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The window.Uber variable has a lot of interesting information, like "isAdmin," data about the last vehicle I rode in (interior color, exterior color, model year, capacity), last driver's phone number, "activeExperiments" which I assume are multivariate tests being run against me, etc


Their whole mapping scheme is pretty neat too on this "mobile" view.

They'll use lat/long to determine if the user is in China or not and then pull up google maps or baidu.

Beautify this (https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/web-mobile-client/js/m...) then check out line 13185 for loadMap (Map loading resources on # 13094)

They also create a gorgeous map "blur" effect when the user is ready to pull the trigger on a ride: http://snag.gy/rlBYX.jpg


The experiments data was the most interesting thing I found. I am in the treatment of an experiment involving driver referral emails




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