Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon • Hacker News Board

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by xapata » Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

moinnadeem wrote: post #233

existencebox wrote: post #229

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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…

Soon-to-be a freshman in college. If you don't mind me asking, what career path do you wish you took?

Any specific answer to that question will be useless. Collect data, not anecdotes.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by bgilroy26 » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

utopcell wrote: post #295

gerad wrote: post #265

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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.

You're right, she was only a "teaching assistant for some course"

http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/taawards-616.html

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by veeragoni » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 8:19 PM UTC

Klinky wrote: post #272

veeragoni wrote: post #268

2 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.

why do you think WhatsApp is not that much worth it?! I think its probably worth more. all the text/video data FB uses for its Machine Learning to drive next generation of AI. its almost equalant to FB itself. that many messages, calls goes on it every day using its user base. I think its worth it (but not many people realize it. but FB sure knows what it can do with it)

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by kevincox » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 8:58 PM UTC

allendoerfer wrote: post #201

unexistance wrote: post #179

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I'm not the most versed in encryption & stuff, so does Let's Encrypt prevents / subvert Verizon's HTTP modification? EDIT: ah it's supercookie[1] and apparently a full protection is "Only a VPN or Tor" [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh

With HTTPS you are protected against this, the EFF is saying, that a "full protection is only a VPN or Tor", because you have no control over whether the website offers HTTPS or not. In each of these cases the traffic is encrypted, Verizon can read only gibberish and cannot know where to insert its tracking code, while with HTTP it sees exactly where the HTTP headers end and can add another to them.

Not only does it not no where to put them but TLS also provides verification so that the traffic can't be tampered with.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by palmyra » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 12:05 AM UTC

We had to deal with Yahoo Mail for the last 6 month since Yahoo marks our emails are spam. Guys,

I wish this upon no one...these guys will keep on closing our tickets (6 so far), keeps ask for same information over and over again...just in order to not fix the issue.

we are a small startup and probably not important enough for Yahoo to care about, its been literally a disaster for us...

there is no way to escalate or contact a manager, Yahoo team will keep on ignoring our request to not treat our emails as spam!

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by basch » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 1:03 PM UTC

paganel wrote: post #360

basch wrote: post #349

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who is replicating pipes?

I remember reading somth about a proof-of-concept replica of Pipes here on HN, I might be wrong, though, can't remember the source.

part of pipes was the community of work that you could clone and contribute to. just recreating the technology isnt the same thing.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by TheMagicHorsey » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:36 PM UTC

function_seven wrote: post #101

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #64

I did a little work as a developer for Verizon's ecosystem back in 2007. Let me just say, from what I could see, they were a huge, bureaucratic company without a single redeeming cultural trait. The managers seemed like a bunch of frat boys who had been raised up into positions of authority through some inscrutable lottery, and none of them seemed to possess an iota of analytical capability or human management talent…

Out of curiosity, which Verizon did you work for? The former MCI/Worldcom unit ("VZ Business"), the GTE/Bell Atlantic one (Landline, FiOS, etc.), or Verizon Wireless? As far as I know, that company has remained fairly fractured, and operated as if they were three different companies.

Verizon Wireless.