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Didn't notice earlier, but what has expired is only the posting the hiring is ongoing. Will have the posting corrected. Contact me directly (email in profile).

Well, while small, "do things that don't scale". We'll see what they figure out later on.

JetBrains, yes absolutely. YouTrack is not as popular as Jira but JetBrains' IDEs are very popular. TeamCity is also waaay better than Atlassian Bamboo and sells well in the enterprise.

You are correct that this is not only specific to AirBnB but the whole shared economy. However, things are not black and white and only time will tell how they will settle.

From the article:

"The law I'm using is that the city says there are hotels and there are apartments, and the two shall never meet,"

They have already met!

Clearly, the demand is huge due to the new realities: better technological infrastructure, disappearing middle class, high prices of real estate and high rents in urban areas, the desire to socialize.

The issues are just starting to surface and the laws will have to evolve and adapt.

EDIT, since I can't reply to the comment below:

"Demand is huge for what? For unlicensed short-term rentals that don't pay hotel taxes or follow regulations, thus saving money? This is not news. This is not a "new reality". In fact, it's why the regulations exist in the first place."

I agree with this but that's not among the new realities I was referring to.

Some of the new realities are:

- people have gotten poorer and don't mind the extra income; some needed it pretty desperately

- there is a trend of growing appreciation of urban areas which worsens the first problem

- people have learned to be willing to trust strangers due to the reputation/karma system

- the Internet has taught people to enjoy the social aspect: meeting interesting strangers

I am doing a similar thing in a organization that has been at least as dis-functional, I know exactly what you're talking about. In fact, everything that you have presented and chatted about here resonates so well with me that I'd be interested in getting in touch with you. Case studies like yours are preciously rare on HN. My address is in my profile if you're open for it.

I take it you mean publicly. Really like to elaborate on this topic. How did things go?