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... But that's exactly what they're saying we DON'T want. A lot of browsers re-used IE 6's rendering engine because it had a monopoly. That only made the situation worse.

A browser's rendering engine is the ONLY part that matters, and if anyone has a monopoly that is "bad" because competition helps innovation.

Each rendering engine winds up, for good and bad, with a small group of people deciding what features do and do not get put in. If they simply decide that feature Y doesn't get put in, and that rendering engine has a monopoly then feature Y is a non-entity as far as the web is concerned.

For example, if Google controlled the web's primary rendering engine do you think Do Not Track would be in it? NO! It took all of their major competition to add it before they did, starting with IE.
Google is getting platform locking, much like Microsoft. Even if Yahoo did come out with a world class Docs, or Email, or Youtube, or Blogger, or Sites, or AppEngine - I would still stick with the Google equivalent because I am all connected. I sign into Chrome or an Android device and everything just works and syncs.

I am locked into Google and I don't even have a Google+ account.
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> The living situations of the characters on “Big Bang Theory” and “Friends” would have seemed peculiar to mid-20th century audiences.

Three's Company (1977-1984) centered around three non-related, non-college students in the same household. The two female characters shared the same room.

The Odd Couple (1970–1975) had two non-related men in the same apartment. It was based on the 1965 play.

I don't know shows of the 1950s to know if any of them had roommates, vs. a generation later.

> Fifty years ago a person would typically go straight from living with his or her family to living with a spouse

My knowledge of mid-20th century series isn't that good, but I think this reflects a different cultural shift. That is, boarding houses used to be a common thing, not roommates. See https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=roommate%2Cboa... for an ngram comparison.

Sherlock Holmes and Watson shared an apartment. ("In 1881, Watson is introduced by his friend Stamford to Sherlock Holmes, who is looking for someone to share rent at a flat in 221B Baker Street. Concluding that they are compatible, they subsequently move into the flat." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson )

The lead characters of Amos 'n' Andy, "which was popular from the 1920s through the 1950s", "lived in a State Street rooming house" in Chicago when it started - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_'n'_Andy .

My suspicion is that "roommate" would have been a peculiar term but the underlying social reason would be well understood. Perhaps like how "condo" would have been a peculiar term to our 1950s viewer, where there is little social difference between condo and apartment living even though there is an important legal difference.

I suspect it's the 1950s which is the odd decade, with its new zoning laws restricting boarding houses, combined with the post-war economic boom. A 1930s viewer - or I should say "listener" - may find it less peculiar.
One problem I think with that (at least in principle) is that the people who are already with the company, and (at least hypothetically) have some sort of desire / incentive to see the company succeed, have a particular skillset.

To completely abandon that skillset in order to form fit the company to the most popular idea from the crowd could possibly be disastrous. Perhaps it would work if they made a conscious effort to ensure the idea the crowd proposed aligned well with the skillset / experience the employees already have.
I went from Accenture's management consulting practice to Goldman Sachs. Sweet gig. Totally on point to what the parent says.
If you turn this idea around and employees (especially engineers) insisted that companies guaranteed employment for three years and give it in writing, there would be gasps of horror.

Marissa must be truly desperate.
You should start nudging people to use alternative browsers. I'd suggest Mozilla Firefox. You do not need administrative privileges to use Mozilla Firefox and with the extended support releases, there is no reason why anything other than legacy internal services (running on internal network) should use Internet Explorer at all.

Assuming your application does not need IE specific features, what are some reasons that prevent you from nudging users this direction?
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I think that this is definitely the ideal move under different circumstances. But that wouldn't be a viable solution for Yahoo.

Currently, even at its 'dying' state, Yahoo has huge traffic from extremely loyal users who are mostly in the higher income (30+) age range. To dump that out the window would be an incredibly irresponsible business move. It's easy for a small, young company to pivot, but an old giant like Yahoo has to move slowly.

That being said, I think it would be a great move to really accept the growing age and therefore unique needs of this internet company rather than trying to follow new trends. That's truly their strongest leverage material at this point. Can they reinvent how the Internet is used by people over 40?
awesome thanks. Actually, super interesting because you really never hear about this space.

* What kinds of companies/software is selling the most?

* What is the average size deal?

* How long does it take a companu to sell (let's assume it is an average sized deal and in one of the competitve spaces)?

* Do you think it is possible to make a small project a month and sell it on your site?
And what they want is a reaction. Without the internet they would not be able to see any reaction.
I don't think Apple has said that. Vulkan is not here yet, so they adopted Metal. They may still adopt Vulkan later on if game developers request it.
Actually it is not a lot.

Windows XP already lost support for their latest release of IE years ago, so this doesn't impact them.

This may impact Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 but both are out of mainstream support, and Vista's numbers are extremely low overall. Supposedly 1.74-1.77%.
I'm not sure that "perfect vision that was just poorly executed" is worth much. If execution is the hard part, then any sort of vision that didn't include execution is just nonsense.
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Maybe they were checking if she was on drugs or something.
I wonder how much of this is premature optimisation, or even optimisation targetting the wrong layer, where people would be better to focus on application changes.
In China?

If you look at the numbers and include China they're quite bleak. If you exclude China it doesn't seem quite so bad.

But China has a massive Windows XP piracy problem that isn't going away.
If you check the size of the mobile game market and non Xbox console market you will see that it does matter.
Dolphins can be caught and killed in the nets, but then discrded. The issue isn't whether you're eating canned dolphin.
This is not the same as, but quite similar to, 18F's Open Data Maker.

> The goal of this project is to make it easy to turn a lot of potentially large csv files into open data via an API and the ability for people to download smaller csv files with a subset of the data.

https://github.com/18F/open-data-maker/
How did they know you moved?

I moved a couple times and forgot to submit the change of address form. I did it retroactively, but nothing came of it.
This was announced in August 2014: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-dat...
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But NeXT was a big failure commercially. And the software light at the end of the tunnel in 1996 was WebObjects, not OpenStep. If Apple hadn't bought them, they'd have eventually been reduced to WebObjects, Inc, in all but name.

Steve would have destroyed Apple completely had he been CEO prior to his experiences running NeXT and Pixar. He almost did anyway -- read up on the stories about how he treated the Apple II division -- the only part of the company that made money up until after the point Steve had left.
Flash became unpopular partly because the authoring tools were very expensive and closed-source. They were, however, usable by real animators. People could, and did, do cartoons, not just spinning triangles. The bandwidth required was very low.

Flash's approach to animation, with an object stream and a timeline stream, was a good one; display could start without reading the entire stream, something the SVG/CSS/Javascript mess can't do.

Shockwave was even more advanced, with full 3D. For a year, Shockwave even had the Havok physics engine in the player, allowing full 3D games with physics, but Adobe didn't keep up the payments and it had to be removed.
Yes, both tSNE and force-directed layouts can do 3D as well as 2D. The following link goes to a "spaceship" force-directed visualisation of Python Github projects, the same author has used his engine for other visualisations too.

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So just run the compiler and runtime type checker, what's the problem?
> Kernel/userland hardening is a thing

[forgive me if I misunderstood the topic] If you're running a server, then you really should keep the Web side of things in an even more restricted zone than normal Users. I create extremely limited accounts for each domain or large App being hosted. Each such account can access only those resources it's supposed to be able to.
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I meant each site is as good as yahoo! not that you would have to go to each one, but I don't really care about sports. The finance sites are all drop in replacements and better than yahoo finance.

As for sports, if you want the same information but the caveat you seem hung up on is that it must come from different domains, just go to a reddit like aggregator. I get it, you like yahoo. Yahoo does a good job, and I also like yahoo. My point is it is patently rediculous to claim there is no other space on the internet that is close enough to Yahoo sports or finance.

Companies don't survive being ~10% better than the competition, and the stuff you are talking about sounds like it is moire about habit than anything tangible.
Depends on which specific opportunity you can grow faster toward your long term goal. Usually people grow best when they are surrounded by excellent people and be given suitable challenges. You don't know these well until you interview and learned about what you are supposed to do and who you are going to work with. Learning a lot is much more important than get prestige on resume.

BTW, to be honest, it's harder to get into a good early stage startup than get a job at a corporate. Different requirements on how much you have learned and how fast you can learn.
It's easy to just see it from the pc market perspective but there are a lot of non pc gaming platforms; mobile and consoles.

Also is not only about gaming it's also about those fancy GUIs on cars fridges coffee machines etc
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This is one of the worst possible replies you could make. You are trying to polarize the conversation, which will shut down all future debate on the topic. This technique is abused in politics and used to justify the military, counter-terrorism, and spying. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

The world is not binary. I don't come here to read comments like yours.
Usually optional tooling tends to be ignored.

For example, C would have been a much safer language if lint was part of the compiler, instead of being optional.
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As far as I can tell, that's speculation because Apple is the only vendor not talking about Vulkan support.

Apple has always been weird. It's not that they don't care about graphics drivers, but rather it seems they have an entirely different set of priorities for their graphics drivers than the other vendors do. Acceleration on OS X seems to be for creative apps and casual games, which aren't the same market as Windows. Over on iOS, developers are quick to forgive Apple for their faults because of all the money, and because it's still easier than developing for Android.

OpenGL 3.3 took 3 years to hit OS X. I'm not convinced that Vulkan won't hit iOS and OS X, but I bet that Apple's going to take its time and support Vulkan when it's nice and ready. Android is getting Vulkan now because it doesn't have Metal, and Windows is getting it because the 3D vendors can make it happen.
Some of the lower tier (but very common) LAN network hardware requires old versions of IE to function during firmware upgrades and configuration changes with no CLI equivalent options.

In most cases the hardware vendors never address the browser compatibility issue (due to focus on new products) and only provide a warning sign upon login. Likewise the hardware isn't easy to replace in some environments.

This use case is completely absent from the web browsing traffic usage patterns on the internet which predominate in browser usage statistics.
Beat me to it again. ;) Directory was my favorite part of Yahoo. People giving me the links I need in an organized fashion. It was one of the early forms of online serendipity: look for one thing you need or want only to find a bunch of other pieces of info with benefit.

Many forms of it now but I still think Directory could be revived. Maybe exceed the old one with curators for high profile topics plus crowd input. Some hybrid model.
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Sure, but how is that "another 2 to 3 mess"? If anything, the backwards-incompatible changes made the language more robust.
Postmortems are very important part of this, and I love that these are shared, so one can watch&learn.

For example these external postmortems from the chromium team - https://www.chromium.org/developers/postmortems
I've been waiting all day hoping it would come out but it hasn't....

Flopsy, if you don't mind spilling the bears, why are you asking about this?
It's also not supported in IE or Edge. Which makes animated GIFs way more compatible across different browsers.
Great. Murderers lecturing victims on forgiveness. That's it. We're all officially victims now!

Forgiveness is certainly a valid path for some in some cases, but a person doesn't have to forgive to move on. We simply hold on to the light in our lives and forget the broken, narcissistic individuals who hurt us. No forgiveness to the perp needed. You're already forgotten.

Indeed, how narcissistic for a perp to believe he/she has any remaining power over us, and can "help" us? What New Age hogwash. Of course the perp wants forgiveness. But they're really only thinking of themselves.

And if you're a murderer, there is no forgiveness until somehow you get let off the hook by your victim. Since they're dead, methinks you'll have to wait a while.
Cool, thanks. Perhaps a year and a half is too long! More likely I just didn't notice at the time since I don't use IE.
I have fond memories of using Python 8-10 years ago, but looking at it today, I'm not sure I see compelling reasons not to just use C# instead.

I can have real static typing if I want it. I can also have dynamic typing if I want that. I can use lambda functions. I have LINQ. I can use ScriptCS or some of the new Roslyn stuff if I want to use it as a scripting language. Unix support is not as great, but they are coming along with that. There's no GIL.

Is there some killer feature for Python that I'm overlooking?
"Yahoo has huge traffic from extremely loyal users who are mostly in the higher income (30+) age range."

Is that statement a fact? If so, care to substantiate it.

I work for one of the largest companies in the world and we no longer use Yahoo; we use too. Every year in the US, the Superbowl pulls in HUGE dollars in advertisements. I have to plan for this every year and have been doing this for the past 10 years.

Around Superbowl time, we increase our public facing web server presence due to the increase load. It use to be that Yahoo represented more than 50% of the clicks but that is less than 10% as of last year.

I work for a fortune-5 company. We use Akami to help distribute the load. I wish I could publish more info like the data and the company but unfortunately I'm not legally permitted.

I will say this: I doubt Yahoo Ad revenue will return at least from my perspective and what I've seen over the past 7-10 years. More and more of our Ad refs come from youtube.
Not surprising at all given that they haven't yet figured out what their product is.

(Note: if your product is an OS, then your customers are OEM's, not regular people. Haven't heard of _any_ efforts by Jolla to court OEM's.)
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I can't watch the video because 'This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.'

The phrase 'Arctic Highlanders' helped identify them as the Inughuit. http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Inughuit-Orientati... clarifies it futher:

> Over the decades, the Inughuit have been renamed a number of times by White visitors. "Polar Eskimo," the most common name, was given by Knud Rasmussen in 1903. The Inughuit call themselves "the great and real human beings," and until White contact in 1818, they believed that they were the only humans in the world. "Thule Inuit" is a misnomer, as it refers to the prehistoric culture antecedent to all current Inuit groups.

Do note that this is a small number of the most northern Inuit of Greenland. With your clarification, I think your original 'Inuit communities in Canada' is better stated as 'a few Inuit communities in Greenland'.

And again, most but not all of the Greenland iron came from the meteorites. Quoting the abstract from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/10445803929... :

> Seventy-four iron objects were randomly selected from the archaeological items found in Greenland and have been stored in Copenhagen since about 1850. The objects consist of knives, ulos (knife used by Eskimo women for skinning), and harpoon blades, but also several nonworked fragments and some “hammerstones” were included. The objects were subjected to microscopical examination and x-ray microanalysis to determine their nature and mode of fabrication. The objects may be sorted into three groups. The majority of tools found north of Melville Bay were produced from small fragments of the Cape York iron meteorite shower that fell near Savigsivik over 2000 years ago. Half of the objects found in the Disko Bay area may be traced to occurrences of iron-bearing basalt, while the other half were produced from wrought iron. Some of these wrought-iron tools originated at Norse settlements and were apparently carried as far north as 77° by Norse ships as early as the 12th Century. Other wrought-iron tools were introduced by whalers, mainly of Dutch, Spanish and British origin, after about a.d. 1575. Some tools may derive from iron nails and hoops from wrecked ships. No signs of indigenous iron production have been detected.
Wow, lots to look up and learn. Thanks for the leads and taking the time to comment!
Still too complicated of a story and too much tied up with time and place and team for it to be "Steve Jobs did this". And, there were many points during his story where he was catching more flack than Marissa Mayer has ever had directed her way, and probably ever will get. Kinda reinforces my point that CEOs get too much credit and too much blame.

But, you're right, I guess. Steve Jobs' life is a long story arc that ends in massive success, with many smaller successes and failures along the path. In all cases, the credit and blame should (in a just world) be distributed a bit more widely than it is. Apple without Wozniak (or any of the several dozen other superstar engineers that Apple attracted in the early years) would not have become Apple.
All Yahoo has to do is commit to no tracking of users and I would switch in a heartbeat.
> It's all really bad for reasoning about your program :(

True, but it's really good for performance in a lot of incredibly common cases, which is why it's a case of a tough tradeoff they had to make - rather than a malicious choice to just make our lives more difficult. :)

(An expert in this stuff would probably also wave their hands and say something about exotic and/or legacy hardware that those languages need and/or want to support.)
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> should I move my money to currency B before A loses its current power?

Just like with investing, the more knowledge you have on why the recent changes have occurred, the more prepared you are to predict whether now is the time to "cash out" on the difference. This assumes, of course, that you have solid awareness on the future of those factors driving the recent changes.
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Presumably people largely agreed with the tastes of the reviewers.
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> "DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basically running in emulation on Alpha was substantially better than native x86 on Intel chips."

I've heard this several times, but would love to read more about it. Anyone know where to find more information?
Taste. You can find great reviews online, but the quality of reviews varies drastically. Editorial filtering is very unfashionable these days but IMHO it's better for the majority of consumers, because of Sturgeon's law.
That's nice. Apparently, we can place the brackets around any of the characters too! Can you explain how it works?
Ben Krasnow is easily one. The amount that guys knows about everything (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, chemistry and some programming) is staggering. His Youtube channel is great.

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You're probably right that Apple will wait, but even if their Vulkan implementation were hypothetically around the corner and planned for iOS 10, Apple still wouldn't be talking about it. Apple rarely talks about anything before it's close to shipping.