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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 b112 »

tootie wrote: post #52
Rebelgecko wrote: post #33

How much was his cleaning fee? I imagine Airbnb employees are very different hosts from the average one.

It's funny there's a spate of complaints about how fees have crept up to the point that AirBnB is not longer a deal, all the municipalities that have ruled against allowing them to operate outside hotel regulations and yet they also announced a massive increase in revenue in profits. I personally don't get this business at all. Staying in a stranger's house is even more disconcerting that renting out a house to stran…

It's not for me either. I have rented whole units, out of need(cost), but wouldn't want a room in a house.

Still, some people love this sort of random interaction. Hostels are popular in some crowds. And I remember, when biking across Canada, a random couple in their 60s stopped me, in Northern Ontario(very rural!) and asked me if I wanted to stay the night.

Part of me wondered if their very nice roast and potatoes, would be my last meal.

But they just were bored, and wanted to talk, and were just nice folks not afraid of strangers. Good people.

So some like it random. Enjoy divergent personalities.

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

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Post by omnimus »

tootie wrote: post #52
Rebelgecko wrote: post #33

How much was his cleaning fee? I imagine Airbnb employees are very different hosts from the average one.

It's funny there's a spate of complaints about how fees have crept up to the point that AirBnB is not longer a deal, all the municipalities that have ruled against allowing them to operate outside hotel regulations and yet they also announced a massive increase in revenue in profits. I personally don't get this business at all. Staying in a stranger's house is even more disconcerting that renting out a house to stran…

The business is exactly that. Ilegal hotels. Most airbnbs are flats/houses specifically for that. It allows individuals to be part of rental network without the pains of doing it proper.

I think their biggest issue now is that the renters got more greedy and airbnbs start to cost more than hotels. Which atleast around me didnt use to be the case.

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

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Post by anuraaga »

wilg wrote: 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.

I believe this convention was used widely outside of Rails too so it's less a Rails convention and more a late 90s early 2000s convention. Even now I suspect many articles with good SEO will give table creation SQL using auto increment instead of uuid so maybe just software convention.

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

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Post by wenebego »

wutwutwat wrote: post #55
dom96 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you come from a privileged background then what are you risking really? Maxed out credit cards can easily be repaid by your rich parents/uncles/whatever. Though perhaps there are things they risked that I am not familiar with.

Risk does not necessarily mean financial risk. There's a lot more being risked doing a startup than cash, and those things should be pretty obvious, though maybe not everyone sees them as risks. I can think of a few and I've never done a startup. Reputation, mental health, credibility, friends and business associates, future job prospects, legal risks, etc. Fuck up a startup bad enough and even if you have millions i…

Of all of the things you mentioned, rich people have much less risk comparatively than a poor person in the exact same situation

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

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Post by isleyaardvark »

wenebego wrote: post #64
wutwutwat wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Risk does not necessarily mean financial risk. There's a lot more being risked doing a startup than cash, and those things should be pretty obvious, though maybe not everyone sees them as risks. I can think of a few and I've never done a startup. Reputation, mental health, credibility, friends and business associates, future job prospects, legal risks, etc. Fuck up a startup bad enough and even if you have millions i…

Of all of the things you mentioned, rich people have much less risk comparatively than a poor person in the exact same situation

Or just a poor person in their daily life.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

elzbardico wrote: post #41
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…

And out of sheer coincidence, one of the guests is from the small founders club world. Small world indeed.

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

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Post by wutwutwat »

wenebego wrote: post #64
wutwutwat wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Risk does not necessarily mean financial risk. There's a lot more being risked doing a startup than cash, and those things should be pretty obvious, though maybe not everyone sees them as risks. I can think of a few and I've never done a startup. Reputation, mental health, credibility, friends and business associates, future job prospects, legal risks, etc. Fuck up a startup bad enough and even if you have millions i…

Of all of the things you mentioned, rich people have much less risk comparatively than a poor person in the exact same situation

Call me a dreamer but losing the things I mentioned is worse than losing money, which would be the same experience for both rich and poor people, since they have absolutely nothing to do with a number in a ledger.

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

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Post by Breza »

londons_explore wrote: post #38

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.

I completely agree with you. Too many CEOs and board members view their companies as numbers on a spreadsheet without understanding what they do in a practical sense or knowing what it's like to be a customer.
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