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I think a big part of the problem is that, were Yahoo! to enter the phone game now, they'd be years behind their competitors. iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows mobile are all pretty established, and could all easily out-maneuver a new competitor. Second, I don't think she would really move into a market that Google is already working in by introducing competition for Android.
Yahoo! needs to find some untapped market need and hit it HARD. Unfortunately, phones are probably not that need.
Congrats! Very much in the line of:

http://kbiri.blogspot.com/2009/01/lens-story-about-yesterday...
I believe he means the developers are releasing their software for torrent in a trial or easter egg form.
Ironically, put DD-WRT on the Asus 330GE and you have a device that is very roughly equivalent to the RasberryPi (excluding the Pi's graphics abilities)
Nope, he jumped to PayPal in May: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57427801-93/paypal-lures-ja...
My friend won the lottery. People that say it's a waste of money are full of shit.
He already told you, they are good with the goddamn customers. They have people skills, they are good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you?
I'll never forget that near the store decryption code in iTunes, there was a 16-byte string that stood out like an AES key: DontMessWithThis. It was added a bit after I started releasing code to order from the iTunes Music Store and they started changing the crypto with each release. AFAIK, it's still there to this day, though I haven't checked in a couple years.
Entirely depends on how well we do with this one. We hope to release something more, um, tasteful in the future. We started with the loud/retro/child-magnet case to start with to make a bit of a splash and make a statement about doing things a bit differently. And because we could :)
This is actually reads like a pretty good list of suggestions for any new leadership team, not just Yahoo. Fire all the "architects" who get paid $250,000 to make gigantic UML diagrams and can't actually code. Pay top dollar to retain and recruit talent. Don't spend a whole lot of time with some broad marketing message that everyone will immediately denounce as meaningless fluff anyway. Stop re-inventing the wheel. Form great teams and empower them to make great products.

I'd just like to add that I think it's important for Mayer or anyone else in this position to do this quickly. If you're two months into the job and you're still having "introductory meetings" with all the departments and putting together "the vision," then by the time you actually start to make any changes, it'll be that much harder because of how much your products have declined and your talent has hemorrhaged in the meantime.
You could presumably define "theft" as owning something without paying the price that has been set for it (in this case, infinity). The bottom line is that you're using this word to talk about a type of ownership which you've judged to be a social ill. Despite what RMS may say, it seems reasonable to associate this with the historical judgments about ownership that are tied up with the word "theft".

Also, we need to expand the meaning of words by analogy, otherwise we're left with calling things Thing A and Thing B.
Miles telling it like it is. He really dug Hank Jones's piano playing and chose him for Cannonball's "Something Else" and some live gigs, but if it ain't working on the Clark Terry album he says so.
No, he bailed last May.

But speaking of non-existent Scotsmen, the headliners, or fellows as they'd be called at Sun always stay way longer than the nobodies. I'm talking about the rank and file engineers. What bright young kid would look at an offer from Google/Apple/NVidia/AMD/Intel/AMD/PowerVR/etc. and say 'No, I'm going to Yahoo, I'm really going to be respected there'.
We're always open to ideas and a chat :)
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No supply chain, hardware connections, or top talent. Steering clear from this and strongly partnering with Apple is a far superior plan.
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I'll share at a later time, but would love to hear of some horrible resignation stories. Anyone?
My guess is that Google Finance and other copycat sites (albeit better sites in some cases) that they have built are not good investments. If it isn't core to them I don't expect them to keep working on them.
I'm not sure why Yahoo gets beat up so much either. They are profitable and get lambasted while Zynga and Groupon are tech darlings while their stock price plummets and they lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Yahoo gets insulted and asked to go away for suing Facebook, while Apple repeatedly attempts to prevent Samsung from being able to sell devices because of some very flimsy patent objections and people laud them as creative geniuses.
"No more pet projects to reinvent what everyone else in the open source world has already built. Fire anyone who uses the words ‘Yahoo scale’ to debate this with you."

I seriously doubt this is going to come naturally to an ex-Googler.
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It seems to me like the valley values growth, something that yahoo hasn't had much of in recent years.
Honestly, I'd say that there really isn't. I'm sure you're an upstanding guy, but it's a slippery slope. Maybe acknowledging your pithyness might encourage someone else to start a pun thread. And then we may as well pack it up.
yes, otherwise someone unscrupulous could just file complaints against all their competitors and effectively lock them out of the App Store for a period of time.
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I hope they don't realize this at all...
> I realize this post is embarrassingly self aggrandizing,

Yes it is.

> what kind of self-respecting engineer works for Yahoo?

The kind that created Hadoop, YUI, YQL, Yahoo BOSS, etc. etc. I'd be pretty proud to work on any of those projects.
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Where is it?
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It was discontinued after about 4 years.
It's possible the serial was posted on a dark net, such as Tor.
Even when he hated it, he seemed to be able to figure out who it was.
They have some social APIs which you might find interesting if you weren't aware of them: http://developer.yahoo.com/social/
I really hate this sentiment. I think Ray Anderson, founder of Interface has it right: "For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that."
Specifically on the architect issue, I think the system and the incentives are setting them up to fail. If you're a senior guy, measured on fluffy terms like 'influence', you're not going to get a promotion by saying you designed the simplest thing possible - or by saying you just took this project from Github that happens to solve your problems.

You are incentivized to build grand, complex systems which will look good when you want to do a talk at an O'Reilly conference - which is exactly what winds up happening.
He also wrote "Two-Minute Mysteries", starring Dr. Haledjian, his companion Octavia, and the bounder Bertie Tilford.

Good times.
Seriously, friend

A person makes a suggestion and goes on to explain how it would work, why it needs to be done, etc... Never mind that his point is worth exploring, but you come out of nowhere and claim the idiocy of his proposition without 1) explain why, or 2) putting forward an alternative.

I cannot say you are exactly what is wrong with online societies, but your attitude is exactly that and your previous comments prove me right. All negative.

Seriously, Friend, change your attitude towards life.
Truth be told, I'm not arguing strongly in support of the original bit of anecdotal evidence. I was more responding to the quote:

"Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes?"

I feel as though I made my case pretty well for a generalized reason, above. In this particular case, as I said:

"The key here is that the number reported is "unique visitors" – what, exactly, is this telling us? Not much at all because it says nothing of intent, much less duration of stay on that page or frequency of use.

I think there's much ado about little data. So, in the face of not all that informative of data, I think a weak bit of anecdotal pushback is wonderful if it gets conversation started.
"Imagine a phone with built-in Flickr". Right, I'm imagining it.. what's good about it? Why does anyone want that over Facebook integration?

You make good points about Yahoo's content, but they should work on integrating that content with someone else's device.
That's an interesting question. I don't have an expert opinion, but if I was to have some speculative fun I'd say that in the U.S. if you use the software without proper licensing then it would still be breaking civil copyright law. After all no one sells software, they sell EULAs that give a user license to use their copyrighted software.

I'm not sure if a developer is allowed to intentionally leak their software without proper licensing and then claim that the user must still purchase a license to use the software. And if they openly admitted in court to having uploaded their software for anyone to download, I'd assume a judge would laugh them out of court.
We want to send you email when your friend or coworker invites you to a list, or when someone comments on the things you share.

You can unsubscribe from all the emails from your profile settings.
If everyone used the same assets, games would all have the same blandness. No thank you.
That's fair, but Yahoo has vast size which arguably is the point of growth.
If only they knew what they had several years ago! They had IMO the biggest, most comprehensive 'profiles' service on the web, pre-Myspace/Facebook, and they blew it by wiping all profiles and migrating to Yahoo 360 (or whatever it was called), then called that off, wiped the profiles again, and have a new thing called 'Pulse' that nobody uses.
What's a TV widget?

Edit: ok this is almost cool http://freetubetv.net/tvwidgets.php/ but it seems like it's taking someone else's content and delivering it to other people? That seems about as productive as https://xkcd.com/1060/
The squirrel example is absolutely absurd - there are clear physiological, morphological differences between human beings and squirrels that influence whether or not squirrels even have the capacity to master fire, or whatever other silly comparison you choose. Furthermore, I think you will find that environmental factors plainly influence the behavior of animal populations (squirrels, chimpanzees, birds - any kingdom, genus or species you choose) far more than any particular genetic variation among them - animals of the same species without abundant resources behave quite differently from animals of the same species in an environment of abundance (one need only look at any pest species - animal or plant - to see that this is true).

There does not exist much variation across 'societies' of animals within the same species - one tribe of baboons is much like another tribe - but there exist vast gaps between societies of human beings, so far as these gaps influence the environment of individuals among populations, and entire populations as a whole.

There is no physiological model for human intelligence, and since only physiological traits are inheritable (though psychological traits may be derived from morphological differences) there is no model for genetic influence on intelligence. Since there is no model, you can only blindly test a black-box hypothesis - and the results from those tests appear to support the conclusion that there does not exist any inheritable, physiological difference that would influence intelligence, controlling for societal factors.
If you have 200 reputation on any site in the network, you should be granted a +100 bonus when you create an account on a new site. That's enough to let you vote and comment, but not quite enough to downvote.
I do, and school was a frighteningly long time ago. As a clue, I think the last language I coded it in was Fortran II.
Please keep on inspiring the rest of the community to ship innovation faster.
I've received 4 emails in the last month, none of them for those things. I don't care so much about the emails as I do the login buttons that aren't actually login buttons, they're registration step 1 buttons.
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Neat - thanks for the great work.
Everything gets old. You need that time goofing off so that goofing off gets old, and working becomes amazing and fun again.

people forget this.
I would also add, that the political agenda is not from those advancing the idea that environment influences human development, but from those that contend it is genetics.

Consider the sorts of policies someone who wanted to maximise productivity in society would develop if it was found that genetics was a greater influencing factor - why would you support development for poor populations of people if it was found that they simply don't have the same development potential? You would simply screen for the 'genius' gene and push the rest of society toward a supporting role.

In the case of the environmental view, you must now implement policies that raise the living conditions for the majority of people in society - better and more schools, better and more social programs, better opportunity - that's expensive, and there's not much money to be made.
If Yahoo were to make hardware that leveraged Flickr's brand, I would think a slick web-connected digital photo frame or something like that would be a lot more attractive and lower risk.

Ultimately hardware is too high risk and low reward, especially when you're not firing on all pistons and basically in a something of an existential funk in many of the current business lines.
That's a cute sentiment and there are many small businesses that adhere to it.
Reading this sort of reminds of that moment detailed in the Jobs biography.

Upon Jobs return to Apple, he asks the product managers to present their current product offerings. They're detailing all sorts of minutiae, differing versions to address different sub-markets, yada yada yada. Jobs waves them all off, draws a grid and says they need four products.

It certainly seems that Yahoo could use a moment like that.
The point I was trying to make was that tagging is broken but tags are not dead. They just need to have a purpose. Making the user to catalog the content instead using search is not a valid purpose.

In many apps, the tags just seems to add up in a mess. You will more tags that you care of and in the end you're not sure what's the point. Are you tagging them for finding them later or just for fun?

In the end we gave in, but with hashtags, since they don't add any complexity if you don't use them. We still try to guide to people use them purposefully. I like how in twitter they're very subtle but can be a powerful way to guide the discussion.

If you want to find something, use search. Don't rely on tagging and trying to remember the tags you sued.
I think the point here is that the OP (of this comment thread) would likely NOT be working on anything nearly that interesting. Yahoo's bread and butter is generating as many 'destinations' for its content and ad network as possible, and all those other tech projects are just byproducts of that.
They've had growth the last 2 quarters.
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I am moving from dynamic to static typing. Unfortunately the `compose` primitive has a rank-2 type in the general case, so you need explicit type annotations for many higher-order functions. I am supporting ADTs, which are basically identical to quotations under the hood. There will be an object system in the standard library once I figure out a good object model. Memory management is done through plain old refcounting. Some programs may benefit from waiting for the next push before deallocating popped values, but I have yet to profile to find out.

As you may have realised, currying doesn’t really apply to concatenative languages because they lack application. The analogue of partial application is deferred composition, i.e., just concatenating quotations:

[1] [+] compose [1 +] =

I’ve been working on the language actively, but haven’t pushed code lately. Do watch the repo[1] if you’re interested, though, and link me to yours. I also think I know you from #esoteric or something? My memory sucks and I haven’t been on there lately.

[1] https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
Do companies still have absurdly well-compensated "architects" who do nothing but diagram?
Yes, the withholding rules are much more strict for foreign contractors. Share options are very complicated because there's a variety of moving factors. I wouldn't be able to say very much unless I knew more.
I've never been much of a reader, but I absolutely loved these books when I was a kid. Finding one I hadn't read yet at the school library was like finding hidden treasure. RIP Mr. Sobol, you brought many children a lot of joy.
Just like patio11 said: Make sure there is a need. How do you do that? Ask them. Call them up, introduce yourself, and let them know you are not selling anything. Get their permission to answer a few quick questions regarding your product idea. Do this with at least 25 businesses. The more, the better. Store their information for future campaigns.

Once you have validated the idea the real work starts. Yet you already have a group of people that validated your idea by stating that they do indeed need what you offer. Great.

This is where your marketing campaign starts. I would start by sending them a free informational package (can be an email) regarding the stuff you both talked about. Then send them a monthly newsletter about how other businesses like theirs have brought your product (and how they love it and couldn't live without it). Call them every few weeks to say hello and to offer them some limited time promotion. Just be nice, and don't be sleazy. I would suggest that you also send them a newsletter that has nothing to do with your product, but everything to do with them ( as a person). I've sent out newsletters about positive news, and people still ask if I plan to send more (or when).

Now, read patio11's post. Realize that there is no such thing as a small business. Just people doing a type of business. Don't market yourself as a "small business product", but as a law firm information technology expert or as a beauty salon technology consultant. Give yourself the title of expert in their specific niche, and let them put you on a pedestal. After all, you know your stuff. Nothing wrong with bragging.
Adapt this technique to what I said above. Instead of sending out one generic newsletter to everyone, send one newsletter to law firms, one to beauty salons, one to mechanics, etc. The same newsletter, but with a slightly different design. Hire a low cost graphic designer to do this for you. It doesnt need to be fancy, just easy to read. Oh, and keep it short. 3-4 pages is enough. Use 14point font for easy reading.

Since you are programmers, you can really automate most of this stuff. Now, I suggest you get some part-time help with the marketing side of things. Dont try to do it all, or you wont do shit.

Good luck.

PS. Email in profile if you have any (short) questions. =)
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Apple invented the universe and everything in it.
The beauty of tags is that they can do all the things he lists; taxonomic description, lists, and ad-hoc grouping. It's up to the user, and they can be used all ways at once.
I can absolutely assure you he was very familiar with each of the people he heard, they are all famous even today...
The innovation is getting HN and others to pay attention to them.
Yeah, the site is real pretty - but I have no idea what the site is offering. I understand dribble / 99designs / crowdspring .. but how exactly am I partnering with 444 designers? How does the interview process work? How long does the matching process typically take? How much is this gonna cost me (cheap, like 99 designs, or market rates?) Does this support the no-spec initiative?
Is the board changing? Not that I've heard. New CEO's are still beholden to their boards, and from what I can see the yahoo board is out to lunch.
the real funny thing is that tagging never really worked, yet it all comes down to the "roach motel" theory of life.

the del.icio.us API was all about take, take, take. they wanted your bookmarks but they weren't going to let you get anybody else's public bookmarks out. they built nothing interesting based on the bookmarks (except for tag-driven RSS feeds that were great for feeding phony content into a spam machine)

tags have always been about getting stuff in and not at all about getting it out.

In 2012 we've almost got text analysis tools that can autotag content with DBpedia and Freebase identifiers... almost.
Damn right they do. These "architects" are typically folks who have just a bit of coding experience but learned to navigate the bureaucratic waters to their advantage, and they love it.

A real "architect" who really solves business problems with technology is called a CTO
I think its clear he is a dick, but its nice to hear someone be brutally honest about people that most people wouldn't venture to criticize. He could do it because he was the michael jordan of jazz at the time, I guess. Most of us have to watch our mouths because you can't hate on people that are better than you...

Also, I felt a sick pleasure hearing him rip apart eric dolphy- I have never liked that guy! why did coltrane play with him?!?!
I think the key is that you can still find content without tagging. Gmail does this through fantastic search capability. When you have that as a backup, tagging becomes quite wonderful.

As a sidenote, I've often wondered what computing would have been like had the concept of folders been replaced by tags from the beginning.
I stomped out of two jobs. Both times it was a good idea.
Namespacing is a really good idea, and I think might be what they were trying for but didn't quite reach.
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Not an online service, but PowerMarks was doing this over a decade ago. Defunct, now: RIP.
Interesting. I hadn't heard about the Oracle Nosql thing and that link didn't work for me, but this does: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/nosql/overview/in...

I wonder what's the story behind that.
Google seems to adhere to it as well. Google's founders (reluctantly) embraced text ads as a way to make the company they wanted to lead profitable so that it could continue to exist. I think modern business loses sight of this idea.
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Yahoo! Finance is considered by many to be the best out there. It would be a net loss to have to switch to e.g. Google Finance.
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1) Maybe I am just slow, but it would probably take me more than 12 weeks to create an app like this. Well designed mobile stuff can be deceptively time consuming.

2) http://mint.com
card.io is pretty cool—I wasn't aware of it until now.

I’m just shocked at how poor the security of the entire consumer finance system is, if you can accept payment just by taking a photo of someone’s card. I wouldn’t be surprised if professional credit card fraudsters had implemented this technology years ago (except with covert cameras).

A sincere question: what would stop you from photocopying someone’s card and using it to buy goods with this system? At least with Square you need a magnetic barcode, which might act as a very mild deterrent.

EDIT: FYI, I live in Europe, where we’ve had Chip & PIN-verified PoS transactions for a while now. Still not the best security, but at least it’s no longer trivial.