I'm curious how this will play out for AT&T internet customers, given that their email is currently hosted by Yahoo. Is Verizon going to host their competitor's customers' email?
lol no issue
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#292Yahoo got all cash, which is nice as it gives them more flexibility, the last thing they'd want after the Alibaba spin off fiasco is to have to try and sell 4.83 Billion in Verizon stock. Bloomberg just put up a head line saying that Yahoo will return all the cash, minus Operating Costs to the share holders. If anyone has any guess as to how much "operating costs" will be, please email:) So I guess queue Alibaba and…
There has been a lot of debate as to whether she succeeded or failed at her job, but at the end of the day all I can say: I really chose the wrong career path, as I can't imagine a scenario where a dev's comparative performance results in a 218m$ payout. (In more direct terms, I would gladly take the internet-hate-firehose in the face if it means making even single digit millions.) To make some more reasonable statem…
Developers are the demographic in the best position to launch startups. We have that going for us.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Soon-to-be a freshman in college. If you don't mind me asking, what career path do you wish you took?
Hahaha. I'm sorry if I was unclear, the statement was _slightly_ tongue in cheek. I'm not sure I could have made it in any field other than dev and I do mostly like that I chose it. Bio-engineering maybe? PERHAPS finance, but I don't play too well in that sandbox. The gist I was going for was more that even in a dev's greatest successes, they will likely never see most of the returns they generate for others without…
On the flip side, what percentage of people who go down the management route actually end up as CEO of a company that can pay hundreds of millions? Is that number larger than the percentage of developers who strike it big by being one of the first devs at a unicorn? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I do know that both percentages are small enough to be virtually zero in the terms of a single life. Considering that, I am happy to be doing work that I like for a wage that something like 95% of people in this country would envy.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe someone could remove those 'distracting, unnecessary quotation marks' as well. I think the BBC somehow thinks they're being ultraprecise by putting quotation marks around certain words, but it's just obnoxious.
It's just to indicate reported speech: "this isn't confirmed fact, it's something we've been told". Absolutely standard journalistic practice.
At one point, the headline was changed to read "Syrian migrant 'behind German blast'". But at that point, the fact that there was a German blast was widely known; the unconfirmed portion was that a Syrian migrant was behind it.
So if anything, the headline should have been written "'Syrian migrant' behind German blast". But the BBC didn't do that, because all indications are that BBC journalists pepper their headlines randomly with quotation marks.
Randomly peppering headlines with quotation marks absolutely is not standard practice. Most American newspapers don't do it.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
There has been a lot of debate as to whether she succeeded or failed at her job, but at the end of the day all I can say: I really chose the wrong career path, as I can't imagine a scenario where a dev's comparative performance results in a 218m$ payout. (In more direct terms, I would gladly take the internet-hate-firehose in the face if it means making even single digit millions.) To make some more reasonable statem…
FWIW, Marissa was essentially a developer. She taught CS at Stanford and majored in Symbolic Systems, which is closely related.
taught CS ? I doubt that's accurate. At most she was a TA for some course.
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#296Shouldn't it be banned? Like car factory owning dealerships? Or Movie Theaters owning Hollywood Studios??
> Or Movie Theaters owning Hollywood Studios?? Wanda Group, majority owner of AMC Theatres, also owns Legendary Entertainment. And AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group co-own Open Road Films. Stepping back in time, infamous low-budget studio Cannon Films owned hundreds of theaters. > Like car factory owning dealerships? Plenty of folks think that would be a good thing, e.g., [1] [2] [1] https://www.justice.gov/…
In my country, Car makers own dealerships, well actually only a small number of them, most Dealerships are franchises, so we have a mixed model that works pretty great for all involved. New makers that arrive to my country expand with their own dealerships, and after they gain traction they start to sell franchises, when well stablished car makers want to expand to new markets they usually do it with their own dealerships too.
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#297I'm curious how this will play out for AT&T internet customers, given that their email is currently hosted by Yahoo. Is Verizon going to host their competitor's customers' email?
if att has a contract with yahoo and yahoo doesn't file for bankruptcy, it will have to continue to provide support or pay the contract cancellation.
... or, now it being Verizon, they will just drip one email per day into the inbox and say that they only advertised up to 100% of email, but that the contract only really guarantees 0.01% of the advertised speed.
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#298Verizon shouldn't be allowed to own any web properties. They inject a unique subscriber identifier into your HTTP requests unless you turn it off. http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...
my guess is that aol and yahoo are just fronts to continue to do this, since every now and then VZ get slaped and told to stop it.
it is buying legal condoms to continue to abuse its subscribers.
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe he was being a being slightly tongue in cheek. In reply to your question though - never follow the money, follow the path where your interests lie and where your strengths lie. Biggest career mistake I ever made was to move from a job I really enjoyed to another because they offered to more than double my salary.
My slightly different take on this: At the beginning of your career, I think the most important thing is to learn. Any company where you're learning a lot is a good place to be. But I think you need to be able to learn to like what you're doing, even if it doesn't sound like your cup of tea. Get out of your confort zone. Go into a company that does something that's not just IT (that is, not a company that sells stuff…
As somebody who started in software at a non-tech company, my first reaction to this was horror. On second thought, it seems like fine advice as long as your first job at the advertising firm is as a brand manager, or at a manufacturing firm you're in logistics, etc. I.e., if you are primarily an entrepreneur who might someday want to start a tech company, then by all means get some first-hand practical experience with fundamental problems of interest to your someday-customers.
My advice is to make sure wherever you are, you're working on the thing that senior management care most about. That's where you'll have the opportunity to work towards ambitious goals with the best mentors and exposure to real-world consequences.
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#3002 guys who spent 20 years at Yahoo, started WhatsApp and sold itself to Facebook for $19B. and this huge company sold for 1/4th of that price. Management vs. Product Visionaries.
How much revenue/profit does Yahoo generate? How much does WhatsApp? Facebook paid handsomely for a lot of hype and to gamble at poaching users. The Yahoo deal seems way more down to Earth, compared to an astronomical offer by a company with cash to burn and a desperate desire to keep growth going up.
Facebook buying WhatsApp could also be seen as a defensive purchase (i.e. prevent Google or MS from buying up the users).