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There is a cost associated with the accommodation (which Mayer was uniquely able to pay for). There's limited physical space. There are practical considerations.

Other employees don't deliver enough value to tip the equation in favor of the accommodation. If tier-4 person has a nursery, you get a marginally better contribution four tiers down. If Mayer has a nursery, she potentially turns Yahoo into a fiercely competitive organization.

Is it fair? No. It's business.

Hell, why not give everyone a corner office? Give everyone a private jet? Y'know?
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I can't count the times that references have caused wierd errors in my PHP code. Definitely a good recommendation.
Who cares? It's not her job to be fair, or to coddle the Yahoo employees.

The point of the article is the working remotely is built on trust; if you break the trust, you lose the privilege.

The whole thing screams of entitlement to me. Just because someone else has something, doesn't mean you deserve it too. If you want it, work for it and do it yourself.
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Well that is the million dollar question, isn't it.
If executive decisions were made solely by productivity stats we could be running the entire economy on some pocket calculator. Just look at research papers and how they "measure" innovation. In innovation centric research that is frequently done by easy accessible data such as the number of patents submitted by a certain company. Do you really want to make your decision based on hard "evidence" like that?
It might matter. If the main incentive to buy bitcoin is to buy drugs and there is suddenly a crackdown from law enforcement you can expect the value to tank pretty fast.
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I was wondering if this is a reaction to the whole 6 strikes thing, and the desire to avoid detection with a seedbox or VPN. Of course, which you would want to pay for anonymously.
And this underlying assumption that there is a relationship between working remotely and productivity/innovation is simply unproven. Especially when you realise that much of the innovation in our industry comes from open source projects where everyone is disconnected.

Actually there is quite a lot of evidence - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145358

(And for what it's worth - the two folk I know at Yahoo! (in different groups) are both going "fuck yeah - about time" on these changes and both of them /want/ to telecommute. That says something about how fked up remote working is at the organisation. Both have gone from cynicism to enthusiasm over the last six months of Mayer's rein. They're really smart folk and could walk into dev jobs in SV - and they both now /want/ to stay with Yahoo! I see lots of people saying what a terrible decision this is. I see very few of those complaints being attributed to folk who actually work there.)
Chip and pin is extremely difficult and expensive to roll out. And doesn't really address any of the shortcomings of the US credit card market. Fraud is essentially a non-issue in card-present situations.

Hardly a troll.
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Yes, I spent a year using VS full-time for .NET development, and I think it's a ridiculously contrived way of developing Django applications.

Hence the promotional 'articles' like this from Microsoft.
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Large value movements, up or down, are not a good thing.
> But what's worse is that often times doctors are reluctant to find out more about a patient's illness simply because they believe "it wouldn't affect treatment and it's not worth it anyway". It doesn't take a scientist to figure out why this approach can be disastrous.

Some tests will not change management (just get a chest ct? no chest x-ray needed); other tests could change management but are unlikely to have an unusual result (have appendicitis? skin biopsy is probably not indicated). So without context it's possible to both agree and disagree with you equally emphatically.

> At the same time, high-paying private patients are often considered to be worth finding out the specifics.

More often, it seems that people who can pay push for and get unnecessary services, finding out specifics in a way that does not affect management.

I am still very curious to hear from the creators of this company how they think it will affect management, and whether they have an example.

Medicine needs a huge amount of change. Whether or not this affects management basically determines whether this has utility or is simply high-end entertainment.
When Alan Kay started grad school at Utah, he was handed a bunch of papers on SketchPad, which was done in 1963 :) So the dominoes started falling...SketchPad inspires both Smalltalk and GUI computing.
Can you explain why? Maybe give some historical examples?
First of all, I'm a fan of bitcoin and I do wish it becomes successful. Having said that, can someone explain to me why bitcoin folk watch and cheer on when BTC/USD goes up? It seems like a terrible metric to watch. This figure going up is not necessarily indicative of bitcoin's success and may in fact impede it.

In my mind, the question "what is the size of the bitcoin economy" is a far better question and will give you a much better indication of what's actually happening to bitcoin. BTC/USD * # of bitcoin will not.

In startup terms (ie, "You make what you measure"), it seems like the bitcoin community is optimizing the wrong metric.
> Sorry but have you EVER worked at a large company before ?

Sorry, but have YOU ever had a parakeet before?
You know, there's a cost effective alternative to giving every employee a nursery. It's letting them work from home.

That's kind of the whole point of why people are picking up on this.
Multiple Inheritance is one of those things I really just cannot understand. From my experience, inheritance is almost always the wrong solution. Composition being the correct tool.

Mixins are based on the concept of composition. In my opinion, more instances of inheritance should be composition than not. I strongly suspect that many cases for multiple inheritance are actually confusion around when to use composition.

Admittedly I have little experience with languages that support multiple inheritance. Do you have an example where multiple inheritance is a clear solution to a problem that you faced?
Actually it seems a large part of the expectation is that many slackers will prefer quitting to commuting. This would allow Yahoo to get rid of the unproductive and/or hire actual productive people in their place, with little effort. I don't think anybody's really expecting people who have become comfortable with slacking off, to suddenly not be slackers in an office environment. Sounds like a smart move.
I've seen something like this. It could be a situation where they were transitioning from that backup service to their own server or another service, and the move was never completed due to some hiccup or priority change.

But if no one is watching to ensure the move was finished (or they got distracted), then something many people treat as set-it-and-forget-it could easily get into that state.
Actually, I think law enforcement backing off of drugs (decriminalization, etc) would hurt bitcoin more than the opposite.
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Conversely, she's been criticised because of the amount of money she's spent being able to have her child at work with her - a luxury not afforded to most other employees.
Highly useless link. The post linked to consists of no more text than three graphical emoticons.

Flagged.
Probably because it makes them richer.
He's thinking process at a higher level than you are. He means process in terms of funding, choice of vision and who chooses to commit people and resources. It's his contention that ARPA in the early to mid 60s had a funding/research process that really worked. The nut of it was to pick productive people with vision and get out of their way and let them drive.
this is a great example of why you run the "five whys?" after a failure like this.

The CEO/CTO should have fired himself as the answer of one of those.
She is probably expected to work a lot more hours than the majority of employees. In fact doesn't she have a reputation for basically working 24/7.

This is a way to do that without having her kid basically raised by a nanny.
If I want it to be a useful currency, I want it stable and predictable. Otherwise I have to mitigate my currency risk by hedging or taking out forward exchange contracts (assuming that I can find someone prepared to offer that service for bitcoins)
I live right by this place and have had their ice cream a few times. It's very cool to watch them make it. I don't particularly like any of their flavors or their very high prices, so keep that in mind when I say that calling it the "World's Best Ice Cream" is a huge exaggeration. I would never recommend this place to visitors.
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If you are using the Chrome dev tools, is it still possible to locally edit and save files? Can you view local files with the ChromeOS browser and switch to the crosh shell, edit and reload?
It's not just the perspective of a patient or a relative of a patient, though I can offer that too. This is the profession as I encountered it in medical school and clinical phases of my university career. Granted, it's in Germany not the US, but I'm guessing it can't be that different on the other side of the Atlantic.
How do you determine the size of the bitcoin economy without using relative terms?
What a great story and congrats on the find!

Where those tests really expensive though or do you mean what you could have charged?
What MM is doing at Yahoo seems eerily reminiscent of what happened at Apple when Steve Jobs first came back in 1997.

John Lilly (of Mozilla fame and former Apple employee) recounts the atmosphere at the time:

"[Steve] said 'You know what, we're going to build a great company. We're going to reinvent the world. And anybody who believes me, let's get moving. If you don't believe that will happen then get the hell out.' And this was an amazing act of leadership because it was so clear who was in and who was out. And I'll tell you, people in the room would have followed Steve everywhere and anywhere, just about anywhere. Now it turns out me and my friends left and we're happy with that decision although economically it probably would have been better to stick around. We've all done okay. But what an act of leadership by a guy who nobody believed in at the time, nobody believed it."

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3067 (Listen from 13:50 to 16:40 for the story containing the above quote)
Huh, I've never actually had that problem, but that's a really good point.
And one day, when Yahoo is very successful and has a trusted, properly incentivized workforce, I am certain they will explore such accommodation. In the meantime, homegirl is running a turnaround; the French Resistance didn't have featherbeds.
Except nothing has changed at the top. In fact, she's getting paid even more than the previous CEO with a package worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Maybe its the Board of Directors who need some shaking up.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/adding-up-marissa-may...
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I salute you sir. Excellent article, amusingly written - and (pardon the pun) right on the money!

Money transfer is essentially subtracting from a number on one bank's hard disk and adding it to another on a second bank's hard disk. OK, it has to be done transactionally, and you need those numbers to be secure, but really... how hard is that?

I read today that share traders are excited that they can now do trades between Chicago and NY in 8ms instead of 12ms. So why does it take me days to make a simple payment? And why does it cost more than a few micro-cents to do it?

Revolutionising value transfer has the potential to be biggest benefit the internet gives us - but seems destined to be the last one realised.

I make six figures providing online services for schools, and spend roughly half of my effort on payments. Partly resolving problems where the payment processor refuses to accept credit cards (from schools - hardly a high fraud demographic, and we've never had a customer charge-back), partly handling paper checks, partly trying to match ACH payments with customers.

Bitcoin can't happen soon enough.
> If you don't have some correlation coefficient between working from home and lack of productivity then your entire argument is moot.

You're arguing on an internet forum about a CEO's decision about a multi-billion dollar company. The article in question is from TechCrunch. You need a reality check.

The coefficient you're asking for will never be available to the general public. You know this. In effect, you are saying that if numbers aren't made public supporting an argument, that argument can not be made. Unfortunately, most important debates don't have relevant data. Are most debates moot? I suspect most of your cherished beliefs are also "moot" by this ridiculous standard.

> My point with open source software is that there are plenty of facts on the ground that working from home does not necessarily equate to a lack of innovation.

Open source developers are motivated for entirely different reasons than full-time Yahoos. Red Hat is the only company that could start to make a good comparison. Data on this doesn't actually exist. This is a ridiculous point to make.

> I was proving the negative.

You have proved nothing. Nobody ever will here, because the amount of information we have is the tiniest sliver of what actually matters: data on Yahoo employees working from home.

> If you disagree. Then provide some numbers.

This is not a "lets compare numbers" discussion. You cannot "win" this one. Let's stop trying to be "right", okay taligent? You have an opinion, but your opinion actually has no more weight than any one else's opinion here.
So build an onsite nursery onsite for all the working moms! This is a great idea! Though I'm sure they get maternity leave so its a bit superfluous (mayers isn't taking hers, I guess). But we can generalize into onsite pre-school care, that would be cool (or they could hand out subsidies, it might be cheaper).
Even with a car it can be pretty annoying going to TJs. The one near me always has a massive line and is super hectic. ZenCart FTW.
I don't get it. She's building the nursery at the office, how does that contradict a no-working-from-home policy? She's explicitly not working from home.

Rank-and-file don't get nurseries in their office? Ok, they don't get a CEO salary and responsibilities, either. That's life.

Yahoo lists dependent care on their benefits page (http://us.careers.yahoo.com/benefits/tag/4754/lang/en); even without knowing the details that's already a lot more than a bunch of other companies offer.
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Here in Chattanooga, EPB were the first in the US (even received NYT recognition for it) to deliver gigabit service to residential customers. Pricing is definitely competitive, and unlike Comcast, et al., it doesn't change every six months. A couple months ago, every customer had their data speeds doubled without an increase in monthly cost. I now pay my same $70/mo for 50Mbps, but receive 100Mbps. Comcast wants me to shell out $90/mo for this for the first six months. Three years ago, 50Mbps service from EPB cost $140/mo. It's now half that price for twice the speed, and nobody here deals with throttling or data caps or any of that crap.

I know a lot of people at EPB personally, and even used to work there myself. There is nobody who wants to be inefficient, underperforming, or go-with-the-lowest-bidder types. I've experienced this as a department manager and as an external vendor. I've seen projects lost to higher bidders. I've seen those higher bidders take way longer to deliver than they promised. I've seen low-bid projects succeed wildly (and even built several of them or managed them myself). Maybe EPB is a rarity of trying to do things right. Everyone I know in the company is focused entirely on the goal of trying to take care of the city/county and beat the pants off of Comcast. And they've had to deal with court battles with Comcast throughout the process of building up a great service for the community.

Capitalism is a shitty answer for every problem. Sometimes capitalism is just an excuse to fuck everyone over. In contrast, I like knowing that every time I call up customer service, I get a local person who I know is making a decent living wage, even for operating phones; those higher up are paid very competitive salaries for their position; the company employs every employee full-time and offers them what may be the best benefits and liberal vacation time of any company I know of in the area. I'm not an employee there anymore (was a vendor, became an employee, went back to being a vendor), but I think it'd pretty much take a complete loss of vision and a drastic change to abysmal service and performance before anyone in this community would want to see EPB replaced by yet another private enterprise, capitalism, and going back to the days of dealing with Comcast.
At some companies the only way to get email is to log in through VPN. It seems like such a strange concept, but I know for a fact that this still exists today.
I'm planning a whole post about the myriad problems with all of these. But in the meantime you can read this:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/11/personal-banking-nightmar...
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It's hardly as if Yahoo employees don't have other places they could go. At a time when tech companies are falling over each other to persuade people to work for them, turning off prospective employees seems like a turnaround all right.
You're assuming that she turns yahoo around and doesn't just postpone inevitable.
I think a successful strategy could look something like this: First, fire a bunch of people to free up some money. Next, hire some upper level management from Google (or Facebook, Apple, wherever) and give them the authority to build new organizations within Yahoo using either existing Yahoo employees or by hiring people away from other companies in the valley. Sell the opportunity to work at "the new yahoo" under manager X (who was recently hired and presumably has some name recognition) that is insulated from "the old yahoo" and all its crappy culture of politics and underachievement.
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Absolutely.

Managing people by adopting draconian measures never works. Your talented workers will resent you for managing with an iron fist, while your lazy team members will turn up to work and be just as unproductive in the office.

If you have a problem with quality and productivity, you have a problem with hiring or an inability to measure and manage performance. It should be of no consequence to a CEO of a global technology company if Joe Blow in engineering works from home every Friday.
He spends the first six paragraphs giving context for the article. I agree that the picture was a bit much; the first glance at the page left a bad taste in my mouth, but I found the article pretty good overall. The PL world could do with producing some more accessible introductions to delimited continuations (among other neat research topics).
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Where on the web can you run Smalltalk right now? Where is the Heroku/Rails for Squeak?

And before you write it, I'll save you the time. Here's the typical HN response to this question:

Just go get an EC2 instance and apt-get a bunch of shit and
then figure out how to use a CLI to push your code there and
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hard, srsly guys. Also, Dropbox is just git with a shiny frontend.

There is an unfathomably monumental difference between not being able to do something at all, and doing it in a way that is constricted and limited from the perspective of an expert. It's the most dramatic in terms of learning, exploration, experimentation, and imagination.

Lego Mindstorms was proprietary and I loved the shit out of that-- probably was the primary reason I dove into science and engineering. And to your point, everything I built with Lego was (literally) locked into the Lego world. But by the time it actually mattered, I had moved to a legit machine shop. But those plastic blocks laid the foundation for construction. That's what I really want Alan Kay's work to do: lay a new foundation for teaching people how to think about computation and symbolic manipulation with computers.
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Great project and may I say great design. Looks very very solid IMHO.

Good luck.

As someone with a 1000 moles who have been diagnosed with melanoma (luckily early stage and now removed) would this service be of any good for me?
Some things that are labeled "alternative medicine" have actual studies, with decent sample sizes and good methodologies, showing that they work. These things are worth paying attention to. The rest don't meet our standards and get ignored.
She doesn't need a correlation when there is direct relation between those who work from home and those who didn't even bother logging in to the damn VPN. It's easier to make everyone come in than try to suss out who is and isn't getting their work done when their positions keep no tabs on it (actually, she should just cut that dead weight outright, saving her the trouble of her Friday FYIs).
Cool story, followed link, tried example, it doesn't work at all. Either Facebook fixed it, or it was crap.
It also looks like many are associated with the "Singularity Institute." My exposure to that group left me feeling like it was some sort of cult of charlatans and wide-eyed dreamers. The presentations I've seen from them featured graphs without units and a lot of hand waving without hard data or independent validation. Almost like a sort of Scientology for Silicon Valley.
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Yes, it does seem reasonable to allow the defendant more choice on where they have to go to court.

Is there some hack around the East Texas problem? If you don't sell your product in that area, would it be possible to avoid being brought to that district's court? If so, I could imagine companies could simply have a notice on their checkout page: "Sorry, you live in East Texas, we don't sell there". I'm sure some companies would not want to leave money on the table like that, but for many things I do, I'd be happy to take such a position.
Yes. Wow, I didn't know it was a proper company now. Back in 2004 when I was in touch with him it seemed a one-man operation.
The fact that it was Yahoo that had to explain that the decision was not an indictment of remote working in general is pathetic.

The decision was obviously exclusively related to Yahoo and only pertinent to this current point in time.
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