What's more. If you see their profile pic, you can image search google to check if that picture matches some social networks. Now you have phone->name identification.
I'm not a developer, so I can't argue with that :D Thank you for the comment. I thought you guys might like this blog post. I'm really curious what others have to say about this :D
One little secret of retail/sales industry is that everyone knows that best salespeople are pathological liars. So I really doubt that they will be out of job, being con artist is just a plus.
Oh yeah, just like it's an open secret that the best programmers are socially awkward, introverted nerds.... and all DJs are stupid, like athletes. ;-)
Or maybe we just confuse cliches with averages and averages with individuals.
It turns out that in my anecdotal experience, every sales book I read from 'the greatest' advocated an honest, sustainable approach to customer relationship, because trust and word of mouth get you much farther than any immediate 'win' on a deal. The matter of the fact is that you don't want to ever be the sole 'winner' of a deal, you want all parties to win: otherwise no one will want to deal with you anymore at some point. Business isn't about winning, not even about sole profit, it's about sustainable profit, and honest cooperation gets you there.
Which fits my personal work experience as well --worked at Esprit de Corp (retail clothes) when I was younger and was among the top sellers, always telling the truth to customers; e.g. "these pants don't fit you, sorry I don't have anything else, please do check back on us often". Note: this was the brand's policy as well, that satisfaction was the real product we were selling, even if it did not always translate into an immediate sale. In the long run, I'm positive the trust we built was a key factor to making this brand top 3 worldwide sustainably (as far as the frontend is concerned, quality/price and having great stores in every major commercial location being the other two).
In this particular brand and in many of our competition (Zara etc.), not only would "pathological lying" be frowned upon as you'd expect from most (normal) human beings, it would be just about the worst sales tactics, ever, if you wanted customers to be satisfied, thus come back for more (which is the bulk of your profit in volume retail).
I wasn't there to see how things went at Uber, but from what I heard/read, it's obvious their culture was everything but sustainable.
> One little secret of retail/sales industry is that everyone knows that best salespeople are pathological liars.
Is that really true? There's a pretty meaningful distinction between someone who lies all the time as part of their profession and someone who lies out of a compulsion. It seems like being unable to stop lying would be a handicap.
Most web pages have suboptimal designs and dependency downloads. This system speeds things up by changing the order of dependencies such that the pages can be rendered more quickly.
If you do it manually, you can generally do things that will speed things up more significantly, but that requires time, specialized knowledge, and attention to a not very glamorous area of web development.
An example might be an image that shows up on a hidden tab that does not have enough information in the html for the browser to understand it is not a required element for initial rendering. If the request for that image can be pushed to the time frame after the initial render the end user has a better experience.
When the web was limited to 28K speeds for a significant amount of the userbase people paid a lot more attention to these kinds of things. Now that a significant amount of end users have broadband speeds, web developers are more concerned about other things because some things as simple as leveraging a CDN and outputting appropriate cache control headers are enough optimization to provide adequate performance.
It's not clear on my initial read if this is a new rendering engine, a client side script, or a server side parser that re-shapes output, but the intention is obvious - download things in the right order to get the fastest page load times. I've done this kind of optimization before and it can make an enormous difference - especially with bandwidth challenged end users.
It changes the page fairly dramatically. Before rolling out a page, you run it through their parser, which creates skeletal html and a javascript stub which you serve in place of the original html.
Then, when this substituted page is loaded, their javascript rebuilds the original web page with calls to eval() and whatever.innerHTML, in a way that the dependencies are supposedly streamlined.
Your product targets other type of customer, but I want to share my chores I experienced. Supposedly I plan a trip across USA, by car, for example NY->LA. I don't have exact places at what date I will be at which city. I can approximate 600km-900km drive a day. If there would be application that showed the best hotel on path with driving instructions+reservation it would be godsent.
There's apps like Roadtrippers and Furkot that will show you lodging along your route (along with dining, attractions, etc), but I don't know any that actually handles booking/price comparison as well.
I used to drive truck with my stepfather (I'm serious) and something like that would have been amazing, especially when we had two days unexpectedly off and only 400 miles for the next trailer...
Incidentally, if you ever really want to see America, get a commercial license.
Right now we're focusing more on users who already know their destination and not on users with an open destination like in your case.
But this sounds like a pretty awesome product.
Ember is IMO second best at everything, which is pretty good for a fully integrated stack. If you don't have a very good idea of what you want to use for all the pieces of your app, you're working with a group of less experienced frontend developers, or you're on a project that's going to be maintained for a number of years by someone else, Ember is probably the best choice. Their project stewardship has been commendable.
