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I must be new here. I've never seen that happen.
Speaking of being new, it's ironic that both your accounts are the same age.
Ironic, or suspicious?
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#32Ask PG: What should I have for lunch? PG seems to have become a gnomic magic 8 ball of sorts. I can only hope for his sake that he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated.
I wonder who submitted the first "Ask YC" and "Ask PG" posts?
Ask.
Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
#33Ask PG: What should I have for lunch? PG seems to have become a gnomic magic 8 ball of sorts. I can only hope for his sake that he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated.
I wonder who submitted the first "Ask YC" and "Ask PG" posts?
Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
#34Ask PG: What should I have for lunch? PG seems to have become a gnomic magic 8 ball of sorts. I can only hope for his sake that he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated.
A glass of prune juice or a nice marshmallow salad.
I so want my own site where people worship me. Now all I have is a site where I worship me.
It is the next best thing though.
Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
#35The long term consequence of "exit strategy" at work here. Yahoo "exited" way too soon, and the founders never really had any chance to shape the company. CEO Koogle assembled Yahoo (one of the smaller parts being ViaWeb) and Semel tried to remake it in a Hollywood direction.
Contrast this to Amazon, and later Google, where the founder(s) have had very strong influence on the culture. Another company where the founder exited too soon (voluntarily) is Ebay, and Ebay has no soul whatsoever, and they are doing everything they can to lose their natural monopoly.
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#36Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
#37Only two things would've caused them to spurn Microsoft—excessive self-worth or hubris—both of which are bad.
I'm not sure that I agree here. Despite the public statements to the contrary, I suspect that Yang's motivations are not about the short-term financial plan, but about the long-term survival of the company and of their culture. Microsoft is a massive organization, and has had several problems integrating smaller players into it's corporate structure. My suspicion is that a number of higher-level Yahoo members are con…
Once the shareholders have sold the company off to Microsoft, if Yahoo falls apart, that's Microsoft's problem. It wouldn't hurt the people who had already sold Yahoo, so it's not a scenario that Yahoo's board should be considering.
(One caveat: the Microsoft offer is part cash, part stock. Since part of what Yahoo shareholders will receive is stock in the combined entity, I suppose that predicting a meltdown a year down the road means you're saying the offer is worth less than the current calculated value)
Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
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A glass of prune juice or a nice marshmallow salad.
I so want my own site where people worship me. Now all I have is a site where I worship me. It is the next best thing though.
That's why you should create an alter ego who thinks Matt Maroon is so great he makes a fan site.
Re: Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
#39Ask PG: What should I have for lunch? PG seems to have become a gnomic magic 8 ball of sorts. I can only hope for his sake that he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated.
That's strange, because PG looks less gnomic now than in years past. (To be fair, some may have thought he once looked wizardish, not gnomic.)
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