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It's just a term of art specific to media. There is no conspiracy here.
I don't think there's a conspiracy. I get it's a totally normal thing for in-groups to use slang, and that everyone in the business world does it, and all that. I'm not saying they're evil or out to get us. They're just people doing their thing. But it's still a bullshit term.
The name Mayer is not present in that article. That's definitely PR for the investors. Maybe to prepare a transition?
It almost sounds like they failed at integrating a new employee, and since this employee is the CEO, they failed at taking life-changing decisions to reshape the company.
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I can never figure out what it is Yahoo _does_. Their original core business (search) was demolished by Google many years ago. Their website looks exactly like any of a thousand different sketchy, clickbaity news aggregators, and all of the couple dozen "content verticals" in their sidebar are the same thing, only focused on a specific topics. They've also got a few services that other companies do substantially bett…
Out of curiosity which companies are doing a better job than Flickr?
I happen to have a Yahoo email account.
What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.
Fun fact: practically every assigned problem in undergrad chemistry, physics and math is solved on yahoo answers.
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Do you have a suggestion for a replacement for "monad"? It's always been such an opaque term to me, even as I began to get a grasp of it.
This post ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/194207/438615 ) makes a good case for "computation builder." Also, as there are abstract data types (stack, queue, etc), monads are abstract control flow types. Another answer there suggests "control type". Something even better is probably possible, but I like both of those better than "monad".
What the fuck is a content vertical?
"I'm a CEO speak" for categories.
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Thanks for the additional context. > Since they're a huge public company, they have to communicate facts about their business to investors, with some precision, and so they expose you to terms like these. Isn't a term like "content vertical", though, used with investors precisely for its imprecision ? That is, it imparts of flavor of mysterious business strategy and arcane MBA knowledge to the most mundane of activit…
I think every field has its own subset of language that makes most sense to them. I am sure a lot of words that make perfect unambiguous sense to tech people, would confuse non-tech people who would say "why don't you simply say it like..." The term "vertical" seems to be common amongst executives. I first came across the term when my father asked about the verticals of companies I was applying to. It appears to mean…
In all seriousness though, just because your Dad told you, it doesn't make it any less gibberish.