cpher

Welcome to Chicago. I've lived here 15+ years, and Illinois most of my life. And I still hate winter LOL.

I live on the southside and I don't hear anyone calling it Chiraq.

Wow, this looks great! My older 9 and 8 year-old girls will love this. I agree with the comments below about variables and conditional logic, which might be tough for kids in the 3-4th grade range. Anyway, good luck. Looking forward to the release.

Yes, I was out of line in this context to drop the f-bomb on you. I apologize. Also, it was not done re: racial insensitivity. It's more of a local thing, and it won't translate to this forum. I'm sorry.

thank you, well explained.

Yuri, after seeing these comments, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I'm not sorry for being angry, but I'm sorry for getting personal. I'm sure you're needing some help with something local to your community, unless you want to start a thread of how to help kids on the south side of Chicago get into this community.

Give me your honest opinion: to what degree am I racist if : 1) the Uber pulling up is an obvious gangbanger 2) If I refuse the driver for whatever reasons Uber lists when drivers pull up.

I'm going to assume your objection is to #1. If so, do you have any fucking idea how institutionalized racism is in Chicago, especially with CPD? Even sane white folks know this. There are mostly good apples, but some bad ones, and we don't need to be a part of any dragnet.

Are you really that naive to think gangbangers and drug dealers don't use ride-sharing programs and exploit it to their advantage? Every system will be exploited. If you dare live in the environment, you might experience it.

I would even go one step further. Certainly less than felons. For some reason in Chicago, I at least feel "safer" in a taxi because of the screaming decals and colors of the car.

I had an Uber from the southside to Midway, and I felt like just getting into his car I was being set up in a sting operation. I (white guy) shrunk down in the back seat the entire time. The dude was nice, but holy shit what does CPD think when white guys get in the backs of gangbanger's cars (yes, my driver was nice but sketchy, and his car was exactly the mid-90s low-riding Pontiac you see around here getting busted all the time). I felt like I was his "ride" while he circled the southside between drug pickups. It gave him an "out."

On the flip side, had an awesome middle aged white woman take us from A to B on the northside of Chicago. She was doing it as a part-timer and super nice.

I guess my point is that maybe with taxi companies you at least could/should have a hiring/interview process? I'll plead ignorance to the Uber/Lyft process, but is there even an interview? It's just hit or miss in Chicago.

This is awesome! Kudos to you and the team (I assume you had help?). Yeah, I'm sure the tie breaking procedures drove you crazy. Imagine the rules committee meetings when they discussed all of them. :) How did you manage the complexity of the rules in your mind? I'm curious as to how you went from rules => mental model/entities => code. Did you use a formal process?

Thanks for your insights. We're considering this in my current company and I assumed it would be tricky.

I'll clarify that my question is more related to a team of consultants, not necessarily a microISV. Also, what benefits have you seen from this effort? Could be direct financial gains, employee morale boost, anything!