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To be honest, this happens with locals too.

often companies rather hire 3 'available ones' instead of paying 3x for a good one that would add immeasurably more value over the other 3 combined.
I tend to listen to people's app ideas when their ideas revolve around their life or area of expertise.

For the rest of us, it's easier to start as a competitor in a big market than to envision a latent need and build a product around it. If the app idea has not been implemented before, there's a high chance the founder is having the "invented here" hallucination. I'd try to find a place where the need is obvious and try to build the best product in that category instead of coming up with an ingenious new idea. I believe ideas are overrated (but vision matters).

Steve Jobs take: "I want [Apple] to be much better, I don't care of being different." (Youtube: http://goo.gl/YPQJt)
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I'm gradually putting all my shit up on github, even the half-baked projects, for this reason. Especially the half-baked projects. I wish more of them were actual products with commercial viability, but they're not. By releasing them, there's at least a modicum of a chance that someone may eek some use out of them.
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learn unix ... use midnight commander.

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I agree, the best bet for current shareholders is to sell. But then what? It's still the acquiring companies problem and what are they supposed to do with it? At some point Yahoo will need to create products or make a market for itself.
As a (female) software engineer at Google, I once staffed a booth at CES. CES doesn't, to my knowledge, have many booth babes, and there certainly weren't any at the Google booth. Despite this, I had a number of people DIRECTLY ask if I was a booth babe. And who knows how many more people just assumed I was and avoided talking to me entirely...

It wasn't a big deal. I mean, I'd seen this my whole life. And that's just the thing. It's every job, every conference, every meetup, every event, and every single conversation. It's constantly having to prove that you're technical.

And even once you've offered up a bunch of credentials, you still aren't perceived as being as technical as a man with the same credentials.

It's exhausting. And I'm so, so tired of it.

Changing how people think is hard; changing company policy is much easier. Ending "booth babes" is one of many steps to ending sexism, but every step counts.
It's a web portal, a collection of lifestyle apps and services that don't really relate to each other or have a core service holding them together. Imagine Google without the search, just mail and docs and messenger and that other stuff.
I just looked on Craigslist and found a few Mac laptops for under $400. Most were lousy in some way, but a few were legitimately just older models that people didn't want anymore (e.g. white MacBooks). But I wouldn't recommend a laptop if you're just this side of destitute. They're generally not as good a value on the low end.
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Actually to expand on this, I once put a price in to do a site, it was a brochure site, nothing amazing. I put in a low price as it was for a business a friend worked at (a beauty shop). It was a small business, not much free cash so I did it at a very good rate. I then found out via a phone call one day that I had not got the project as she had hired a company that was charging her twice as much.

To give me a real kick, I actually found out when the other company rang me to ask for DNS login details to change the A records, she had not even told me herself I had not got it or given the chance to show designs and a development plan.

It turns out she thought she would be getting a better service and end result as I was charging less when in fact I was doing it as a favour. It goes to show it can work either way!
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To be fair, not all people who use OO languages 'gets' it. They still get things done (there are a lot of simple things in the market) and although their works are not in the excellant range, it is good enough and they do come by much cheaper.

When resources are cheap, things get less risky in a way since people are much more easily replaceable.

Now, I do not condone or even like to work at those kind of places, but that is just the reality in most places.
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The trouble is, I think a lot of password crackers now include dictionary words offset on the keyboard in this way, so someone using a dictionary word disguised like this is still at risk of having their password inferred from a hash.
"To be a part of the compute grid, just visit Chess@home or any page with a <script> we provide (include it in your blog!)."

Sounds like a dangerous suggestion. I certainly do not wish to join any grids while reading some random blog.
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That's true but given a brand name and an income stream there should be a way of reinventing themselves regardless of any roots.

I think it's really a people problem. Once the wrong people are in charge they keep replicating and it's very difficult to turn it around.

The only way would be for a buyer to come in, fire everyone who has ever made a product decision at Yahoo and replace them with a much smaller group of people who have a track record of creating successful products and who have no previous relation to Yahoo or the media industry.
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I used some random type tutor software in high school (sometime in the mid-late 90s), though only spent enough time with it to learn the home keys. I would then look at the keyboard for the remainder of the keys. Initially that was probably no faster than my old hunt and peck method. I remember remarking at one stage that I was looking at the keyboard out of habit. Then one day I noticed that I was no longer looking at all. I'm sure it was a strange feeling at the time!

Goes to show you don't really need to learn the whole process with some type tutor software. Though in terms of efficiency you may want to be aware of what they suggest. For instance, I think I was hitting the Y key with my left hand rather than right hand at some stage, but long ago changed that.
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yahoo power is eyeballs. because it has 'premium content'? HELL NO!

front page PVs skyrocket when it redirected the email logout to it... so that proves NOBODY goes to the frontpage for 'premium content'

people go to yahoo for the assorted free stuff(tm).

does it's email need to be the best one? no, but it's ok and free. and you already see lots of @yahoo around, so why not?

Will people still use flickr even if it lacks 'social networking' features and ugly themes? quite probably. Should they ditch flickr and 'focus' on display advertising and 'premium content'? hell no.

Does babel fish needs to be better than a paid translator? hardly. but it still kicks google translator butt. sadly nobody that arrives to yahoo now will even know it exists.

Bottom line is:

everyone has found memories of yahoo. But for some it was geocities, for some it was their first email... for others it was the way to find pages. heck it may even be because of the cool TV ads!

yahoo should be monetizing this by inventing clever ways to put Ads on those in a manner that isn't offensive.

But no, disregard all that. let's steer yahoo into AOL foot steps. Everyone wants to read about hollywood stars and wacky red neck oddities while a 'hit the monkey' flashing ad fights for their attention.
It's a very interesting question. I use yahoo a fair bit for email accounts and for reading the news. I am not sure how they monetize this activity if at all.

Recently they forced me out of the old interface with email. Now I can no longer open emails I want to read by option-clicking on links to open them in new browser tabs. All mouse clicks are intercepted by the javascript on the page. Without the ability to do this the email is significantly slower and less easy to use than before. Now I am faced with finding a new email provider, and not gmail. If they had just left it alone or allowed me to use the old. No doubt others feel the same way.

But what do to? Well for news I read yahoo but comment on topix, which is community oriented. Yahoo should clone that. Unlike topix, yahoo seems to license their news content which should provide an advantage. Have news discussion local like with topix. Then sell local classifieds if you get enough local activity boards going and frequented. Might be hard at this point though to get people away from topix.

For me yahoo signified privacy and flexibility with the emails. I used to get news alerts on some topics but they never worked reliably or consistently. Haven't gotten one in a long time so I guess that feature was cancelled.

Oh I also use yahoo groups. These groups should have cloned the functionality of ning.com, to supplement and expand the mailing list paradigm. Yahoo groups have never worked well, screwing up the formatting of most posts and not having a smooth experience for integrating media. That all should have been fixed decades ago. Then try monetizing it like ning does with pay for extras and pay to be the premium ad free host.

A lot of the problems have a vibe that the programmers aren't great, or aren't around long enough to make things great. A lot has the feel of middle management dictating features to programmers rather than software designers being the developers and having the autonomy to own projects long term and make them great.
It's quite a community selection bias to ask people to pay for houses before the whole town is constructed - presumably towards people who are already pretty wealthy (or incredibly risk-tolerant).

I also wonder with that kind of money and momentum whether you could e.g. buy a neighbourhood of Detroit and regenerate it.
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There's another library called smslib which does a totally unrelated thing - send sms. http://smslib.org/
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Meanwhile, I hold Office Hours weekly at the Alembic in San Francisco, something I've been doing on and off since 2008[0] (and based off of a friend's office hours, same time same place, which he starting holding in 2007).

If you'd like free, abrasive, honest advice, suggestions, etc, feel free to show up:

http://plancast.com/wooster

Bonus: it's free. Interesting people sometimes show up (other than myself, of course).

[0] Started at Coupa Café in Palo Alto.
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Why? vi isn't even the default editor on many Linux distributions anymore.
1. he sells for MS.
2. shareholders get some above average return in MS shares.
3. a bunch of companies buy some dismembered yahoo pieces like flickr, babelfish, etc
4. those companies pays more returns than microsoft in 5yrs.
6. everyone criticizes him for not being able to see ahead and costing the investors money in the long run.

Oh sorry, it's just you who can see the future?

...only icahn and pension funds wants companies sold to microsoft. I know I don't. Then you can argue that it's yahoo... so what, those people invested in yahoo. bet they feel the same as i feel for companies i'm investing.
Keep in mind that the same person wrote both this blog post and Midnight Commander.
"It's better to be a pirate than join the navy." - Steve Jobs

When I think of that quote, I usually think about it in regards to wanting to escape a big stupid company and form a startup, but that was not at all the context in which Jobs said it. He was telling this to the Mac team, which had become a kind of splinter group with its own identity within Apple. Of course, it's not just better to be a pirate yourself, sometimes the empire needs to hire some pirates. The navy can't be seen robbing Spanish ships after all (or devoting lots of money to zany projects like a graphical user interface on a personal computer).

I wonder if big dumb companies like Yahoo could actually use the pirate mentality/method to their benefit. Why doesn't Yahoo take a few million dollars in seed money and start a bunch of companies under its own umbrella using some of its own people? Give all the power to the engineers and the designers, skip the MBA-wielding drones that you've described above and let people that can actually make stuff set sail. Would it still fail? If any of the ideas did thrive, would the companies just be smothered when incorporated back into Yahoo? Would anyone even notice that a couple of million dollars went to creating several radical new projects?
I disagree. The c-level people are responsible for Yahoo!'s problems, not the middle managers. The C-level people set the company culture and create the incent-structures for the middle managers to do their work.
The tone of this site comes across as if it was written by a bunch of hippies with little knowledge of how the world (or people in general) work.

This is a process that will take years to even get started properly. They try to condense it into 4 steps, but... well, let's break this down.

- Need 10k enrollees. The definition of "enrollee" seems loose here, so given some mindless campaigning this is actually the easy part. Let's give it a modest 3 months.

- Ah, nice, so now that we've supposedly got enough people, we need to spin up a little marketing campaign to get people to sign off on it. Alas, this isn't a feel good movie, so we're going to give this a nice... six months (being pretty generous here).

- Oh, shit, uhh... hey guys, you all also need to be pre-approved for loans. We didn't really do anything to check this out when we got you all mentally invested (if you're even still interested by this point). We're lucky if we get half of you! Allocate at least a year for this, since there won't be the 10k people that originally got onboard, and numbers need to be shored up again.

- Step three begins when we get a board to actually approve all of this. There's really no guarantee this part will work; that said, if it does, we're saying 1.5 years for all of the basic setup.

- Step four, huzzah! We're building homes... for another 1.5 years. Can't live here just yet! No worries, though, we've got a super high speed build process... hey, wait, you're not listening, are you?

There are so many pitfalls with this it's not even funny (and I'm being incredibly generous with the numbers above). I'm guessing the people behind this are from the Bay area; surprised they never heard of a drop off rate. ;P

Speaking of the people behind this, who are they? There's absolutely no information on this site explaining why you should ever bother placing some level of trust in the efforts spearheaded by these people.

Then again, maybe this entire thing is a joke. I almost felt certain of it when I read this line:

This step is all about social networking. We need 10,000 enrollees to complete this step. Tell your friends, neighbors, cousins, distant acquaintances, cats, dogs, and anyone who will listen. If everyone does this, we will finish this step in about twenty five minutes.
i went back to ion3. i missed it and didn't know :)

i'm impressed how much debian and ubuntu are the same after you install the non-free firmware package.

now i'm wondering if ubuntu is giving a lot back to debian or just doing minimal changes. but i promised myself to stay out of distro politics a long time ago
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You can learn to code on your own, but it will probably take you a lot longer then going and hiring a tutor or even just taking a class. This "Teach yourself whatever the hell you want on Google" advice is about the worst advice I have ever read. I guess I could tell my cousin that he can teach himself how to be a doctor by watching Youtube videos and playing Operation, But I wouldn't let him be my doctor.
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Moreover, there are new ways to share these links across the web now -> FB send, Twitter and Google Calendar.
While this argument might have held weight once, I think these factors undermine it:

Emacs used to be considered 'expensive' in terms of disk/memory. These days, it really isn't.

Non-Linux unixes are less and less of a factor these days, and even most of those have some sort of packaging system where installing emacs is a quick operation, rather than a laborious download/compile/install.

Emacs itself has remote editing capabilities with Tramp, via ssh that obviates the need to fire up an editor on the target machine in some cases.

If your job involves sitting down at HPUX/Irix/AIX/whatever machines that haven't been updated since 1998, and don't allow remote access, yes, vi is probably a valuable skill. Otherwise, I think this argument is less important than it once was.
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10,000 home town. Assume each home houses more than one person and you're looking at 10,000-40,000 or so people. Irrelevant to how terrible (well, unrealistic) of an idea it is, but worth noting.
Or more like a chance of you yourself make a product out of them, out of shame.. I am doing this with my github account too. and see that having half-baked stuff out there is quite a motivation for me to complete them...
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I will end up using NoSQL sooner or later, of course. But now I'm just curious about whether there's a Right Way to do things.

Could you just give me a brief description of how you arrange things (like "entities") with NoSQL?
I was under the impression that female educational attainment was WAY up and continuing to increase. Oh I'm sorry, is this article only about correlations that are convenient for your premise?
I'd focus on revenue:

- Reduce the number and variety of ad formats.
- Kill products which are revenue sinks.
- Focus on products which can generate revenue "out the gate"[0].

This gets operating expenditures down, which buys time. That's pretty much all it does, though.

Then I'd sit back and ask the company[1] "what do we do?" Depending upon the answer, those are the products, strategies, and revenue opportunities we pursue next.

My personal feelings here probably wouldn't matter much, because no matter how intelligent I, or anybody else is, the top 100 creative producers at a company like Yahoo would probably be more creative, intelligent, in-touch, etc than I just by stint of sheer numbers[2]. So, take the best of their ideas[3], and execute on them.

Then, after building up a business which can sustain itself again, I'd start pursuing longer term goals. These goals would be aligned with what the company is capable of: large-scale, software-driven, media operations on the web.

During all of this, of course, there'd need to be a lot of firing and hiring. It'd suck. I'd hate it. But, knowing the tech industry, the people who were fired would find better jobs, and the new people would want to prove themselves. The trick is making sure you didn't waste effort on Sisyphean tasks. Yahoo is not a research company. Yahoo takes existing innovations and brings them to a mass market. Focusing on that would be a strength.

[0] A rodeo term, believe it or not.

[1] Or, say, the top 100 creative people there.

[2] Finally noticed me stealing plays from the Apple playbook?

[3] By which I mean, "ideas which can make lots of cash in the short term".
This was true of more modern times (thinking Tudor times - Henry VIII etc), but not Neolithic times.
and that validates midnight commander as a tool with the unix philosophy how?

downvote all you want. but a clone of norton commander was and always will be a joke.

...saw several sysadmins using it to delete files named with dash because they didn't know "--" is posix for stop taking flags. and that's just one bad vice it foments.
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Launchpad could be pretty nice but it’s half-baked. One big problem is that it ignores OS X conventions. Organizing it is a pain. One example: It makes sense that iOS only allows you to drag one app at a time. Making it possible to select more than one app would only complicate things and confuse. It absolutely doesn’t make sense to have the same limitation in Launchpad.
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There are few people that can give you an idea to make you fall off your chair, and it's worth listening to 10,000 bad ideas to find someone with one good idea that can be executed, without actually causing you to execute yourself in the process.
If you use a default server install of debian, ubuntu or centos, it doesn't have emacs installed. The installation media and recovery CDs don't either.

That is enough justification, especially when you're at a single user mode console on a ILO card when the machine won't boot and flames are coming out of everything. Vi is there for you and emacs SSH won't be saving you when the network is not up so you cant apt-get or yum emacs. It's also not the sort of time you want to start having to learn vi.

I know this because I've been there.

It's as important as it always was, much as pen and paper are.
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It is on Debian and CentOS server installs and is available on a Ubuntu default install. It's the common denominator.

Why frig around with emacs, pico, nano etc when vi is always there and is the same?
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I understand your concern. We also provide a npm module that could be launched on any server. And for what it's worth, the iframe displays a checkbox to disable calculation by your browser.

BTW, the script to be included is a bit buggy, we're short in time. Now that votes are finished, we'll open source everything and continue improving it :)
I'm serious, not trying to be an ass here:

Is emacs?

It seems to me that both religions are not 'standard' anymore. I tend to see pico, nano, joe etc. - occasionally vi (but not vim).
Man, I'd freaking love to do this..

If only my wife felt the same way..

FML..