That's marketing for you. There's been enough scandals in the past two years for it to be clear this is an evil company, but not many people know about this. For most, Uber is this cool new disruptive startup with awesome app and cheaper service, an underdog fighting the Evil Taxi Lords.
The profit motive inevitably leads to a company prioritising dollars over people (whether that is a consumer/supplier/employee/etc). Lets also agree that prioritisation is generally considered "Evil".
The car requirement was a bit evil? 2008 foor door at one point, until they decided to lure Lyft drivers? 'Don't have the right car(on a ever changing list); 'we'll get you a good deal on a new Prius!' ( I know a guy who ruined his credit, and lost a huge down payment because he couldn't make what Uber said he would make with that new Prius. Yes--he was busy on Friday nights driving drunks from bar to bar, but their was not enough work to keep that Prius.)
The best job opportunity for them is the best job opportunity for them. I wouldn't blame Uber for the fact that their driver jobs might not be some idealized version of the best possible job. For many of the drivers, it presumably is the best possible job they can get. I'd blame every other company who couldn't do better, not the one company who seems to be giving the best opportunity.
The real pity is, I believe allowing this type of immigration would actually create more jobs than it would displace.
Uber, for example, has more operational employees than engineers, and creates many more jobs for drivers.
These are the jobs of the next generation, and if they aren't created here, they'll simply be created elsewhere. So even if you buy the fundamental assertion of the anti immigration argument, I still consider it deeply flawed.
Of course, major lobbying industries probably would be displaced with a stronger tech industry. I wonder if this is a factor in the current immigration climate?
I still think this is an abuse of down-vote priviledges... downvote should be used to bury non-constructive comments, not express disagreement with a point or behavior. (That's what comments are for.)
Technically, quantum refers to physics at the atomic / subatomic scale, and not necessarily to the spooky effects like particle wave duality and such that we usually attribute to the term.
So, I believe this would be an "effect on the quantum level," even if it can be understood through the lens of more traditional electromagnetic physics as well.
Calling an electrical noise / timing bug "quantum mechanics" is hyperbole. Otherwise, every EE that touches hardware is a quantum physicist (they're not).
EDIT: Not trying to diminish the OPs impressive feat of debugging though. Hardware errors can be beastly to diagnose. When wire-wrapping an 8086 computer, I used a spool of wire with occasional (random) breaks that would intermittently open. Worst. Bugs. Ever.
Don't work for a startup. At least, not as a "developer for hire" to work on whatever they need.
In my experience (albeit in U.S./ USD), those rates come to people with solid programming reputation, IN ADDITION TO a deep domain knowledge in a market with a lot of money.
(knowledge of the finance world like HFT algorithms, marketing skills like conversion optimization, high security clearance, etc.)
Take a look at DuckDuckGo (if you prefer independent entrepreneurial upstart) or Bing (if you prefer massive well funded corporate competitor) to see what getting in the ring with Google looks like.
Bad developers do have that power. But best practice is to use a SyncAdapter, which works very similarly.
Actually, one of the biggest savings comes from apps all syncing at about the same time... firing up the cell modem is expensive, cheaper to do a bunch of transfers at once than spread out over time.
