You're looking at roughly twice the cost, usually more if it's late on a Friday/Saturday night. I used to regularly travel from Zone 1 to just inside the M25 to the West of London ─ an Uber costs ~£40, whereas I've paid between £80 and £120 for other private hires for similar journeys.
4 miles in a black cab summoned via Hailo can cost you £25 on a Saturday afternoon as a price comparison. It takes 15 minutes for them to turn up and the journey takes up to 30 mins or so depending on traffic.
I can actually walk that in under an hour if I need to.
If/while you still can, you might as well just walk (or take a bus, they're great)! London is a beautiful city, with myriad hidden wonders that you just don't find unless you're on foot.
I've found myself in countless situations where the walk is maybe 10-15 mins longer than any available public transport (Uber included), so I've saved myself the money and taken a hit on a little bit of time.
I'd hate to fall foul of confirmation bias here, but as someone who regularly drives in London, some of the worst driving I've witnessed has been by Addison Lee cabs.
100% agree on this. Whenever I've started to feel the onset of burnout, it's been at times when I felt I couldn't "just leave" at 5.30, for some misplaced sense of responsibility. It's that looming sense of 'you're here until it's done' that fills me (and presumably other developers) with dread.
I think you're operating under a false assumption that everyone in this discussion gains their sense of being appreciated directly from their income.
I strongly disagree with this viewpoint - you can throw as much money as you want at someone, and it might stop them complaining for a bit, but it's not fixing the problem. You can't stop arterial bleeding by wrapping more bandages around the wound.
Burnout is the state of being overworked/underpaid and lacking autonomy agency (because one made bad life choices to support a family, debts, limited mobility).
Most people feel like they are poor little artifacts in a cruel machine or world. That attitude, coupled with low pay and a lacking personal Mission is the reason for burnout.
So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?
This is not a website you're going to visit regularly, or probably even more than once (except to show all your friends how badly optimised this image is).
Based on this logic, I probably shouldn't have bought the car I have now, because the brochure was printed on really thick paper.
> So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?
Yes. If you can't judge an app based on its website, why would anyone make a pretty, usable website? Its trivial to downsize that image based on browser or os.
This is great fun to play around with - if I'm not careful I'm gonna get completely distracted from doing any work today...
Just to chime in on others' comments, the knobs are pretty unpleasant to use, even with a mouse. I think though, Ableton has spoiled me with regards to knob/slider UX.
