 wrote: post #55

Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. did nothing before I reached out internally (unbanned by 1am the next day).

My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€. It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just f…

It doesn't work in all cases, but I can often replace the .com with .ca. It doesn't guarantee availability, but can at least check if the same listing is available on the Canadian store.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by RedNifre »

Filligree wrote: post #151
stevesimmons wrote: post #53

If Google Maps would like to hire me so the km/miles switch can remember I only ever want to see distances in km, my contact details are in my HN profile. I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps launched 20 years ago. That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users...

I could take a quick look, though I’m not so sure I’d even find the code. Your comment does not constitute a bug report, however. At a minimum: - Are you logged in or out? - What browser? - What country is your profile set to? - What country are you sending requests from?

While you're at it, could you also change YouTube so that captions being on/off is a per-language thing and not a "The user turned off subtitles for language X, therefore it's the only they speak, therefore let's turn on subtitles for all other languages." thing? It's really annoying that whenever I watch a video that has a language different from the previous video I watched, the first thing I have to do is to turn off the captions.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by chupchap »

carlmr wrote: post #149
b8 wrote: post #55

Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. did nothing before I reached out internally (unbanned by 1am the next day).

My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€. It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just f…

It doesn't work that way. A link is to an ASIN (unique product in Amazon). The same product might have a different ASIN in a different region. The product description, title etc might vary.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by codingdave »

oasisaimlessly wrote: post #145
codingdave wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two types of law. Contracts are civil law. Breaking them does not break criminal law. Civil vs. criminal law has different procedures, different burdens of proof, and different potential consequences. When it comes to contracts, no, there are no "laws", there are agreements between parties that can be enforced if taken to court, and in that sense they are binding. But breaking them does not break any law...…

It's not that simple. https://www.parzfirm.com/blog/when-does-breach-of-contract-b... > When Does a Breach Become Criminal? > For a breach of contract to rise to the level of criminal activity, the act must involve elements of fraud, intent to deceive, or theft. These cases go beyond simple noncompliance with contractual terms—they involve behaviors that violate state or federal laws. Some scenarios where contract br…

> they involve behaviors that violate state or federal laws.

> elevate the breach to a criminal offense.

Sounds like it is that simple. If you break a criminal law, then it breaks the law. Otherwise, not.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by sebastiennight »

xp84 wrote: post #116
Twirrim wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also while you're there, if no car ever in the history of your app goes down the road at the speed limit ever it's a good indication you'll never be able to ever do it at that speed. e.g. small narrow single lane country roads which are only theoretically 60mph roads.

Imagine the data they must have on the speeds people actually drive on every mile of every road, they’d easily be able to warn you not that you’re “over the speed limit” as in driving 70 on the freeway, but more usefully, if you’re in the top X percentile of speeds usually or even currently driven, which actually is a decent measure of unsafe was and would also be a great predictor of likelihood to get a ticket.

With the data you're mentioning, it's probably just as easy to build an accident predictor model as well.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by worthless-trash »

EspadaV9 wrote: post #62
stevesimmons wrote: post #53

If Google Maps would like to hire me so the km/miles switch can remember I only ever want to see distances in km, my contact details are in my HN profile. I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps launched 20 years ago. That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users...

Wait, there's a setting for this? I've lived in Australia for over 16 years now but everything is still in miles instead of Kms and I have never been able to find a setting to change it (although it sounds like even if I did find itz it would be mostly useless).

Ive lived in Australia for 45 years, everything is in km.. never had to touch it for miles. However i did go to the US and it showed units in miles on my phone which made no sense.

In Gmaps, Tap your profile picture, then select "Settings" and "Distance units". Choose between "Automatic", "Kilometers", or "Miles".

Pick the units you want.

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