This article about Airbnb is above-the-fold on the cover of today's printed San Francisco Chronicle. Noticed it on the newsstands this morning. San Francisco, where Airbnb is headquartered, has begun sending eviction notices to Airbnb hosts all throughout the city for running illegal hotels.
The vast majority of airports are non-towered. The playa is about as perfect a surface to land on as you can imagine. The main difficulty is figuring out how far you are above the ground, but if you set up a proper approach, it doesn't really matter.
They do take a bunch of water trucks out there and spray down the dust to "harden" the runway before the event, so it should be marginally better than landing on bare desert.
If you're interested flying out there contact some pilots who go yearly and they'll give you the run-down :)
The secret is MD5 hashes on all the files. If you upload a file and the MD5 hash matches another file, then instead of storing the file you're effectively just storing a symlink to the original version of the file.
This is a simple javascript that adds a unicode "▶" to the beginning of html page title. This can be easily coded using the youtube javascript api. Just add the following code when the youtube playstate changes to "YT.PlayerState.PLAYING".
The js basically looks like this:
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
var player = event.target;
switch (event.data) {
case YT.PlayerState.PLAYING:
document.title = '▶' + document.title;
break;
}
}
FYI, if you implement this code for real, you'll need to make sure the symbol doesn't get repeated upon multiple plays and that it gets removed when not playing.
Edit: This is two different bugs. It means that if you are not playing, it will still look like it is playing and if you play multiple times, you will see the symbol get duplicated.
Edit 2: Code should be like this:
var documentTitle = document.title; function onPlayerStateChange(event) { var player = event.target; switch (event.data) { case YT.PlayerState.PLAYING: document.title = '▶' + documentTitle; break; default: document.title = documentTitle } }
but it assumes that the document title doesn't otherwise change.
In practice, the youtube api has other cases in that switch expression (ENDED, PAUSED, etc). For those, you would use the following in their case statement: document.title = document.title.replace("\u25B6","");
And to revise my original code, this is what you could use in the PLAYING statement to prevent multiple play symbols: document.title = "\u25B6" + document.title.replace("\u25B6","");
Notice, too, that I replaced the "▶" with the appropriate javascript encoding.
Enterprise document management is a $10billion+ market unto itself and Dropbox has not positioned themselves to approach this market well in the past. I love the Dropbox product and am happy to see them taking enterprise head on.
