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It's no longer shameful to work at Yahoo
- lsiebert 13y agoWhen was it shameful to work there?
- finnh 13y agoCertainly it's less shameful than working at Betabeat, judging by the writing in this article.
- lsiebert 13y agoNot that you are wrong about the writing, but the writing on the article is on par with similar content churn based sites, which has more to say about the collective reader base than the writer, in my opinion. They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. I turn off adblocking on long form well-written articles in order to support real writing for just this reason, though I wish there was an automatic way to do that. edit: yes than, not then, and also churn, not church. That's what I get for writing on my phone.
- DigitalJack 13y agoSurely you mean "than." I blame the collective reader base of your comments though, so don't sweat it.
- antrix 13y ago> They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. By the same logic, Yahoo employees shouldn't be ashamed either; they were just doing what management asked them to do!
- sbierwagen 13y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
- ckdarby 13y agoHow does this get on hacker news -_-
- nickporter 13y agoYahoo probably wants to hire devs.
- bitops 13y agoEnough people upvoted it for it to make the front page. If you don't think it's appropriate, flag it and move on.
- sbierwagen 13y agoI used to flag dumb submissions, but since that was usually half the front page, a mod disabled my flag button.
- lsiebert 13y agoAnyway, I went to a recruitment event for Yahoo Mail recently. They had a lot of people from Oracle who came, ancedotally, but their back-end is Java, so that isn't hugely surprising.
- etfb 13y agoMaybe I'm being unfair, but my immediate response to that headline was the traditional response to the statement "size doesn't matter": "Oh." [Pat, pat.] "Did somebody tell you that, dear?"