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Can someone give an example of a similar situation where the CEO was male? Ie an outsider brought in to save a big tech company that looked doomed and indeed was.

Jack Dorsey is almost that, but he had previous involvement at the top of Twitter so maybe not quite the same thing.

The reason I ask is I think Marissa has received an awful lot of particularly aggressive criticism, and it'd be interesting to see if men in her situation receive the same treatment from HN, the tech press, etc.

It would be interesting to find a good comparison.
Nokia's biggest mistake were the internal politics between Symbian, Maemo and to MeeGo transition (Gtk -> Qt).

When the first Maemo prototypes were shown to us, many asked why a radio modem wasn't part of it.
Along with the associated network ops person's answer to the classic "what would you take with you on a desert island" question:

A nice length of fiber optic cable. Once you're on the island, just bury it in the sand, wait a few minutes for the man in the earth-moving machine to come cut it, and then ask him how to get off the island.
I can't find the link right now, but I remember reading a more recent article on NextPlatform.com about how FPGAs are much more memory constrained than GPUs are, which essentially negates any slight power efficiency advantage they might have over GPUs.
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Intel subsidized that chip. It was more like seeing Snapdragon 805 or whatever was the high-end ARM chip at the time, on a $200 device, when everyone else could only afford to put a Snapdragon 400 in such a device.

It's anti-competitive (selling chips below cost - imagine if say the meat industry used its profits to sell milk under cost - it would take out the "pure" milk companies), and very costly to Intel. It was losing a $1 billion a quarter back then doing stuff like that. It's not going to do it anymore.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-16/intel-s-4-...
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Someone's opinion on what someone deserves in relation to someone else has nothing to do with market value quite often. It's not a hard distinction.
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Both trends that have materialised recently and future trends. I haven't been able to find much on this - is there much innovation in this space?
No, that comparison would be a farce since you can't account for variables other than gender when comparing CEOs.
Considering most CEOs are male by far, I'm sure there are dozens of cases historically where it's happened. This isn't the first time a company has been failing and they fire the CEO and hire someone else, only to fail in the end anyways.
I wrote a bit about YesGraph's engineering interview process http://blog.yesgraph.com/ditching-traditional-interviews/
Not sure.. didn't they just release relatively poor earnings too? On the other side maybe she's closer to finding a buyer?
So in 2031, what pitch videos from 2016 will we mock?
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So she lasted like 4 years before the company failed? Somehow I don't feel particularly sorry for her with $55M in the bank from that job. How obscene.
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> ding ding ding ding! We have a winner.

I cannot speak for others, but, at least to me, this reads as extremely condescending: it makes it sound like other commenters are basically picking arguments at random and you are the only one to know the truth.
Also, don't FPGAs bring along additional operational constraints ? Modern large/vast FPGAs will take anywhere from 2 to 4 hours to be Pd in the F. This makes managing new releases even more challenging.
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Chrysler was 1979, GM was 2008 totally different political economic climate. In 1979 ordinary businesses and unions had a huge amount of political clout. And Chrysler wasn't an ordinary business.

By 2008 only Wall Street investment banks had that clout. That's because under neo-liberalism the profits from the real economy are funneled through the investment house. Letting them go under means the spigot gets turned off.
Actually, a language not having a class system does not mean it's not object-oriented. Javascript prior to ES6 did not have a class system, but was OO. Classes are just one of many ways to implement objects in a language (just saying, because you mention go & rust)
Brilliant. I get burned by cross browser issues when going without frameworks. Would love to work exclusively with Web API.
I tend to be "that guy", and I don't really see any major problem if things are actually bad.

Last time I tried to "fix" something, it was four months into a job where the scheduling server was put onto my shoulders to fix, among the other things I was asked to fix, simultaneously somehow. I spent two weeks on it and digging through terrible java logs filled with red herrings galore and a badly designed Oracle schema. My boss helped out at the end, but at no point were developers willing to spend a fraction of that time to fix their own code. I mean, they said they would, but never did. What do you do when upper/mid managers and developers aren't willing to fix a major issue that effects prod's upstream and you're wasting 20 hours a week on something they can easily fix? Continue flailing while affecting my reputation in the meantime since I can't figure it out?

Every company I've ever worked at has told me, "You have a fresh eye, so if you see anything wrong, we trust your expertise, so you should bring it up." When trying to exercise that, though, it consistently ends with push back from all sides. Every time, then, I bring up the initial mention of a fresh eye, where they agree, apologize, and nothing comes from it.

My experience is my own, my learning methods are my own, and I was hired for that reason. If someone's hired on trust and experience that they can do a good job, then forcing "emulation" is a slap in the face. I'm not saying that they shouldn't try to fit the workplace's work patterns, but trying to force someone to do something that's orthogonal to their natural flow or experience without listening, then of course there'll be resistance!

There's a point where resistance is good. There's a point where it's bad. There's also a point where not listening to that resistance is worse than the resistance itself.
I don't know how expensive is the stuff you were making but if it was just about cutting metal it can't be that expensive. Isn't testing samples the 101 of engineering or have we gone 100% trusting CAD now? It looks to me that there are so many things that can go wrong in real life like deformations because of temperature, different calibrations on different models of machine, different composition of the material used, etc...
Plus one for my interest. I became checked out of front-end framework developments when it started to become a big build process with a lot of dependencies, and if that can be reversed, I'd be happy to work with the DOM again.
Aaaand what if that authority refuses to provide resources to transactions it doesn't like?

That's why bitcoin is decentralized. To prevent something like that.
> He remarks he went to a school mentioned in the article.

There is only one mention of Eton in the piece; the statement that Wolfram went there.
This story is being misreported, a little. Here is Yahoo justifying her compensation in their latest annual filing:

> It’s important to understand that Ms. Mayer’s performance-based equity award values in the Summary Compensation Table reflect the significant appreciation in our stock price between when the awards were originally approved by the Compensation Committee and when the applicable annual performance goals were subsequently set (the accounting measurement date). For example, our stock price increased 178 percent between July 16, 2012 (the date on which Ms. Mayer’s recruitment awards were originally approved) and March 6, 2015 (the date on which the recruitment option’s 2015 tranche was valued for reporting purposes). That option tranche had an original approval value of $3 million in 2012, and a reported value of nearly $20 million in 2015, due to our intervening stock price appreciation (which benefits executives and shareholders alike).

The exercise price of the options is not lower than the stock price on the day the options/RSU's were awarded

You could argue that the scheme was poorly designed since she is being rewarded for the performance of BABA, rather than the performance of YHOO.

The second part is that the severance pay portion is only paid out if Mayer is fired after a change of control event on the main entity. This excludes the sale of Yahoo internet assets that are currently being negotiated, but takes effect if there is a takeover of the main entity.

It looks more like a poison pill, or insurance from being fired too early for Mayer, rather compensation that is intended to be paid.

In related news, Yahoo just finished up a long battle with Starboard (who got 4 new members onto the board - including 3 onto the compensation committee (which is now at 5)) who took issue with compensation - but I don't think there is much they can do right now.
We don't, that video does.
I guess that by the time the paper is in the public domain things have moved on - it's six months from submission to publication.
Fair. Nice music though.
Sure. But a specific example from tech in say the last decade?
That’s something that also depends on your profile and how you can negociate.
But in construction you typically keep huge safety margins, don't you (like in case someone left a dead body in the concrete!)?
> but that's really established by the market.

It isn't really, tho. It's established by the compensation committee that is convened by the board and comprises of board members.

Starboard bitched about the compensation committee since it only had 2 members on it, and they were favorable to Mayer (giving her credit for what is effectively a rise in Alibaba).

Starboard got 3 of it's own board members onto that committee now, so the fun times are over.

The conflict of interest in the process has always been that you have your own board members, some of whom you bought into the board, deciding compensation. A lot of these directors are themselves the subject of compensation committees at other public companies - so there is a quid pro quo amongst those who serve on each others boards.

It takes an outside activist investor to break up these friendly and circular compensation cliques.

I like Mayer, but it is really difficult to justify these compensation packages when the core business she is running is performing so poorly. I don't think many people would have any problem with her earnings hundreds of millions of dollars - but only as a portion of gains made by rescuing Yahoo's decline.
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What? I'm not being a troll.

Your post was unwarrantingly personal similar and reeked of projection. Like I said - you're not relevant to my original argument if you're truly good at it and actually spend the time to care. Others don't. You're not who I'm talking about. Christ, you're taking this more personally than you should be....

Also, for what it's worth. Since you used your real name here, I looked you up on linkedin (sorry). The interview process there was the absolute worst and most impersonal series of interviews I've ever experienced in my life. I absolutely refuse to work for them after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451431
I know a dozens of normal people who need a router but no non-tech oriented person who knows, cares about or would find utility in IFTTT.

Even if this was the case, a solution for normal people doesn't necessarily mean cloud based.
It wouldn't be perfect but that doesn't make it farcical.
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Unless the sky is red or grey or black or green, you could just call it "sky".

Yes, that's probably the simplest and best explanation.
You 'probably' don't need one but 'should' use one to save yourself countless hours re-inventing the wheel that frameworks solve.

The best thing is to try and use minimal frameworks and libraries and justify every single one - Which I'm sure most devs already do. jQuery is still rather justifiable. Yes, you can replace functions with JavaScript today but you'll end up with similar looking functions.

I recently added Transit to animate using CSS3, the alternative would be to write each animation effect I use in CSS3 down to the duration! If I need to change the ease I spend 5x the time doing so - From a devs perspective no, just no.
This is such a great comment! Could I ask you for further reading recommendations, please?
"lifetime cost of software" means what? 99% of the software we write is obsolete within 2 years. We should not confuse big enterprise, long term support software with modern web development. IMHO, if you want to invest into software viable on the long term, rather spend your time writing functional tests and good documentation so the current implementation can easily be replaced with a new one that uses the then hip framework.

EDIT, to make my point clear: The surgeon comparison is not valid because a surgeon deals with a much longer lifetime than not only the average but most software projects.
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Even Atom can beat Pentium 4 in most cases.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/atom-d510-pentium-4-nett...
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YellowPages? The joke is they can transition Yahoo into irrelevance?
That could be because they are inexperienced, and are making up their interview process as they go along? This is definitely quite common IME.
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...or, according to what you say, being one of those idiots that are going to get made and zoom around once in a while.

Either way, this makes me think that a model where cars that are okay with driving slowly spreading around but leaving plenty of space in front of them. Similar to how (in California at least) motorcycles can filter filter though the traffic, cars that are impatient can use the large spacing between the slow moving cars to move forward.
> the actual outcome of Yahoo's business is irrelevant to her

Maybe, but I doubt. An executive like her wouldn't settle just for a paycheck, success and image are way more important. Instead of becoming the CEO that saved Yahoo, her legacy is that she will become the last CEO of Yahoo (when the worst case happens) that didn't turn Yahoo around plus acquired a bunch of expensive startups. Oh yeah she did turn the culture around inside Yahoo more Google-like benefit, but history book usually tells the bad things first.

In fact it doesn't take an executive role to understand. I wouldn't want to go to another job with little accomplishment in my previous job. I just feel shit if I do.
I still remember the NetBurst v P6 microarchitecture debate.
stuff that I can imagine would be unbearable to read with an "everything is possible" 20 year old mind, but actually quite helpful when you're 35, nearing your wits end and the exit moves closer than the entrance.
Perhaps from his other writings or I misremembered a bit but present in parts in "Economy of Machinery and Manufactures", Babbage 1832, (1846 edition)

..."In order to convey the cylinder which contains the letters, it would only be necessary to attach it by a string, or by a catch, to either of the branches of the endless wire. Thus it would be con- veyed speedily to the next station, where it would be removed by the attendant to the commencement of the next wire, and so forwarded."..."Perhaps if the steeples of churches, properly selected, were made use of, connecting them by a few intermediate stations with some great central building, as, for instance, with the top of St. Paul's"..."it might be possible to diminish the expense of the two-penny post, and make deliveries every half hour over the greater part of the metropolis."

On National Speaking tubes: ..."Admitting it to be possible between London and Liverpool, about seventeen minutes would elapse before the words spoken at one end would reach the other extremity of the pipe."

On semaphore & telegraph: "At Liverpool a system of signals is established for the purposes of commerce, so that each merchant can communicate with his own vessel long before she arrives in the port."

https://archive.org/details/oneconomyofmachi00babbrich
This works in the UK because

1) a lot of non-artery roads are really shitty in the UK
2) the UK is an island with lots of rivers and lakes so you may not have an option besides that particular road
3) UK average trips are likely much shorter

If they enforced speed limits on roads in the US with that technique, that road would simply stop being used. There are almost always other options, and the further you are traveling, the more options there are.
there are people that actually drink that water in public pools?

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I think I bought nearly all of the games you mentioned via humble bundle deals, so that may be one way to access curated mobile games.
> I don't think a reasonable person is going to argue against that.

You'd be surprised.
Isn't that a very long-winded way of saying that the quality of "managerial practices" are essentially irrelevant to outcomes?
If the author thinks TypeScript is a framework there is no need to waste time reading the article.
There are so many companies out there that the chances of a few of them being lucky 3 or more times in a row are very high.

People are bad at statistical reasoning.
This makes me excited. Could you kindly spare any information ETA etc?
There is not a 'big 4' in tech.
Q. definitional scoping in CL?
A1. Use a quasiquote and comma instead of a quote, which embeds the value inline. Not the direct answer though.

(let ((msg "Hello"))
(eval `(print ,msg)))

A2. Declare the variable as a SPECIAL variable and give it a dynamic scope (rather than lexical). Lexical environment/scope and dynamic environment/scope (resp.) are independent.

(let ((msg "Hello"))
(declare (special msg))
(eval '(print msg)))
;; -> "Hello"

So, when people "points out" any language-level flaw in common lisp most probably s/he simply doesn't read the ANSI spec.
"adopts much more responsibility"

Bleeding a failing company dry with a huge comp package is the complete opposite of taking responsibility. If Mayer stood to lose $300MM of her own money (i.e., money that she had before she joined Yahoo), then we could talk about leadership with consequences.
You call it destroyed she will put on her resume she doubled the stock price and found a successful acquisition of the company with a complimentary partner.
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His net worth isn't based on being able to throw balls through hoops; it's based on his ability to attract and retain a huge audience for advertisers.
Well, I didn't down vote you because I didn't think it was a terrible question. I am not well versed in business CEO history though, so I can't point out specific examples. I just was saying that given the thousands and thousands of businesses that have existed in history, this situation isn't unique.

I also am not sure how you'd distinguish she was getting criticized due to her gender as opposed to it just being an extremely iconic company from internet history that has steadily gone down the tubes. It's a bad situation and tons of people have lost their jobs, I'm not sure how one could speculate accurately that the criticisms are because she's female vs. the other dozens of issues.

cheers
> It is simple chemistry. The calories you eat are stored in fat

This is where you made a huge, unsupported-by-science leap.
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To be fair, it was a different world (almost 20 years ago... I feel old).

It doesn't matter anyway -- after several years concentrating their immense muscle on battery savings and integrated graphics, they have caught up a lot. CoreM / Skylake can fit most use-cases where ARM stuff would be called for, at least in the high-margin market.
What's the difference between platforms, frameworks and libraries? Here's my attempt ...

jQuery: library. (Others: D3, knockout).
Salient feature: does not impose code structure or organization of code modules.

Angular and React: frameworks.
Salient feature: expects adherence to module separation and code structure protocol. Like other MVC frameworks.

EJB: platform.
Salient feature: provides entire terra firma and attendant oxygen for the entire solution. Frameworks and libraries are used on platforms.
I would love to see an analytics database system built on this idea. Let me define my "incoming" tables, and then define how other aggregated or transformed materialized views should be computed, and automatically update the downstream datasets based on changes in the input tables.

Let me define only "what" to compute, instead of spending all my time worrying about "how" and "when". Isn't that the point of declarative languages like SQL?
I'm not on TC39, but I sit next to and work closely with people who are, and my understanding (confirmed by this article) is that the primary concern is about stack traces of existing code, specifically code with function calls in tail position.

With implicit tail call elimination, those stack traces will change in non-trivial ways that could affect debugging processes or break existing tools.

I've also heard some concerns about implementation difficulties, but I know at least one major engine has implemented PTC as specified in ES2015 without issue. I think (and hope) these concerns are secondary to the discussion about stack traces and backwards compatibility.

tl;dr: as with almost every "why is it like that" question about JavaScript, the answer is "because backwards compatibility".

(I also started with Lua and have adjusted to JS over the years; they have more in common than many people realize!)
The thing that really baffles me is that she will be hired by another company after this for similar comp. Either that, or she'll make a credible run at political office. It's amazing how little America holds these people to account for poor performance. It literally does not matter how well they do in their job.
No :) Debian's no-non-free-stuff build, actually. Now extinct.
I agree people should get rewarded for performance and that there are people often taking advantage, but still the entire ballpark area of pay that she gets is guided by market comparisons. There are other comparable compensation packages out there, she's just getting hammered for hers because of the fall. I don't think it's uncommon for failures to result in compensation packages that cause a public outcry.
1-4 hours makes sense. If you're terrible the interview finishes in an hour, 4 hours if there seriously considering you.
I've always wanted to see what would happen if the government employed workers (maybe traffic cops) to take up each lane on the motorway, and form a line that you can't get passed, and drive at a speed just right to unclog traffic jams during peak hours.

I wonder how much more throughput and time saved we could get just by having lines of breakers every 50km or so on a highway during peak times.
I just felt a program is such a general and high-level way to describe software... basically anything that computes...

wikipedia: " collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer "

We can do better than describing a JS Framework/Library, than calling it a program I guess.