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Yahoo stock is up from $15 under Scott Thompson to almost $23 with Mayer, so not sure what point you're trying to make. Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Y…

It's not a complex algorithm, it's a static website run from wordpress that could be faster by any of these: S3, CloudFront, memcache, APC, or even file caching. Yes, you could spi…

"Where our website fails at serving pages" ... can we stop these 'authoritative' posts that can't even serve a static webpage? Ugh.

Well, if it's anything like the Chrysler 300, the touchscreen dims as the ambient light decreases. There are buttons on the back of the steering wheel to move around the stereo sys…

Not a link, but without any plugins of that type installed, this is the behavior I've had for a long time now. (I use Chrome for everything until I need to test apps in FF).

It's pretty easy to own a smartphone and not go around acting like a jerk who isn't aware of the surroundings. You can drive a car without talking on it. If the phone rings, beeps,…

Why would any sane manager take the risk: - for a bunch of employees to start filling up 55-gallon drums of easily-ignited fuel - hustle the 55-gallon barrels over to somewhere els…

Some other posters have mentioned that you can't raise rates in the time of an emergency. I don't know how valid this is, or what constitutes an emergency. Irrespective of the majo…

Well, Uber knows there is a disaster. A large temporary change in the NYC cab market would not go unnoticed. They can update their own 'system' to reflect current prices, it's not …

The building is being evacuated.

I think they were the two members of the Mozilla team that delivered the cake to their IE friends. (Matt Brubek and Eitan Isaacson).

Bad grammar throughout but yes, just incredibly lazy. >"It does sound like the site has offers more than a lot of other Internet things these days." Good god, this is the Atlantic.…

It was just a question of when. Curious to see how much pushback there is, or if 'Sponsored' posts are stigmatized or accepted.

Yes, his English is great. Much better than my Spanish or Korean. No, it's very possible to never lose your accent. I have German/Swiss landlords who have lived in the US for decad…

It happens semi-frequently and is noted on their status page. Why do we need a submission about this every time on HN?

In the 'faux pitch deck'? It's called a joke. Or did you really think after Slide 2: "Colors: people love that shit" this was a real pitch deck?

Good catch. Yes, this all reads as very fake. Link to real people who said it if it's real. All of these names sound like made-up people.

I'm just an engineer, but if I spent a ton of money on a marketing campaign and got a little shady with my tactics, I wouldn't write an article to pat myself on the back about gett…

This isn't anything revolutionary, much less interesting. A marketing guy dumped a bunch of money at a conference, gave out a bunch of conference garbage, and paid some online busi…

https://twitter.com/antirez "People should stop writing articles about sexism in tech. It's not interesting and IMHO it's not the central problem for most women in tech." Edit: Oop…

You're really stretching the point here. First, having vending machines for hardware doesn't mean that an IT department doesn't have any say on what gets ordered to go inside. And …

No kidding. There really aren't "three major opcode caches" anymore, APC won out years ago and is now tightly integrated with PHP compiles and as a module available in any package …

Not sure in this environment, but I've been using Percona builds of MySQL for the last couple years and it's a great drop-in. Good optimizations for InnoDB Oracle-owned bits.