It's funny that's the case. But Yahoo is picking up on demographic that's slowly but surely adapting the Internet. My mom being a great example. She's been on the Internet as long as I have, but I would say she's adapting now. Unfortunately using Facebook, but also Youtube and all of her services from Yahoo(mail, news, search).
Say what you will about Marissa Mayer(I don't know enough about her). But she's making right decision on who her market is and although growth may be slower, I can see a larger number of people retiring that are going to be spending all sorts of time on Yahoo. Since HN is the anti-thesis of the Yahoo demographic, I think there is a more nuanced and emotional approach that Yahoo is taking. But I could be wrong.
edit: Also if anyone from Yahoo read this, please fix the problem with Yahoo mail and Chromium in Linux. My mom is annoyed by being asked to upgrade(Safari or Firefox) and asked to change the theme.
They've done a lot of acquisitions. I think the biggest was Tumblr. Not much to show from the acquisitions yet, but based on the fact that there has been acquisitions, Googlers moving to Yahoo, etcetera, I think there's a pretty good chance they're working on some things that will eventually pay off.
Well right now that sounds a lot like the old Yahoo that blew massive amounts of shareholder value on terrible acquisitions that never panned out.
Tumblr will pay for itself? Not a chance they're going to earn a billion dollars off of that, much less turn a healthy profit. As such, at it seems like all Mayer is doing is burning value on a spend $3 get $1 back exchange. Works great in a stock market bubble of course.
You're right that Tumblr probably won't pay for itself as an individual unit, but perhaps the new Yahoo might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's not a sure thing, of course. We still need to see if they have a coherent direction. If they don't, then they probably can't be greater than the sum of their parts.
Yahoo was mismanaged to an utterly stunning degree before her time, so I don't doubt that a more sensible approach is going to do net-good things for them.
Yes-Yes-and Yes. Yahoo decline always bothered me. I
think their stock will eventually be higher than Google, as
long as they don't start acting like Google. Yahoo
still has historical stock API's, while Google decided to
hog the info, and is most likely charging. I wish I bought
Yahoo stock a few years ago.
Yet another reminder that passive income is the greatest arsenal in a programmers' toolbelt. Not having a salaried job gives one more time and energy, total focus. Having total focus and ability to also indulge in leisure allows one's true goals to be attacked and achieved. It's interesting that my life right now is based around 'becoming rich', well actually just self-sufficient, so I can then work on my true projects. Life after life ;-) Let's just hope I don't get too old before the passive income kicks in. Thanks for all your essays and other forms of enlightenment Paul.
I've had similar problems with RVM. Ultimately I used the system-wide RVM installation and this chunk of code:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm
. /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm
. $REPO/.rvmrc
. $(rvm jruby-$JRUBY_VERSION do rvm env --path)
cd $REPO
bundle exec torquebox deploy
Definitely not ideal and I spent a large amount of hours figuring out how to use it non-interactively. I'm still somewhat worried that some things might go wrong if some of the code I didn't write in this repo attempts to call binaries directly. Basically with bundle exec --deployment, all gems are stored in $CODE/.vendor which is necessary to allow users to install their own gems, with the root installation. Bundle exec has to be used, I messed around with RVM wrappers, but they don't work with the --deployment bundler use.
The thing is that the rvmrc has the jruby version env set. So I need to load it first. And it contains an 'rvm use' which I don't want to fail. I suppose I can slim the rvmrc down to just include the environment and then all I would need to do is source the rvmrc? Thoughts?
I don't believe you need to source the rvmrc. The line I pasted above does all the necessary things that "rvm use $BUILD" would do for a shell, without all the things that require an interactive shell.
You know, I let it slide when the comment you replied to said it, but I disagree with this one. IMO most people who criticize Win32 just aren't familiar with it. I've heard plenty of people dismiss objc on similar grounds: simple unfamiliarity becomes "this is bad". Once you get over the initial learning curve it's quite easy to be productive with it.
Kernel32 user32, advapi32, etc. Are you really going to tell me that the namespacing and naming convention for their API, which mind you, used handles and annoying type defs, was anything spectacular. I really hope you are kidding.
I reverse engineered windows for years, know a huge amount of documented and undocumented api from ntdll and so on. The API is water trash, you lose when you question my know-how on this topic.
I was on the Windows team for a few years. I have seen the source code. There is cruft as there will be with any project of its age, but it's not nearly as bad as people say, especially if you can navigate it well. There are some good ideas underneath. COM is generally a good idea. The mental model of message pumps and window procs doesn't really have deep flaws, and lots of UI frameworks on other platforms have the same ideas under the hood. You mention ntdll, it's a shame more of that isn't public, because those APIs are often cleaner than their public equivalents.
Not trolling, you're assuming that all those words are used in a derogatory manner and discarding the actual content of the music so you can "defend" women. You're a pathetic white knight.
Bahaha. I don't care about rap one way or the other, and neither do you. "White knighting" is just as made up as "fake geek girls" and the Tooth Fairy, and we both know it. Therefore: fuck off, troll.
I do care about hip hop. White knighting is as made up a word, as any words are. You have the mentality that if you bend over to defend women, it will somehow make you more righteous of an individual. Women don't need defending. And those terms can refer to men as well.
Let's just put this in perspective Robert. You're a KFC nerd who plays video games, knows a little programming from modding them, you don't shave your neck, hang out with your cat, and defend women's social justice with respect to rap, through some poor analysis of word frequency on supposedly derogatory "demeaning" words on women. Somehow, hoping this ill-formed sickness of a view, helps women recognize your sentimental romance toward their engendered cause. Ain't gonna happen Jack. Be a man and stop playing internet politics. And lay off the Hollandaise sauce.
Interesting! But far from accurate, I'm afraid. For example, my neck is as smooth as a baby's ass.
But let's do put things in perspective. Don't you have better things to do than try to dox people who disagree with you on Hacker News? I'd like to think we have a higher quality of discourse than that.
