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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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Post by WendyTheWillow »

thrownblown wrote: post #25
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's "good" if you're enumerating a potential target! Otherwise, you typically either want to make your URLs intuitively discoverable or not discoverable at all. An incrementing ID like this is neither, so it sits in a weird middle ground that probably satisfies nobody (except those trying to get things done who don't care, I guess).

Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time. https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/

The incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.

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

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Post by ch4s3 »

polishdude20 wrote: post #20

"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 mo…

AirBnB is not the cause of housing scarcity, the under building of Hotels to meet short term stay demand, or the economic conditions that facilitate a lot of travel. If it weren't for AirBnB other players in the short term rental business would likely ave moved into the same niche.

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

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Post by echelon »

polishdude20 wrote: post #20

"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 mo…

> Sometimes, Brian, your mom is right.

I'm sure Brian's mom is happy she was wrong and doesn't share your negative assessment.

> Removing homes from the rental market, increasing housing prices. Encouraging more treatment of housing as an investment.

This is a policy failure. We need to build more housing. Zoning, taxes, and NIMBYism are to blame.

Supply and demand curves are the law of the land. Add more supply and the problem is solved.

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

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Post by maximinus_thrax »

Are there people who really think this is not a PR stunt? Pardon my cynicism but I call bullshit on all of this not being organized/orchestrated by publicist.

> It's wild (vulnerable, transparent, kind, generous, and humbling) for the CEO of a $60B company to welcome complete strangers into his home to host them – including cooking together and showing them the city – for a weekend.

This phrase is outright insulting in my view. Do you really think you will be in the company of a billionaire (and CEO of a PUBLIC company) without even basic vetting? Give me a break.

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

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Post by thimkerbell »

maximinus_thrax wrote: post #35

Are there people who really think this is not a PR stunt? Pardon my cynicism but I call bullshit on all of this not being organized/orchestrated by publicist. > It's wild (vulnerable, transparent, kind, generous, and humbling) for the CEO of a $60B company to welcome complete strangers into his home to host them – including cooking together and showing them the city – for a weekend. This phrase is outright insulting…

I did look for his airbnb listing at one point, after a previous broadcast that he was putting it up, and there was no way to book it. (I think not because it was already booked.)

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

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Post by londons_explore »

I would expect every CEO to use their companies products. Even if they have no use for the product/service, their time using the product has to pay off in terms of better understanding the difficulties/challenges faced by the real users.

Sure, they could pay a study group to do that. But doing it themselves will probably let them make better decisions overall.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

maximinus_thrax wrote: post #35

Are there people who really think this is not a PR stunt? Pardon my cynicism but I call bullshit on all of this not being organized/orchestrated by publicist. > It's wild (vulnerable, transparent, kind, generous, and humbling) for the CEO of a $60B company to welcome complete strangers into his home to host them – including cooking together and showing them the city – for a weekend. This phrase is outright insulting…

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

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Post by ric2b »

thrownblown wrote: post #25
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's "good" if you're enumerating a potential target! Otherwise, you typically either want to make your URLs intuitively discoverable or not discoverable at all. An incrementing ID like this is neither, so it sits in a weird middle ground that probably satisfies nobody (except those trying to get things done who don't care, I guess).

Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time. https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/

In the same way that squeezing on a hunk of metal that some may call a "trigger" can get you convicted for murder.
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