> So how would you push the prices even lower than UberPool?
By exploiting drivers harder?
But this sentence drove home the value of this article to me:
> (Special thanks to Chris Liu collaborating on these great mockups that really make the discussion in this essay pop!)
Those are not great mockups. They are Waze or Google Maps screenshots with an ad pasted onto them. If you're that addicted to hyperbole, your article should probably be taken with more than a grain of salt.
What’s preventing this from happening? Nothing, clearly, devs just don’t implement it because they don’t know about it, and they don’t know about it because they’re busy learning about or implementing something else. How would you universally communicate to everybody that this is now a thing? How long will it take you to fix 90% of the forms out there that were set-and-forget five years ago?
Besides, for most it’s easier to use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there (of course, often enough, they have the non completed form anyway…)
After recent story about github ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me. And even before, there is no way I am allowing any site to access may date of birth (despite it being fake one anyway)
And going back to "autocomplete" - it looks that browsers "know better" than developers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...
I can't see why there isn't an standard semantic web standard for this. We shoukd standardise how common fields should be named and their datatypes set once and for all. Example: set on a field for month AND a field for day. No more MM/DD vs DD/MM issues. One-click and it's unambiguously filled by the browser. Seriously, what's preventing this from happening?
It's not just limited to Safari. Any and every date picker that doesn't allow text input of the date is ridiculous, those of you that design these things that call yourselves designers should find a new career path, I recommend selling cologne out of your trunk at a gas station, and if you're involved in this blatant and hostile devolution of interface I hate your guts. This particular one is my number one hated trend in UX, by a high margin. It is the most absurd set of design decisions I have ever seen, I can't see how it would not be malicious, it shows disdain for your users and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Fix this one and then we can talk about the others.
Quora always had reputation for being shit but I am impressed by how terrible that page is. I mean there are only two 2 types of answers there: "Window$ is BAD" and stuff that looks like generated by GPT-3( or straight up from those infamous "recipe sites" a.k.a. SEO farms).
The upside is that almost everything is run by people who are not old, hence not stuck in the past. Also, gravitate towards hiring instead of famity ties, and towards horizontal growth instead of forever keeping a single store or eatery.