So I have to get this surgery done, my surgeon is a specialist in his field yet - 1. Did not realise he had not imaged my body before surgery. 2. Doesn't know enough about medication to care about any meds I'm taking, his words "I don't know about pharmaceuticals, go see the anaesthetist" 3. His staff sent me to the wrong pre-operative exam room (and doctor) 4. Doesn't read medical histories before seeing the patients so he forgot what side he needs to do surgery on. 5. Wanted to assure me for 5 minutes that I don't need to read the consent form written for patients (which is literally written for patients to read before they sign) 6. Records notes on a tape dictophone (and I assume gets someone else to type it up for him) 7. Is a dick. However supposed to be one of the best in his field. On the up side I got to have some flirt filled time with the Radiographer and pathologist when I was getting my x-rays and blood taken.
The medical field's compartmentalisation and poor technological acceptance is so astounding for me coming from a position where I would be doing all these things in one day and expected to write it up and be paid 1/10th for doing.
I had a poor surgeon make mincemeat of me about 10 years ago. Every time it failed to resolve the problem I went back to him because after all, he was familiar with my case (and I was doped to the gills on pain meds). The scars (and resulting anatomical difficulty) have just started to heal in the past year or so.
Which brings their running tally to the following(With help from WindUpBird and VaugelyWeird, via twitter):
- Poaching ~50 CMU roboticists during a collaboration,
- Straight-up no-nonsense corp warfare on Lyft,
- Claiming they're not a transport service company despite the fact that it's their entire business model
- Policies that hurt drivers, including shifting all the cost and culpability onto them
- This shady bullshit
- The shady bullshit that goes along with this article, which is straight up ignoring tax laws
- Openly ignoring the law in any place where their service isn't legal to operate to gain a competitive advantage over competitors who refuse to break the law
- Essentially declaring themselves immune to anti-discrimination laws
- Their CEO getting caught sponsoring conventions on militarizing the police
- Attacking journalists and publically announcing they wanted to do so on an almost industrial scale(To a room full of journalists, no less)
- Actively rejecting any culpability if their drivers commit crimes while on duty
- Touting their criminal background checks as best in business when they're so laughable(or possibly entirely absent) that they let people on parole through despite their "no criminal records" policy
- Followed by pulling out of the entire state of Kansas when they tried to hold them to an actual standard for background checks - one they claimed they already passed)
- Obfuscating saftey statistics
- Deliberate misuse of passenger data(not just for business purposes, but also for entertainment)
- Pissweak data security, at least for things that aren't potential evidence that they're breaking the law or refusing to pay taxes
- Actively attempting to sabotage competing services
- Attempting to abuse the patent system - Or let's call it by an accurate name, attempted patent trolling - by attempting to patent variable pricing
- Price gouging during crises(which, ironically, taxi regs specifically prevent)
- Attempting to manipulate lawmaking to lock out the competition.
How the fuck are they even still a company after all this bullshit?
New York is terrible outside of Manhattan and the airports, however. But within Manhattan and the immediately neighboring areas, the cabs are pretty great.
London cabs are fucking amazing. Best in the world.
That's because London has the Knowledge. Although I dislike London as a city, I am rather jealous of their taxis,underground and nightbuses or well public transport that is active after 11.20pm.
How the fuck are they even still a company after all this bullshit?
It's a testament to just how terrible cabs are outside of a vanishingly small number of cities.
Oh no, I don't mean like that - People will just about justify anything short of murder if it means they'll get something just a little bit cheaper. That said, they're still shadier than the cheapest, shittiest cab company here, and that's really saying something.
I mean - how have they not been sued and/or arrested out of existence yet?
Despite all the bullshit regarding Uber, I will still use them because pretty much any alternative is sufficiently bad to justify my decision.
We've only got Uber here, so I'm not able to tell, but are lyft and the other marginally better rideshare companies really that bad? I'd think they couldn't be as rough as the Taxis, at least.
Singapore cabs are really really great too. Not as good as London, but they're so cheap they're basically free.
Hmm, I prefer the Singapore cabs, but it depends on which London taxi you're talking about, the traditional black cab that costs like 20 pounds or the minicabs? I like the London cab but it is orders of magnitude more expensive than what I expected.
Which brings their running tally to the following(With help from WindUpBird and VaugelyWeird, via twitter):
- Poaching ~50 CMU roboticists during a collaboration,
- Straight-up no-nonsense corp warfare on Lyft,
- Claiming they're not a transport service company despite the fact that it's their entire business model
- Policies that hurt drivers, including shifting all the cost and culpability onto them
- This shady bullshit
- The shady bullshit that goes along with this article, which is straight up ignoring tax laws
- Openly ignoring the law in any place where their service isn't legal to operate to gain a competitive advantage over competitors who refuse to break the law
- Essentially declaring themselves immune to anti-discrimination laws
- Their CEO getting caught sponsoring conventions on militarizing the police
- Attacking journalists and publically announcing they wanted to do so on an almost industrial scale(To a room full of journalists, no less)
- Actively rejecting any culpability if their drivers commit crimes while on duty
- Touting their criminal background checks as best in business when they're so laughable(or possibly entirely absent) that they let people on parole through despite their "no criminal records" policy
- Followed by pulling out of the entire state of Kansas when they tried to hold them to an actual standard for background checks - one they claimed they already passed)
- Obfuscating saftey statistics
- Deliberate misuse of passenger data(not just for business purposes, but also for entertainment)
- Pissweak data security, at least for things that aren't potential evidence that they're breaking the law or refusing to pay taxes
- Actively attempting to sabotage competing services
- Attempting to abuse the patent system - Or let's call it by an accurate name, attempted patent trolling - by attempting to patent variable pricing
- Price gouging during crises(which, ironically, taxi regs specifically prevent)
- Attempting to manipulate lawmaking to lock out the competition.
How the fuck are they even still a company after all this bullshit?
Hay I chatted shit on them about the London cabbie, don't forget that. I mean thats the real deal there.
Hay I chatted shit on them about the London cabbie, don't forget that. I mean thats the real deal there.
I remember that too, don't worry. The only problem is that it's harder to tell the difference between black cabs being killed by Uber, and Black Cabs being killed by Cheaper Minicabs.
Coming through this thread, I saw the PHP hammer again, and you know what? I wouldn't mind having a hammer with two claw-ends, that would actually be pretty useful.
Coming through this thread, I saw the PHP hammer again, and you know what? I wouldn't mind having a hammer with two claw-ends, that would actually be pretty useful.
Hay I chatted shit on them about the London cabbie, don't forget that. I mean thats the real deal there.
I remember that too, don't worry. The only problem is that it's harder to tell the difference between black cabs being killed by Uber, and Black Cabs being killed by Cheaper Minicabs.
Yeah its a tricky one. I think they will always have a place in London, but outside of that they are fucked. Uber won't catch on in the UK for some reason, you don't talk to the bus driver or anyone else on the bus. Its too awkward, now place that in a car with a stranger. Fuck that noise I'd rather walk.
At the same time, if my high school had done something similar, I would have been very happy.
Graduation ceremonies take forever because every fucking family screams for a full minute when their kid's name is called. There are hundreds of kids, and literally no one else cares about any individual one.
Many schools have a "don't cheer until the end" rule. A subset of families will break that rule. If they had all just shut up, the horribly boring and hot affair would have been done easily an hour earlier.
Now, the charges are overboard and dickish, but if they had just been kicked out of the ceremony, that would have been 100% OK. As it stands, it's only about 40% OK. If racism is an element, then it's 0% OK, but I don't know if that's the case.
Yeah its a tricky one. I think they will always have a place in London, but outside of that they are fucked. Uber won't catch on in the UK for some reason, you don't talk to the bus driver or anyone else on the bus. Its too awkward, now place that in a car with a stranger. Fuck that noise I'd rather walk.
It varies here. They've caught on in a big way in Queensland, because our taxis are absurdly expensive, but they're MUCH less popular in the southern states, where taxis are much, much cheaper.
I got destroyed in my Google interview today but there is no way my interviewer is qualified to be interviewing anybody.
Went on for about 15 minutes forcing himself to make short talk by confirming everything in the written surveys. Literally he wanted to talk about my suburb and not knowing where it is.
During the actual question kept indicating as if there was a special programming technique of solving the question as if he was setting up a dynamic programming problem when it was actually just a brute force augmented by sorting. I am so sure he was looking to see if I could write a sorting algorithm but the way he ran it, he kept steering me away from the brute force starting. The dude then just stops it and talks about himself for the last 20 minutes.
Dude had no interest in running the interview and was having difficulty even following the format that he was trying to follow. I'm not as salty as someone who would lose an actual paying position.
It blows my mind. After the interview I finished the problem and optimised it beyond the parameters specified in about 20 minutes.
Sounds familiar, not from Google, but from other interviews I've had. There was a guy during a Microsoft interview who was like NOT convinced that I knew what I was doing during this question even though I had done the question literally the weekend before (also told him this). I explained what the algorithm was, and then I tried moving on to implement it, and hes like "Hold on, lets go back and go through some more examples". To be clear it was essentially a conversion question from base 10 to base 26 (it was basically turning a number into an Excel row). I realized I was running out of time but he was so insistent on going back and going through more examples even though I thought I had demonstrated the algorithm, then someone else came in to notify them that the next interviewer was waiting to interview and he's like "Oh man, these are some short interviews". So in the end all that was demonstrated was that I knew how to convert numbers, but I did zero coding which always looks horrible in an interview.
I've been told sometimes you need to be direct with people interviewing you and take control, but in an interview environment I'm really bad at doing this. Generally because I feel like I'm a "guest" and my instincts tell me not to be rude. But these days I do try and at least let them know I'd like to manage my time to the fullest.
Definitely be prepared for people to sound super uninterested in doing interviews. It's way less common at smaller companies, but at larger companies I feel like it crops up much more. Some people seem generally interested in finding good candidates but then others seem like they'd rather be shoveling shit than interviewing you. I imagine since bigger companies generally do tons of interviews people just get really burnt out on it.
EDIT: I also had a sort of hilarious interview just out of college with Amazon where this guy wanted me to design a chat system. I started out and was trying to keep it lean and fast and he keeps pushing me in a direction, and I humor him, and then he pushes me more in that direction. Finally we come up with a solution and he's like are you familiar with this design? I said no, and he said it's such and such (forget it now) and he's like "yeah it's a horrible design for a chat system" and I'm sitting there thinking why the fuck did you want me to give that as the answer? I didn't really think it was funny at the time but in retrospect it's kinda hilarious.
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1. Did not realise he had not imaged my body before surgery.
2. Doesn't know enough about medication to care about any meds I'm taking, his words "I don't know about pharmaceuticals, go see the anaesthetist"
3. His staff sent me to the wrong pre-operative exam room (and doctor)
4. Doesn't read medical histories before seeing the patients so he forgot what side he needs to do surgery on.
5. Wanted to assure me for 5 minutes that I don't need to read the consent form written for patients (which is literally written for patients to read before they sign)
6. Records notes on a tape dictophone (and I assume gets someone else to type it up for him)
7. Is a dick.
However supposed to be one of the best in his field.
On the up side I got to have some flirt filled time with the Radiographer and pathologist when I was getting my x-rays and blood taken.
The medical field's compartmentalisation and poor technological acceptance is so astounding for me coming from a position where I would be doing all these things in one day and expected to write it up and be paid 1/10th for doing.
Which brings their running tally to the following(With help from WindUpBird and VaugelyWeird, via twitter):
- Poaching ~50 CMU roboticists during a collaboration,
- Straight-up no-nonsense corp warfare on Lyft,
- Claiming they're not a transport service company despite the fact that it's their entire business model
- Policies that hurt drivers, including shifting all the cost and culpability onto them
- This shady bullshit
- The shady bullshit that goes along with this article, which is straight up ignoring tax laws
- Openly ignoring the law in any place where their service isn't legal to operate to gain a competitive advantage over competitors who refuse to break the law
- Essentially declaring themselves immune to anti-discrimination laws
- Their CEO getting caught sponsoring conventions on militarizing the police
- Attacking journalists and publically announcing they wanted to do so on an almost industrial scale(To a room full of journalists, no less)
- Actively rejecting any culpability if their drivers commit crimes while on duty
- Touting their criminal background checks as best in business when they're so laughable(or possibly entirely absent) that they let people on parole through despite their "no criminal records" policy
- Followed by pulling out of the entire state of Kansas when they tried to hold them to an actual standard for background checks - one they claimed they already passed)
- Obfuscating saftey statistics
- Deliberate misuse of passenger data(not just for business purposes, but also for entertainment)
- Pissweak data security, at least for things that aren't potential evidence that they're breaking the law or refusing to pay taxes
- Actively attempting to sabotage competing services
- Attempting to abuse the patent system - Or let's call it by an accurate name, attempted patent trolling - by attempting to patent variable pricing
- Price gouging during crises(which, ironically, taxi regs specifically prevent)
- Attempting to manipulate lawmaking to lock out the competition.
How the fuck are they even still a company after all this bullshit?
London cabs are fucking amazing. Best in the world.
I mean - how have they not been sued and/or arrested out of existence yet? We've only got Uber here, so I'm not able to tell, but are lyft and the other marginally better rideshare companies really that bad? I'd think they couldn't be as rough as the Taxis, at least.
I like the London cab but it is orders of magnitude more expensive than what I expected.
What. The. Shit.
Graduation ceremonies take forever because every fucking family screams for a full minute when their kid's name is called. There are hundreds of kids, and literally no one else cares about any individual one.
Many schools have a "don't cheer until the end" rule. A subset of families will break that rule. If they had all just shut up, the horribly boring and hot affair would have been done easily an hour earlier.
Now, the charges are overboard and dickish, but if they had just been kicked out of the ceremony, that would have been 100% OK. As it stands, it's only about 40% OK. If racism is an element, then it's 0% OK, but I don't know if that's the case.
Went on for about 15 minutes forcing himself to make short talk by confirming everything in the written surveys. Literally he wanted to talk about my suburb and not knowing where it is.
During the actual question kept indicating as if there was a special programming technique of solving the question as if he was setting up a dynamic programming problem when it was actually just a brute force augmented by sorting. I am so sure he was looking to see if I could write a sorting algorithm but the way he ran it, he kept steering me away from the brute force starting.
The dude then just stops it and talks about himself for the last 20 minutes.
Dude had no interest in running the interview and was having difficulty even following the format that he was trying to follow. I'm not as salty as someone who would lose an actual paying position.
It blows my mind. After the interview I finished the problem and optimised it beyond the parameters specified in about 20 minutes.
I've been told sometimes you need to be direct with people interviewing you and take control, but in an interview environment I'm really bad at doing this. Generally because I feel like I'm a "guest" and my instincts tell me not to be rude. But these days I do try and at least let them know I'd like to manage my time to the fullest.
Definitely be prepared for people to sound super uninterested in doing interviews. It's way less common at smaller companies, but at larger companies I feel like it crops up much more. Some people seem generally interested in finding good candidates but then others seem like they'd rather be shoveling shit than interviewing you. I imagine since bigger companies generally do tons of interviews people just get really burnt out on it.
EDIT: I also had a sort of hilarious interview just out of college with Amazon where this guy wanted me to design a chat system. I started out and was trying to keep it lean and fast and he keeps pushing me in a direction, and I humor him, and then he pushes me more in that direction. Finally we come up with a solution and he's like are you familiar with this design? I said no, and he said it's such and such (forget it now) and he's like "yeah it's a horrible design for a chat system" and I'm sitting there thinking why the fuck did you want me to give that as the answer? I didn't really think it was funny at the time but in retrospect it's kinda hilarious.