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No. Cook is arguably as responsible for Apple's recent success as Jobs, if not more so.
Yahoo’s Stock Jumps Following Firing of CEO Carol Bartz
Or, he's standing up for his team. Saying the truth is always hard.
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it's like an etch a sketch :)
Agree, but I'd still be happy to lend the Microsoft board my iPhone for a couple of minutes...
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The conflict of interest is a total red herring. Arrington has always disclosed much more than most. If you think it's not, you don't know how the (tech) news industry works.
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Got an email the other day that closed "Sent from my biplane" and made me laugh.
Yeah that's sounding like a pretty good idea so people can get a feel for the app and then hopefully upgrade to get some of the more advanced functionality.
Thanks for the feedback.
That's traditional journalism, but traditional journalism is going out of business. Tabloids and demagoguery are an easier sell for dumb audiences, and smart audiences can deal with bias, so there's only a niche market left for impartial journalism. We certainly can't expect it to remain the predominant paradigm.

You and I may think there's something seedy and questionable about writing for a trashy tabloid, but it's not up to us what other people want to read.
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Well, Yahoo got rid of their last telegraph just weeks ago; otherwise they would have used that.
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> They talk a lot about mobile, but don't seem to have a meaningful presence

"Several Flickr internal attempts to build and ship native mobile experiences (going back to 2006) were squashed relentlessly."

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Flickr-miss-the-mobile-photo-op...
Observer was a good pick. With Hummingbird et alia it seems that Node really has a sweet spot in measurement and analytics.
Ugh, it's not sensitive enough. I don't know how sensitive the HD shock sensor needs to be though... but I wish I could just tap the edge of my monitor.
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I'm surprised as well. Editorial independence is a real issue (not like the conflict of interest red herring), and we're not defending it for the most influential tech news blog?
It says in the video that he paid for half of it, and Woz paid for the other half.
Linux's would be "Toss machine at nearest dev for assistance."
I'm not really that 'light' savvy but this seems good. It's like the transition from horses to automobiles.
Thanks for the suggestions! The facebook thing is something we've wanted to do (and only recently could, reply links used to be anchor #hashes which means the server can't return different facebook image metadata based on them).

We've talked about facebook based login, and were holding off because we intend to lift the facebook requirement, but there are enough people requesting the feature that we'll probably reconsider.
Absolutely.

I took some high paying contractor gigs through an agency a few years ago because I wanted to figure out what direction to take in the next phase of my career, the cash was great and I'd never worked in the fortune 500 / government contractor kind of space before.

I wasn't that surprised when I got told that I was now their second developer (out of a few dozen) who "actually writes code in his free time sometimes! isn't that crazy!" since I was prepared for big company suit world.

The reality was right in line with the quote, if not worse.
I'm going to have to say I somewhat agree with this personal observation a bit.
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Like hueypriest hasn't become enough of an egotistical megalomaniac as it is, he has been banning entire reddits, creating an army of super mods and shadow banning anyone who questions his decisions. Great CEO material right there...
I can't say for sure, but possibly fiscal quarter/year ends?
Looking for my next editor is a famous time-waster for me. I need to print this out and hang it up right above my monitor!
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How is it anything but obvious that TechCrunch doesn't operate under a "traditional understanding of journalism"?
> She could have worked hard to make money, save, take some loans and carry on her education. She definitively picked the easiest road.

I don't think you can call it "the easiest road" until you've been paid $500 to sleep with an older gentleman for a month.

And working hard, taking out loans, and saving money is an option, of course - unless the economy is down, or unless you can't afford to take time off school to work, or or unless you have other expenses like children or parents, or unless you can't get approved for loans.
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Yahoo boss Carol Bartz is fired
This actually should work, but getting drag/drop right on iOS devices is hard. They just don't have the CPU to rerender our sticker dragging fast enough to make it feel like you're dragging a sticker; you tap and drag and it never catches up to render so you never see it work.

We'll optimize the mobile experience and devices will get better, so the HTML version will be good enough at some point. In the meantime we will, at some point, invest in mobile Canvas apps (Android and iOS).
The position got filled actually, but we're regularly looking for engineering talent if you're interested in putting your resume in for consideration.
Seems like a poor choice to force logged in users to accept new TOS before seeing anything; not being able to view the listing without agreeing or logging out was annoying.
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We are still (happily) using Chef. We'll update the public repo shortly. We just need to remove from of the more "private" bits before publishing.
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Yeah, I've been keeping my eye on the javascript GIF scene (there are now decent decompressors and compressors), but all of the existing options are fairly expensive and don't work on older browsers / slower JavaScript engines / slower computers. At the moment swapping static thumbnails with the actual GIFs gets us a lot of benefit with little perf overhead.
8bit social beatbox is awesome - is there a way to fork instances, though?

I don't want some joker coming in with an over-enthusiastic snare.
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Just because I like tools that are powerful AND easy to use doesn't mean I'm stupid.

A good tool should be a force multiplier, not just another damn hurdle.
A (falling) ~10% profit margin and -8.40% year-on-year revenue growth isn't really making money "hand-over-fist"

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AOL+Key+Statistics
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/r/forhire could compete with craigslist if it was managed right, I think.

they could do a /r/forRent, etc. also. Reddit has a lot of opportunities. Let's hope the CEO can figure out how to captialize on some of them.
It's not a matter of feeling bad for Ms. Bartz (at least I certainly don't!), it's just that it's super unclassy to fire somebody over the phone—unless they did something egregious—whether they're janitor or CEO.
Yes, in a perfect world they could contribute those things but the chances of that being so are just too unlikely. If they could afford/justify any financial contribution, they'd probably just pay you to build it for them and have complete ownership.

If you have a bit of a track record, you will get people looking to partner with you and coast on your experience - in 99% of cases, it won't be enough to carry their part of the bargain or even be anything but a distraction or pressure.

Then there's the issue of feeling like you must persist with an idea you've lost faith in because they're still keen. Maybe you have countless other ideas to push that should be a greater priority, while this is their only bun in the oven.
In the case of my blog post I would say you are 100% correct. Without a doubt I was unable to get my point across since Mr. Pollack, whose work on Lift I respect, thinks that I attacked him personally instead of his point. As for my more general tone-deafness and inability to communicate using the English language I can only say that if I keep at it, then maybe I'll one day be successful.
Yeah, so the problem Pier 38 is that it has zoning for M2 which is "heavy industrial use". 880 Harrison St is on RSD which is live/work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liako/6122632880/in/photostream
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I don't think it's trolling at all. It's just taking the same wildly successful (traffic-wise) image board concept and remaking it for the exact opposite audience (one who would never participate on 4chan, and has the added bonus of being advertisable to).

I mean, is Volkswagen trolling VW Bug owners by pushing Audi as a mainstream luxury brand?
An ex-Yahoo here, using a throwaway account.

Yahoo's biggest problem is the creamy middle layer of managers. They are usually lifers (as in, been at Yahoo for a decade), or fresh MBAs with a Stanford degree who think that just because they sat through Management-101, they know how products should be designed.

This middle layer is like a Turkish harem. They're busy backstabbing each other, politicking and fucking things up. BUT NO ONE HOLDS THEM ACCOUNTABLE! Some dick will screw up a project, and then when the team gets laid off, happily move to another one to fuck that up too. Too often I've seen engineers just get disgusted and leave; or they'll go into a depressive "I don't care" mode. Passive-aggressive behavior is the norm.

Blake, when he joined, said that "we say 'no' to nothing, and 'no' to everything". What he meant was: in a meeting, the manager will say 'yes' to everything; but the moment he steps outside, he'll think "I'm not gonna do that!".

Innovation is also hampered by these middle morons. Someone tries to do something innovative, and a middle cockroach will crawl out, whining that his 'team' is working on it, and they'll have something ready in (some future quarter). So you're told to back off. Then you wait. In the meantime, that middle manager will use this opportunity to ask for more reqs and expand his little fiefdom. Time will pass, and nothing will get done. And you'll be waiting, agonizing, watching competitors eat Yahoo's lunch as this middle manager fucks around.

And then there will be cycles of outsourcing to Bangalore and Beijing. Some middle beancounter decided that 3 engineers in India can be hired for 1 engineer in the US. (Never mind the quality of people; it's just the 3:1 ratio that matters). So now they're busy outsourcing to Bangalore. Even critical support tasks are outsourced to Bangalore. So what used to take a couple of back-and-forth emails and get fixed in an hour, now takes 3-4 days.

The list of Yahoo's problems are long; and C-level people are not high on that list. "Vision" is also not a problem for Yahoo, if they'd just let the engineers just do their fucking jobs!

Carol's biggest mistake was pissing Jack Ma off and losing Alipay. A person at that level should never, ever, make such a blunder; and she had to go.
Yep! Here's some instructions on how it was done. The underlying app, ScreenKnock, still works on Lion.

Instructions: http://maketecheasier.com/smack-your-mac-to-switch-spaces/20...

ScreenKnock: http://welcometochrisworld.com/2008/10/02/screen-knock/
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FYI, there's no such thing as "over-arrogant", there's no amount arrogance that is considered a positive, you would just say someone is arrogant.
Though given your use of air quotes about the "big guys", I may be wasting my time here.
Surely earthquake codes are a factor here?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you should worry about one-time, private, un-recorded verbal agreements.
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I agree, I think it's an absolutely necessary learning experience.

Just not at the beginning.

Maybe that's because I'm a CS major and have dealt with so many smart people who's learning paths were derailed by the self taught plan advocated here. They found a local maxima (in my experience it's often procedural php or eclipse driven java) and won't move off of it because it seems impossible and the benefit is intangible and by definition difficult for them to understand. Pretty perfectly described by PG's Blub Paradox essay.

There's a reason the "standing on the shoulders of giants" metaphor is so prevalent in the programming world.
Well, at least a CFO has a good chance of keeping the lights on for a few months while the board finds a new CEO.
Probably because that adds 6x more possibilities to the search space (and that's assuming consistent transposition in a certain direction).
Then one day you'll see that the site's been redesigned by a third-party for a much higher fee and you were never told or given a chance to pitch.
Update GitHub:FI, please. :(
That conversation is happening at https://github.com/torvalds/diveclog/pull/18. Basically Linus dislikes the commit log generation because the information in it drops essential information.
Oh my. The internet is a strange place. Digging up things weeks after they were made in an hour, sent jokingly to a few close friends, and mostly forgotten, and throwing them all over Twitter and the Apple blagoblag.
Wow, I didn't realize Carl was that crazy.

This whole thing has convinced me to never do business with the City of San Francisco. Mountain View is vastly more pro-business, low-politics, and sane.
Yeah, neither can I, that's really bizarre. Shouldn't it extend Sum? (which doesn't appear to exist)

Can anyone familiar with this design decision shed light on this?
Another nail in the coffin for the "A successful CEO's skills can easily transfer to any company" idea! From the top of my head (other than Bratz): Zander at Motorola, Sculley at Apple, etc. You just can't graft them on like that.
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I need to remember this one: "And you will offer to buy me a beer, which I will refuse because I rather have you buy me a freshly squeezed orange juice."
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PhantomJS has it's own runtime environment, which doesn't play nicely with the testing tools, like expresso and peanut, for node.js. But, the idea of a headless webkit is a very good one and would certainly be thinner than Xvfb and firefox-x11!
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While a pretty funny article, I disagree with the underlying message that Apple is making Lion too similar to iOS in ways that decrease its functionality.

For me, launchpad has been perfect for organizing my apps because just clicking the applications folder presents me with too many unrelated options. For example, my second launchpad window is only apps I've downloaded, so it's obvious to me how I would launch Starcraft or Braid as opposed to TextEdit.
Saw this on twitter and couldn't agree more:

Yahoo needs to hire a CEO focused on their core competency - Fantasy football.

http://twitter.com/#!/MatthewJBrown/status/11123353526378086...

In all honesty, Yahoo! does a lot of things right, I hope for the numerous DOers still left at Yahoo! that they hire someone with the vision and effectiveness to make something out of the once great service.
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I agree, for employees, or even m-team members. But the CEO should see something like a mile away if it's coming. The CEO-board relationship is not an employee-employer relationship; it something different.
Maybe more than a replacement for work, it's a feeling that they've "done something" about the idea.
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The rights are already lined up. From Reddit's TOS (http://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement):

>...you agree that by posting messages...you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

In fact, reddit has already used user content to create products. They've done shirts (http://store.xkcd.com/reddit/#Jawsbackwardstshirt) and posters (http://store.xkcd.com/reddit/#Cuiltheoryposter) based off of comments or submissions.
And this is a proper response from the vendor. The vendor should not attempt to get involved with political decisions about what should be available and what should not be available. They honor their contract, they stay out of trouble.

If the town officially holds the position that the information is "non-public" or "secret," then you go to the courts, not to the vendor.

Now, if the town agrees and goes to the vendor and the vendor says "no" or "that'll be a 10x increase in fees," it becomes the town's responsibility to find a compliant vendor.
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This.

I used Yahoo and understood what it did for me. In 1997.

Then Google came, and my ass was a portal, and Yahoo's homepage (on the rare occasion I looked at it) was crap.

Then there were Yahoo magazines and mass-media advertising -- we're talking 1999/2000 here. The company already didn't make sense to me then.

I remember ~2009 when AOL were being accused of copying Yahoo's homepage, and thinking "gee ... I've never been on either". Both were crap.

For a while Yahoo's Finance pages were decent (Jeremy Zawodny knows his shit), but even that's passe.

At best they're sort of a Computer Associates of Web 1.0. Where mediocre technology goes to die.

The Bartz era was at least an entertaining train wreck to watch.
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I've mentioned this before in a different comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2948396

I would like to see reddit release a product where I, can implement a forum system much like reddit but completely autonomous and hosted on their own service - basically a replacement to the dreaded phpBB. Hell, I'd pay for it.
Native extension seems like a great way of them inadvertently killing off the platform. I mean they can't market it as being a run-time for a cross platform app ecosystem if they allow/encourage platform specific code can they? Or am I missing something?
Google, at least until the advent of Buzz and Google Plus, seemed to keep the user experience first and foremost (they're rapidly losing this vision).

Yahoo turned to face the siren song of advertising and eyeball aggregation, damn the user, by the end of the 1990s. Sure, some of their products may have shone (I was well off and away from their target userbase by that time) but as Diego said, the corporate DNA of organizing the Web, was lost.
The news business is always inherently conflicted. In the old days Tony Perkins ran Red Herring and his father was the Perkins in Kleiner Perkins.

A journalist is always getting spin from insiders, and then has to write the story that's true and complete, that engages readers. You're always making a deal with the source, I'll help you get your side out, if you help me get the story closer to the truth. Debunking spin is generally not a way to keep your sources talking to you first, or writing what readers and advertisers want.

That being said, I don't see how you can be a VC, on the board of companies and privy to all their inside dope, and at the same time be a journalist whose job is ferreting out the inside dope from everybody else (including possibly competition) and sharing it with the world and passing judgment on them.

You can't be an insider and an outsider at the same time. You can be a VC, with fiduciary duties impacting your own and your investors' wealth, or a journalist, whose duty is to inform readers as much as possible, but not both.
Two more long form story pages:

http://givemesomethingtoread.com/

http://longreads.com/

And a subscription service that generally has good articles:

http://delivereads.com/
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Well put.

There is a big difference between leadership and management. Leadership is about taking risks, while management is about mitigating them. They are thus often in direct tension.

Yahoo had a lot of management and not much leadership.
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I did not downvote your comment, and I replied because I felt bad for you. You didn't seem (and still don't) to get what was wrong with your comment.

Your comments about css etc are perfectly fine, and interesting, in an of themself - but not in the context of that article. In the context of that article they were off topic.

Your reply indicates that you think that if the topic is interesting at all (your footnotes) then it can be placed anywhere, and that is not so. Comments need to stay on topic to the article they are attached to. It would be one thing if the topic were css and you were brining up a side note. But this article was about dns, css was not on anyone else's mind.
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> This is false. My girlfriend works in social media at a Fortune 100 company. Just a few of their many products are geared toward babies and other things of interest to parents. She attends "mommy blogger" conferences, reaches out to people on Twitter and Facebook, and otherwise works with people who have a substantial audience in order to advertise with them.

By bother he meant spend a bunch of cash, not @reply to people on Twitter. They can hire your girlfriend to submit stuff and comment on reddit all day, but that doesn't give reddit any revenue.
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The thing is about the shell is that it can't really be a brand new language. The shell derives its power directly from the OS and the OS needs the shell to provide much of that power. They almost have to evolve together.

Also, bash syntax seems a lot less clumsy once you grok unix stuff like pipes, exit codes, and argument parsing (which you should really do anyway before scripting unix in any language). The fundamental abstraction is the command + argument list, and many quirks clearly derive from the syntax trying to stay out of the way of executing commands and gathering the results.
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While the idea is interesting, this is probably not something I would use on a laptop. Picking up and shaking a laptop while it's open and running goes against all my "protect fragile and expensive equipment" instincts. Tablets and phones are normally held in one's hands anyway, and weigh much less and are better balanced.
I was hoping that rvm would mostly be written in shell script precisely because of the chicken-and-egg problem.
Yeah—the new Airs don't have Sudden Motion Sensors. Which makes sense, since there's no hard drive to stop, but it breaks all the clever hacks that used the accelerometer.
It's not his team. it's AOL's team. he sold it.

this point however is pretty fascinating "Sell TechCrunch back to the original shareholders". I wonder if he'd be willing to put a number on that sale?
That might be true in the legal sense, but presumably he wants to maintain a good relationship with his uncle. :-)