It should be pretty easy to filter out, given that there will be a very strong correlation between length of the drive and rating.

Passenger rating does matter when it comes to how fast you are getting your ride.

Uber drivers have fair wages, considering they are working in a saturated market and competing with people with the qualifications of a 16 years old teen.

There are a lot of people with these qualifications.

I believe you have to be 18 to be an uber driver.

Correct. The 16 years old bit is for the driver license where, in north america, 16 is the minimal age to get it.

I think it has to do with the traditional app model slowly being phased out.

There is a huge saturation of apps on every major platform and it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way.

"it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way."

The problem isn't that it's harder. Harder just means it takes longer. The problem is that most founders and investors are just copying the same strategies that worked ten years ago for Facebook and Twitter. So most funded startups are just shutting down after 12 - 18 months with the investors losing all their money.

> So most funded startups are just shutting down after 12 - 18 months with the investors losing all their money.

Hasn't this been true since startups existed? Most startups fail, everyone knows that.

> Hasn't this been true since startups existed? Most startups fail, everyone knows that.

I think what's new is the string of high-profile companies who have raised lots of money, released a product, and then shut down only a few months later. (Peach, Meerkat, Talkshow, etc.)

And the Juicero effect.

Being phased out by what?

It's a long talk but

https://youtu.be/ci4kbCmEmOI

It's by James Whittaker. Basically people are downloading and using way less apps than a few years ago. Today to get the users to use something it has to be sortof built-in the ecosystem in an other way then simply forcing someone to go search for and download a specific app.

The platform building that functionality themselves. Vertical integration in the customer-facing direction. 90% of my apps are Google-made now.

Similarly, Apple News is pretty crappy, but I still check it now and then because its right there. That's a "pageview" that used to go to a "media company".

What does "functionality themselves" mean? If possible please elaborate a bit? TIA

I think he's referring to the platform itself providing most of the apps.

e.g. Google Play Music replaced spotify for me when I used android. It can now play podcasts (like Apple's podcasts app) and also recognize music playing (like Shazam). Google's Inbox replaced Dropbox's mailbox. Google Map has a lot of features I used to find in Waze, even some extra ones (like Timeline). etcetc

It reminds me of what Microsoft used to do: embrace, extend, extinguish.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish" was Microsoft's strategy for destroying open software interoperability standards. I understand what you're saying, but it's not nearly the same thing.

> It reminds me of what Microsoft used to do: embrace, extend, extinguish.

I guess they still do it on the enterprise level. But they have fallen behind in terms of consumer ecosystem.

I assume they mean most of the features that were once in separate apps are now built into the OS.

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It might seem like that now, but in hindsight the opportunities will be obvious. There were multiple search engines when Google came out and many social networking sites when Facebook came out. There are always opportunities, things just get harder. A lot of businesses seemed indestructible have collapsed, every major car manufacturer and wall st bank would have failed if they hadn't been bailed out in 2008. The same thing can happen to tech companies.

In the SEO world you used to be able to put a keyword on a page 1000 times and then make the text white with CSS and rank #1 and make bank, now that gets you penalized. Spamming backlinks used to work, now it gets your site de-indexed.

You have to have an edge that separates you from the competition if you want to succeed

Now you need 100 WordPress blogs on individual ipv4 addrs on SWIP'd blocks hosting AI-generated content about a keyword (which search engines can't distinguish from legit content) and have those rank well enough to get real SERP CTR so you can sell your eBook about how to get rich from the Internet (which is itself just generated from a Markov chain PHP script running against Wikipedia articles).

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The Internet has a lot of dead wood and garbage these days.

Doing any kind of business in non-USD currency is itself not a great move.

At least I'm pretty sure they (the cable companies) won't be able to use anything they got there in court.

But let's be real for a moment, that man, if he sues, will get absolutely nothing in return.

Still, it's about time Canada starts getting real laws.

This and the people held hostage without AC or water in a plane for 5 hours+ is a proof at how backward this country really is.

That's quite a bit of hyperbole to say those two cases represent a "backward country".

I think the issue will be if other telco's use the same process (this time staying within the bounds of their instructions) on other cases.

It represent a backward country as these cases should never have happened in the first place.

Also, the operation was lead by pretty much all of Canada's telcos. It's not an especially competitive market.

Two cases do not make a country.

You are right.

Maybe I'm biased and a tad emotional. I was expecting more from Canada.

When I was about 6 or 7 there was a complete section of my math textbook which contained informations and example on the BASIC language. We, of course, never read those chapters in class but I did anyways while bored with the actual stuff the teacher would say.

It would use a very simple and systematic flowchart representation to model control flow. The great thing about it is that once you understood < > = (also taught in the class) the whole program could be readable.

I think I was the only one to read it and pretty much got the feeling it wasn't important as nobody, even the teacher, payed any attention to it.

I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam. Presto: actual comprehension of a nontrivial problem space, real world documentation skills and no rote learning requirements.

> I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam

With programmable graphing calculator that's sorta possible. At least, I've done it a few times.

Alas, it was most often banned from exams because "I can't see what you have done there to get that answer".

Also, most of the class ended up using my program for a specific class of problems we had to do in maths. In retrospect, I probably caused some harm by getting my classmates to be that lazy during exams.

> I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam.

How do you have test cases without first solving a number of problems in the space without the program you are writing?

The teacher and the book would explain the case, and the teacher would take us through a few on the board.

> A lot of veggie imitation meats are low on fat and protein and extremely high on processed carbs.

Which makes them pretty bad, even worst for dieting.

That's a shame.

Curious, how do you normally figure out the phosphorus content ? Is there a guideline somewhere that gives you an adequate estimate ?

For many common food items, the USDA has a database of full nutrition information including phosphorus. This is a God send for me. https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list

Beyond thing I have few tricks to get a estimate but mostly for those things I don't know the numbers well, I eat in moderation.

I've met people that were scared of Square as it "didn't look like a genuine POS".

I guess using an iPad could make the consumer feel safer. Than again a "Pro" looking case for the Android tablet might also do the trick.

If I didn't know what Square was I'd be suspicious too.

Swiping your credit card into a dongle attached to the audio jack of an iPhone/iPad. Seems legit.

> Technically, for all or most of these purposes, an Android tablet would work equally well. But people still think "iPad" when a tablet is required.

I'm still waiting for an Android tablet that's as nice to use as an iPad.

For small business purposes, you're mostly in 1-2 apps all the time anyway, which look the same on Android and iOS.

We ran payments at our main front counter on a Samsung tablet and it was never an issue with our employees or customers. However, we had to retire it when Samsung stopped updating the OS and our payments vendor no longer supported our old version of Android. We now have an iPad there.

That's a shame.

I didn't think of that specific use-case (only one or two apps for the whole life-cycle of the unit).

I'm still curious to know if it would be cheaper to buy Android units anyways and replace them as their software becomes obsolete as compared to buying pricier iPads that will keep up longer with software updates. Just factoring the costs here, not the environmental impact obviously.

In general I noticed a shorter support period in the Android segment as compared to iOS (Excluding terrible cases such as OnePlus dropping support almost instantly).

So are you saying an Android device is or isn't a good alternative? They work just the same until they stop getting updated and have to be replaced with an iPad?