hoverkraft

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by hoverkraft 12y ago
I have a lot of family in France, and based on what I've heard from them, the flip-side of those kinds of employment protections is that employers become much more reluctant to hire people (especially young people and people considered
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by hoverkraft 12y ago
Collecting miles isn't necessarily focused on earning free flights. The tiered statuses offered by most airlines include a variety of other perks that can make them attractive, and that couldn't readily be achieved via lowest-bidd
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Airbnb will begin collecting occupancy taxes in San Francisco next month(techcrunch.com)
2 points by hoverkraft 12y ago|1 comments
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Collecting and Remitting Taxes in San Francisco(publicpolicy.airbnb.com)
1 points by hoverkraft 12y ago|0 comments
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The New Airbnb(airbnb.com)
126 points by hoverkraft 12y ago|126 comments
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
I disagree with this pretty strongly. Somebody posed a similar question in the blog comments, and I think I did a decent job of answering it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/#comment-13289
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Still not disabled! Although at this point we're so habituated to PRs as a team that in practice it never happens. We did finally disable force pushes to master, though. Don't miss those one bit.
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Yes, we're absolutely doing code reviews for each PR. Should have mentioned it in the post. Our general policy is to have engineers merge their own PRs, but only after at least 1-2 people have reviewed them (and obviously more for sens
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Like testing, PRs are one of those things that seems like it will slow you down, but once you learn how to use them they can actually increase velocity (among many other benefits). It's been awesome to watch how good people have gotten
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Testing at Airbnb(nerds.airbnb.com)
197 points by hoverkraft 13y ago|55 comments
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Youtube.com is down(cl.lou.io)
4 points by hoverkraft 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Really appreciate this perspective. Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs: "I'm trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people st
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Currently working with a Waterloo intern and I can personally attest that he is the bomb.
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New features for China in OSX Mavericks(imgur.com)
5 points by hoverkraft 13y ago|2 comments
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
This is so great. I submitted a ton of stuff despite having to type my username and email every time. Might be hard to scale, but there's definitely a lot of potential joy in this. Many of the winning words at the moment genuinely made
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Well done. Love the art!
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
I really dig the concept. Having seen the downsides of vagrant on a few projects, I'm definitely interested in the feasability of cloud-hosted dev environments. Virtualization on top of cloud servers could make this cheaper than runnin
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by hoverkraft 13y ago
Does this remind anyone else of the ill conceived Motorola Rokr? http://img.iguor.com/2012/11/112752-apple-ceo-jobs-introduce...
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
production: noun. 1 the action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured. I'd say if you make a factory that takes raw materials and creates a series of one-off items, that you are
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
I've thought about this, too. Certainly much communication on the modern internet is realtime, so arguably a protocol based on realtime communication makes more sense than a protocol conceived for asynchronous communication. A system that a
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Xkcd CDN down(xkcd.net)
1 points by hoverkraft 14y ago|0 comments
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
Several people have alluded to this outreach elsewhere in the thread. I'd certainly believe it. Any links/references on what these companies have offered?
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
Interesting point about public transportation -- by creating a private bus system, tech companies are actively suppressing demand for better public transport between SF and the valley.
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Diary: Google Invades(lrb.co.uk)
84 points by hoverkraft 14y ago|113 comments
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
That being said, you'd be amazed at how many ruby gems are required to run the average nuclear reactor.
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
One point nobody seems to have touched on: men should be just as pissed off about the "booth babe" thing as women. A company using this tactic is basically telling the straight men at a conference to think with their dicks, not their brains
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
I agree that it could have been phrased better (dorkitude's post seems to suggest a causal relationship) but I don't think that's what he was really saying. As people have observed elsewhere in this thread, there's a natural human tendency
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
I've been running into this problem while working through marketing docs/accelerator apps/etc. with a new startup. There's still a huge hole in collaborative document editing. Tools are either too simple to do this well (thinking of hackpad
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
"The neuroscience of [fill in the blank] — not saying this will all be non-legitimate, but that it’s a field where a lot of goofballs are right now". Love it.
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by hoverkraft 14y ago
What exactly is it about Instagram that requires excellent user privacy protection? It's twitter for photos. It never ceases to amaze me how much lip service people pay to the need for privacy on social networks that are fundamentally based

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