Clobbersmith

I've done a little bit of C++ in the last couple of years. Compared to pretty much any other common language out there the developer experience is full of pain. I can program C++ but why would I want to?

I always interpret it to mean "if you're going to hate anybody, hate me". It's deflecting blame away from his staff. "Full responsibility" is a bad term for sure.

At ~200k/job, why not just have the state give universal basic income to everybody in Racine? Don't like handouts? Have them dig a giant hole and fill it in afterwards.

I was at Yahoo under Marissa and I have mixed feelings on the program.

The first couple of years the people that got accepted as APMs were very good. The flipside was they all left a year in, after their first accelerated promo happened. As time went on and Yahoo lost its Marissa halo, the quality of the APMs plummeted.

You forgot being able to buy a house. If you're content with renting forever it's not an issue, but if you ever want to buy you'd better hope that both you and your partner work in tech.

This was the case when I graduated ~12 years ago, if anything the situation has got slightly better. When I graduated if I wanted to work in software my options were a bank or a consulting company. At least now you can get more stereotypical software jobs.

My counterpoint to the frequent "electron is worse than Hitler and aids combined": what's the alternative? Especially when it comes to commercial software where certain open source licenses are a non-starter and there just aren't a lot of resources for writing desktop apps.

For sure. Flickr wasn't the only company Yahoo mismanaged.

When I worked at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do with Flickr. I hope at the very least Flickr gets resources to develop the site/app/other priorities because they make some pretty neat stuff.

Nice try, Pepsi.

Rails. Rails was basically designed to write CRUD apps. You will 99% never get big enough where rails' downsides become a problem.

Who wouldn't want to paint their walls Turdly brown?

Is there a reason why the installer is in french? My preferred language is set to english.

Taxes in California are comparable to taxes in Ontario.

As somebody who grew up in Guelph, this doesn't surprise me. Few other places I've been to would have a CEO spending his own money to help out complete strangers.

Yes with a but.

I'm not convinced Trump fully understands what NAFTA entails. He talks a lot about the importing of goods manufactured in Mexico and the export of American jobs to Mexico, but to my knowledge he hasn't talked about any other aspect of it. Surely the tech sector would freak out and raise a stink if all their TN employees had to leave overnight.

The CBC has a high level article covering the ambiguities around getting out of NAFTA. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-nafta-trade-1.3657...

Slack also has an amazing UX, I haven't used a competing product that was as enjoyable to use. Yes I know this is subjective, but of the people I know that like Slack actually love it. Whereas I've never met somebody that loves HipChat.

Yahoo employee here, we have a 18 month retention period. After which data is, at the very least, anonymized. https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/topics/datast...

Expedia uses scala now? That's crazy. I worked there about 5 years ago and I'd never have thought of Expedia as the kind of company to play around with Scala. We were in the middle of a Java migration at the time.

How can something "just drop" over 16 months? I think it's amazing that solar is becoming more affordable, but a year and a half is hardly sudden.

We use NodeJS pretty extensively at Yahoo for both front end and back end services and it works well. While some of the complaints are valid, it's not worth flipping tables over.

Promises are standard in ES6 and it is "the way" to handle errors. At least if you want to stay sane.

I have to use Jive at work and I honestly hate it. There was a forced migration from email lists to jive and rather than continue the communication using Jive, the discussions just stopped. Enterprise social networks seem like a solution looking for a problem.