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Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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There’s no engineering analysis in this post, so those of us who were looking for that, let me save you the click

Be born to the right people and toe the party line. That’s what Brian’s story will show you. But that’s basically a cliche right now so I doubt you’re in any way surprised

Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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This article doesn’t make good on its claim to explain why this “Rails convention” is bad. It’s probably actually good. I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise. Rude, IMO.

It's pretty common outside of rails too, like https://facebook.com/4 Some main weaknesses, if I recall correctly, is that's incremental ids make scraping pretty easy, or guessing content outside of a URL given explicitly by the service (like here).

They also leak metrics (#of registered users)

Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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post #10
post #9

This article doesn’t make good on its claim to explain why this “Rails convention” is bad. It’s probably actually good. I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise. Rude, IMO.

It's pretty common outside of rails too, like https://facebook.com/4 Some main weaknesses, if I recall correctly, is that's incremental ids make scraping pretty easy, or guessing content outside of a URL given explicitly by the service (like here).

Also, competitors can analyze your growth more easily.

Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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Article: >It's (still) all about your users and customers > Brian volunteering to host and entertain total strangers represents the importance of placing your customer front-and-center at every company stage. Brian could be "beyond that." He's not. He wants to see the details of what being a host is like so he can improve his product. So much simping... a CEO of a small company worships at the altar of a CEO of a uni…

Agreed. It would certainly be more revealing to read an article from Brian Chesky about his experience as a guest, rather than someone else's experience as his guest. At the moment this has the sort of "house swap" TLC show vibe, but only half of it. It's missing the part where the rich guy sees the poor side of the coin.

Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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post #11

There’s no engineering analysis in this post, so those of us who were looking for that, let me save you the click Be born to the right people and toe the party line. That’s what Brian’s story will show you. But that’s basically a cliche right now so I doubt you’re in any way surprised

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Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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"If Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO at Airbnb, listened to his mom, Airbnb wouldn't exist today. Or at least according to her:

    "I told him it's a bad idea. I didn't think it was going to work, and I didn't really understand it. If he listened to me, Airbnb wouldn't be here now.""
I mean, in the end, isn't it turning out to be a bad idea? Removing homes from the rental market, increasing housing prices. Encouraging more treatment of housing as an investment.

Sometimes, Brian, your mom is right.

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