[Bought cheapest Tesla Model 3 Nov 2022.]
[Before that - owner of 2 consecutive Priuses] - before that 2 caravans 2 jeeps etc (I am 60+yrs old)
I have the answer to all these questions :-)
Its very simple. I was about to answer "me too - i have no clue why the germans say that" (to all the (real) tesla owners here that explain that their car was by far the most reliable car they ever drove..
But then I forced my mind to truly remember.
None of the two priuses had any issue that required repair in its first 60K miles.. - I remember saying that because the caravans were not like that.I never bought a over-engineered german car - but I am guessing they are not far behind.
But really the tesla - had some issues:
- taking the car to fix an erroneous TPMS alert (tire pressure measuring system) (twice)
- replace headrest - headrest "bubbles"
My mind doesnt really recorded the above as repairs.. because they were totally painless... the second was a mobile visit - I opened the app - service - asked me for photos - it told me sorry - we will fix for free - because its the first time - they asked me to leave the car outside the garage - the next day found the car fixed
As for the TPMS it involved a 4 week out visit to a tesla - and even though nothing was perfect... i left that place feeling i have visited a utopia were car dealerships are friendlier than anthropology and more trust worthy than your accountant.
Most importantly though i never did anything else for the Tesla. no oil service nothing. For 3 yrs I just commuted in it - occassionally washed it - and last month i changed its tires... Not even refilled the water. Every other car (included the priuses) involved the time investment of visiting a dealership twice a year - were someone would make sure the car was alright. They wouldnt charge me - because they made me buy with extra $K the free service while the car in warranty package.. .. But still in my head I must have counted this as an actual service penalty.
So thats the diff in the apples to oranges german comparison.
They compare german cars that are being regularly service with Teslas that never do.
I may be right!!!
> People start a business first and foremost to profit by way of ROI.
I think that's as pessimistic as saying that people work just to make money.
This may have been the case a few decades/centuries ago depending on how lucky you are in terms of where you are born.
Today the majority of the founders I know of are not driven out of "ROI" - but instead they are driven out of some personal passion/interest to change/fix some aspect of the world. You can read the various manifesto posts from Paul Graham on the topic from "what we look in founders" http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html to "why founders are kind" (cant find the link...)
From my side, my passion is .. I want to dismantle the local-work system that makes people's life/career being determined to a large extent from where they are born.
I am sorry, I must be missing something.
The Upwork marketplace is no different than any other source of people that may be looking for remote jobs.
When we hire engineers, we post in Upwork and several other forums and we go through the identical process
vetting candidates, via multiple interviews, screenings, reference checking etc etc.
When we post in other places we have to explain that this is for a "remote" job - and many job posting sites make this very awkward - so in that sense Upwork posting is easier - since all the candidates understand/are remote ready .
However, I don't use the Upwork reference history much (sorry Hayden :-) ) - because there are too few companies that hire their long term staff remote - but thats not an Upwork problem - its "the world is broken" problem.
So this means that reference checking is hard.
Shortcuts that we use, is that we trust the hiring practices of certain global companies.
Yandex for example in Russia has very strong hiring practices - this means that an engineer from Yandex is a strong qualifier . Similarly for certain companies from other countries.
I plan to put some of these practices I have learned in a follow up post - because I see how people like you end up getting burned.
But to tell you the truth when I told to the Upwork team in my farewell get together what I was intending to do (I described it "home services" then ) I saw lots of raised eyebrows.
Even more when I went back home to my family in Greece, and had to explain how "building fences" for people is my best idea for how to change the world... they just thought I was making a joke :-)
So I understand completely @treelovinhippie's reaction.
There is not much difference between hiring a local developer vs hiring a remote.
Would you ever say:
Just hired a local developer. He has been sitting on his desk playing games and reading HN? Terrible stuff?
If that were to happen the problem would not be the "local" developer scene. It would have been most probably your hiring practice or your bad references.
My point here is that there is no free meal when you try to hire a remote person via Upwork. The only difference is that you leverage the global talent pool and most probably you can find someone in weeks as opposed to months (or never).
:-) I would love to be on a debate meeting-room to argue with you on this for hours :-)
I was attracted to it because skilled manual labor was practically abandoned by techies.
15 years after I started oDesk there are plenty of startups that are tackling the problem of building global/remote teams around engineers. Nobody is helping the crew that comes to my home to fix my fence or driveway or floor.
I saw a space that is as big as 10% of the workforce of most countries, the skilled, often licensed technicians that work in the home improvement, construction industry - that huge slice of the workforce still remaining abandoned by the techies - by the disruptors. By people that tout wanting to "shape the future of humanity".
You may find it surprising that the answer here is both around remote work and pretty advanced technology that enables a remote architect/civil engineer/drafter to draft/design/spec and a "local" customer to visualize the end result ahead of time and a local crew to follow the instructions/spec and build.
Which online converter did you use? What I like is that your animated gif ended up being quite small (15 sec => 600KB) enough so as you don't feel bad including it in your repo.
The use of the animated gif as part of the github readme seems quite ingenious to me. I don't think I have seen that idea in other github repos. And for a project like this its the perfect introduction. I wonder what tool did he use for this.
I have the answer to all these questions :-)
Its very simple. I was about to answer "me too - i have no clue why the germans say that" (to all the (real) tesla owners here that explain that their car was by far the most reliable car they ever drove..
But then I forced my mind to truly remember. None of the two priuses had any issue that required repair in its first 60K miles.. - I remember saying that because the caravans were not like that.I never bought a over-engineered german car - but I am guessing they are not far behind.
But really the tesla - had some issues: - taking the car to fix an erroneous TPMS alert (tire pressure measuring system) (twice) - replace headrest - headrest "bubbles"
My mind doesnt really recorded the above as repairs.. because they were totally painless... the second was a mobile visit - I opened the app - service - asked me for photos - it told me sorry - we will fix for free - because its the first time - they asked me to leave the car outside the garage - the next day found the car fixed
As for the TPMS it involved a 4 week out visit to a tesla - and even though nothing was perfect... i left that place feeling i have visited a utopia were car dealerships are friendlier than anthropology and more trust worthy than your accountant. Most importantly though i never did anything else for the Tesla. no oil service nothing. For 3 yrs I just commuted in it - occassionally washed it - and last month i changed its tires... Not even refilled the water. Every other car (included the priuses) involved the time investment of visiting a dealership twice a year - were someone would make sure the car was alright. They wouldnt charge me - because they made me buy with extra $K the free service while the car in warranty package.. .. But still in my head I must have counted this as an actual service penalty. So thats the diff in the apples to oranges german comparison. They compare german cars that are being regularly service with Teslas that never do. I may be right!!!
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