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Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground. Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm busine…
Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground. Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm busine…
IMHO, yahoo has bad investors. One of the proof is the firing of Marissa Meyer. As soon as she was hired, the reputation of yahoo has started to improve. All the fights of investors against her until they make her leave had the opposite effect. It takes years to build a reputation and it takes more years for this reputation to bring dividends. I have a similar feeling for Microsoft. The reputation has (slowly) improv…
Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off and no competition worth speaking of), which seems to arise from that 'chasing growth numbers' mindset.
$ cloc-git https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa.git
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IMHO, yahoo has bad investors. One of the proof is the firing of Marissa Meyer. As soon as she was hired, the reputation of yahoo has started to improve. All the fights of investors against her until they make her leave had the opposite effect. It takes years to build a reputation and it takes more years for this reputation to bring dividends. I have a similar feeling for Microsoft. The reputation has (slowly) improv…
Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent engineers and core product development. Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off an…
Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground. Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm busine…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO, yahoo has bad investors. One of the proof is the firing of Marissa Meyer. As soon as she was hired, the reputation of yahoo has started to improve. All the fights of investors against her until they make her leave had the opposite effect. It takes years to build a reputation and it takes more years for this reputation to bring dividends. I have a similar feeling for Microsoft. The reputation has (slowly) improv…
Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent engineers and core product development. Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off an…
(The first sentence was "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly.")
Yahoo time and again releases open source software which is super super helpful to the community at large. But it always makes me wonder why an org with such an amazing engg culture (multiple anecdotes from friends who were at Yahoo, plus the amazing experiences at Yahoo OpenHack each year as a testament to this) could be run into the ground. Really goes to show that engg != business and unless you have a firm busine…
IMHO, yahoo has bad investors. One of the proof is the firing of Marissa Meyer. As soon as she was hired, the reputation of yahoo has started to improve. All the fights of investors against her until they make her leave had the opposite effect. It takes years to build a reputation and it takes more years for this reputation to bring dividends. I have a similar feeling for Microsoft. The reputation has (slowly) improv…
Loss of direction is what stalls big tech companies 9 times out of 10. If you have 10 decision making actors on the board of directors, you have to effectively do 10 different things that each of that guys want, and all of them with compromises made to accommodate the 9 remaining other things that had to be done simultaneously.
My father frequently says that "a public company is a like a woman with 10 husbands, all trying to make love to her at the same time"
$ cloc-git https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa.git http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60 T=64.10 s (224.5 files/s, 28276.3 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Java 6573 106215 102720 537097 C++ 3209 76542 19178 504855 C/C++ Header 2985 42731 57087 1583…
$ cloc-git https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa.git http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60 T=64.10 s (224.5 files/s, 28276.3 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Java 6573 106215 102720 537097 C++ 3209 76542 19178 504855 C/C++ Header 2985 42731 57087 1583…
$ cloc-git https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa.git http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60 T=64.10 s (224.5 files/s, 28276.3 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Java 6573 106215 102720 537097 C++ 3209 76542 19178 504855 C/C++ Header 2985 42731 57087 1583…
Pig Latin?
https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/tree/master/vespa-hado...