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I miss the days when big sites/companies would sometimes go under.
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Marissa Mayer ruined Yahoo
Yahoo's decline predates Marissa. But she certainly failed to do anything to correct its tailspin into the ground.
The company inherited a billion dollars with the Alibaba IPO around the time she became CEO, and she couldn't make it work.
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I think the most obvious example I would add to this list you are thinking of would be livejournal. I also had a handful of SoundCloud-like medium scale music sites that I went to, like Purevolume. I also remember this as a time when Google didn't yet have a reputation for abandoning everything they touched, so you could get inspired by, say, Google Knol or Google Wave. I had hope that Google Reader might grow into s…
There are no real barriers to blogging or using an RSS reader if you want to. (RSS feeds are less ubiquitous than they used to be but they're still common.) And, of course, for saving and sharing bookmarks, it's Pinboard that's buying del.icio.us. I never really tried out Wave but Knol suffered from the problem you'd expect if everyone gets to write their own self-promotional competing article on a topic.
> but Knol suffered from the problem you'd expect if everyone gets to write their own self-promotional competing article on a topic
Now we have Quora, of course.
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It's literally “My boss has this attitude. My boss is Taiwanese. Jerry Yang is Taiwanese. Therefore, Jerry Yang has this attitude.” It is exactly nationality-based stereotyping, based on a single example.
I cannot see the original comment, but reading your comment, I cannot help solving the equation and determining he works for Jerry Yang.
The original comment specified that his manager was female, otherwise this would make perfect sense :)
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#525Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly. I like to think there was an alternate reality where Yahoo didn't run itself into the ground, and took its properties: delicious, flickr, tumblr, its massive userbase across fantasy sports, groups, news, messenger, geocities and answers, its email service,…
Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each: 1. Niceness - a coworker decided to just randomly not show up for work (not WFH, just disappear occasionally). I took it to management, and was told we don’t want to hurt his feelings. 2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo…
Are you me? I had the exact two same issues when I was at Yahoo (2005-2007) basically due to Jerry & Filo. Somehow happy to know that I wasn't the only one :)
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Being the target of racism sure as hell will impact demographics when the population in a group is voluntary. How many african-americans join the KKK?
No, the point I was making is that you can’t point to racism or a lack thereof and make any statements about representation. Both over and under-represented groups can be the targets of widespread racism.
You are correct, and I was incorrectly conflating the two in my previous comment on this subject.
Since I can't edit it, the following might explain my position better: Asians get summarily excluded from a lot of minority-focused programs in tech on the basis of being over-represented. This should stop, and Asians should be included in minority-focused programs in tech. This is because (as you said, and as shown by this comment) they can be, and often are a target of casual racism and stereotyping.
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No, the point I was making is that you can’t point to racism or a lack thereof and make any statements about representation. Both over and under-represented groups can be the targets of widespread racism.
You are correct, and I was incorrectly conflating the two in my previous comment on this subject. Since I can't edit it, the following might explain my position better: Asians get summarily excluded from a lot of minority-focused programs in tech on the basis of being over-represented. This should stop, and Asians should be included in minority-focused programs in tech. This is because (as you said, and as shown by t…
It depends on the purpose of the program. If the purpose is to recruit even more, then they shouldn’t be included because they are already over-represented. Many of the minority-focused programs are about recruitment and increasing the pipeline.
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Since you want references, is survey data acceptable? https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3415130 how about forums? https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/6aa3x9/what_is_wron... News reports? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16834258 > Jerry Yang came to American when he was 10 years old, around 4th grade So ... his parents dropped their culture at the shoreline? You know, there really are differences between…
My point was that “Asians face racism”, because their culture is used to casually make stereotypes like this which may not be accurate. If your boss is from Texas and they're overworking you, is your first reaction to pull out survey data about how 50% of Texans believe in suffering as a form of atonement? Or is it just to say “What a jerk”? When people talk about Peter Thiel, how many times do they link his behavior…
Ok, let's assume Jerry Yang is an amazing boss, loved by all.
The point that culture is useful in thinking through possibilities stands. Half the world's population lives in the Valeriepieris circle (1), and half of that is is water. Without saying Asian, what if I argued that population density seems to incentivize hard work, and one would tend to suspect that folks who originate from high density populations are, on average, more likely to develop a culture that rewards hard work? I could then pile on with the cultural-difference-within-a-culture that cities exhibit. Would that be acceptable?
Applying "racism" as a label to the point I was trying to make is using a label to suppress an idea (2). Can you accept that I didn't have the idea fully formed and needed to argue it out a bit to get this better idea statement worked out?
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Seconded. I bet if we could get a pipe between someone using nuance dragon and an Amazon print as you go book service, we could sell a lot more of these extremely niche books / memoirs.
My business idea inspired by your comment: 1. Users of site request and upvote requests for individual memoirs, and comment with their questions and prompts, which are also upvoted. Similar to an AMA. Upvotes are purchased with preorder deposits, and if the subject accepts, the funds will be transferred from users to site. Similar to Kickstarter. 2. Subject sees that their name is high up and accepts the memoir invit…
I'd love an option, as a backer, to get the raw interview audio. Call me a skeptic on recuts preserving nuance.
But yeah, I'd set aside a monthly budget for backing such memoirs, even if I never listen to the results, simply getting them made about subjects I find interesting feels like a worthwhile use of a few bucks.
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Digg was massive right at the tail end of seeker-net. I myself watched nearly every episode of Diggnation. Great times.
what is (was) "seeker-net"?
Oh, easy. That was the internet when it was mostly composed of enthusiasts or people interested in discovering things. That time has gone, and the internet now is mostly a tool for normies to reproduce their "real" life on the internet. Pictures, personas, various frivolities that early users of the internet were trying to get away from.