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yuiblog.com was Yahoo's blog for YUI (Yahoo User Interface library) and one of the earliest places "frontend engineering" got taken seriously as its own discipline. It was home to …

That sounds amazing. Off-by-one disasters, time conversion problems, imperial instead of metric messups. Halt and Catch Fire & Mr Robot were great. We need more like that, and less…

Seems likely it’s all there. https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html > As of December 31, 2022, Silicon Valley Bank had approximately $209.0 billion in total ass…

Have we yet deviated from FDIC rules? I don’t think so, even with what Yellen says. My limited understanding of the situation is that the assets to cover everything is there, they’…

ctrl+f “yql” and landed here. Was an amazing service for its time. Could even execute server-side JS in its engine (Rhino). Certainly the only E4X environment I ever coded in.

Asking someone to spend $400+ just to upgrade equipment in order to support a service that doesn’t work well on the original equipment you sold them, takes some guts.

In 15 years as a professional software engineer, I’ve never worked somewhere that wasn’t heavily using IRC, Hipchat, or Slack. The conversations are identical, the only thing that …

To the same degree? I disagree there. I would never expect a full-stack engineer to be more proficient at front-end when compared to a FE specialist. You are expected to know some,…

Reminds me of YQL, https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ .

They’re about to IPO. Doesn’t mean they’re profitable, but it does mean their finances are healthy enough that they can be publicly traded.

> Being overworked is an excellent reason to hire. It shows that you are about to lose your team due to burn-out or extended sick leave. I took the original comment to imply that w…

Sling[1] is the closest we can get right now. Eventually, channel subscriptions will be available through something like an App Store and just as easy to manage as an recurring sub…

Sling[1] is the closest we can get right now. Eventually, channel subscriptions will be available through something like an App Store and just as easy to manage as an recurring sub…

The current state of the lawsuit isn't over the novelty of function, it's about the copyright of it. Also, very important to their argument is that this wasn't some random develope…

Can anyone explain what prompted Six Flags to buy 100 of these, or what has everyone excited? First-aid vending machines aren't new, nor are these products that Six Flags doesn't c…

Many scientific studies confirm common sense. It's the process of turning assumptions into fact.

> but I feel like the Open Source community could do itself a lot of favors by avoiding this kind of tone. To be accurate, that comment was from a security researcher at Google com…

Forget the specificity of Micky Mouse, as that character just represents Disney's brand. Do you really think a company should lose their brand after X years? Disney doesn't care ab…

Just to list a few of the valuable properties off-hand: Homepage, Mail, Search, Tumblr, Flickr, Finance, News, Sports, Fantasy sports (including daily fantasy). Some of the bigger …

Entirely dependent on who decides to buy Y! Mail. Safe to assume it'll be around for a while though, since straight killing Y! Mail doesn't make much business sense.

This can be answered by the question "Is Flickr profitable by itself?" If so, someone will certainly buy it. If not, who knows. My guess, someone will buy it and it'll languish for…