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Re:Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering by _pmf_ on Friday September 19, 2014 @03:13AM (#8339293)
> But that will never happen at Yahoo, there is no will to make an excellent product for a technically demanding audience.

That seriously leads me to ask me what the fuck the engineers are actually doing there if they're not improving a core product.

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Re:Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering by skuhn on Friday September 19, 2014 @06:53PM (#8342916)
In my experience, there is an astonishing amount of work to do just keeping your head above water. Particularly in a corporate environment where you spend 90% of your time getting permission and buy-in for the other 10% where real work occurs. It's demoralizing to say the least.
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