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Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by analognoise »

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #45
SwellJoe wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My previous company built web caching servers for independent ISPs. We served a bunch of providers in rural areas who offered WiMAX to customers that were too far out to get DSL or cable internet, and with lower latency than satellite. It was usually somewhat expensive, compared to DSL/cable, but the ISP could profitably serve individual customers the "last mile" (or last dozen miles, with a repeater or two). A lot o…

Wi-Max or alternatives like DIY long range Wi-Fi, cannot have both 10 miles (~15 km) range and high throughput. At the very minimum because earth curvature, and also because the radio signal has to go right through the moisture in between the sender and receiver. I came up a few years ago with the idea that it would be possible to use the mesospheric layer as a passive relay for communications at 40 miles range in de…

Sure you can, you just need a bigger tower; you can get gigabit speeds with microwaves, no sweat, very directional too. Signal loss due to moisture? Up the power. It doesn't work? Use more power, or add 5 feet to the tower and try again. Remember, if brute force isn't working, you aren't using enough of it.

BTW: I like how you kinda gloss over the advanced math for atmospheric corrections. The idea is interesting, though.

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by analognoise »

BuuQu9hu wrote: post #40
ChuckMcM wrote: post #20

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Sadly every cellular map I've seen has a big black hole with is Wyoming/Montana. I feel for your grandparents, beautiful country but no connectivity.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to come along and create a new network based on open source mobile stuff. http://osmocom.org/

"Open source mobile stuff." - Good plan, sounds well thought out, sign me up.

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by keypusher »

__jal wrote: post #28
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21

Still the third most visited Web property in the United States According to Alexa it's the 5th [1] but I'm sure it's not a huge difference between third and fifth. Yahoo still makes almost $5BN a year. It's a 24 year old internet behemoth. I mean by any reasonable measure of a company, those are ungodly numbers. Given how people talk about Yahoo though you'd think it was populated with lepers. I guess it's all about…

Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first interne…

I mentioned the same thing to a former Yahoo employee recently (about Pipes), he looked at me for a second and responded "Well, there was Hadoop."

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by BuuQu9hu »

analognoise wrote: post #52
BuuQu9hu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to come along and create a new network based on open source mobile stuff. http://osmocom.org/

"Open source mobile stuff." - Good plan, sounds well thought out, sign me up.

If the CCC can do it every year, Burning Man can do it, Niue can do it, an island off Nicaragua can do it, then the middle of the USA can too.

http://wiki.rhizomatica.org/index.php/Rhizomatica_GSM http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Building-a-GSM-network... http://itp.junglebrains.com/setting-up-your-own-cellular-net...

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by BronSteeDiam »

guftagu wrote: post #37
puranjay wrote: post #33

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Most articles could be condensed into headlines

> Most articles could be condensed into headlines There really needs to be an app for that

There was, it was bought by Yahoo... http://summly.com

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by barrkel »

paulddraper wrote: post #29
__jal wrote: post #28

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Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first interne…

> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M ). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them? They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.

I heard loads about 3M when I was in college. It was probably one of the most frequently mentioned companies in the context of strategic management.

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by dom96 »

BronSteeDiam wrote: post #55
guftagu wrote: post #37

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> Most articles could be condensed into headlines There really needs to be an app for that

There was, it was bought by Yahoo... http://summly.com

I remember this. Created by a 16 year old[1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by owebmaster »

dom96 wrote: post #57
BronSteeDiam wrote: post #55

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There was, it was bought by Yahoo... http://summly.com

I remember this. Created by a 16 year old[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio

Now we know what kind of mentality took Yahoo down. Marisa Mayer should have read less HN?

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Post by sverige »

puranjay wrote: post #33
panic wrote: post #16

This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.

Most articles could be condensed into headlines

Matt Drudge makes millions doing just that. He's the greatest wire editor of his generation.
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