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In the model where contractors are dispatched to handle some task by phone the contractor is able to make counter offers to the company.

To echo SilasX, there was (and in most places) no way to ensure that your taxi will acctually arrive if dispatched.

If you put a dynamically dispatched function call in the middle of a tight loop you will slow it down significantly.

The only drawback (speed to refuel) becomes moot as fully-charged vehicles can be dispatched while others direct themselves to charging or battery-swap stations.

This would apply to traditional cabs but not to internet dispatched ride services.

It is true that Clojure is nowhere near as crazily-dispatched as, say Ruby, but it does rely a lot on Java-like interface-based dynamic dispatch.

Every OpenGL function eventually must be dispatched to the right driver.

Fire responders will be quickly dispatched to the correct location.

While you can store the output of a view in the filesystem (or memcached, or whatever), cached hits still need to go through the framework to get dispatched.

If you are concerned, you can request our driver ping you when they are being dispatched to your vehicle and you can open it just before your car is Filld.

There's nothing about Uber that's novel or interesting; from the end user's perspective, it's no different from Flywheel, which is nothing but the pre-Internet telephone-dispatched taxicab company with a new communication frontend.

At the moment, with the dispatching of officers etc, you find that it takes about 2 minutes from receiving a call to an officer being dispatched (that's from the London Ambulance Service).

As it goes by, a drone is dispatched to take the package a couple of blocks to the person's doorstep and then returns to the "aircraft carrier".

Right now on FirefoxOS it's partly the mozbrowser api for iframe-centric features, and partly custom events that are dispatched on the top level "chrome" iframe.

"Here be electric magic." - If you ever implement generic functions dispatched left-to-right, you can implement partial dispatch for partial application.

If I have "bark" and "growl," I have to write two match statements, and so on for each method that needs to be dispatched to different variants.