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by xyahoo 12y ago
There's more to the Cuban embargo than meets the eye. It is true that the Southern Florida Cuban exile community wields a disproportional amount of influence. Florida is almost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, and is
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by xyahoo 12y ago
On the other hand: - average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.). - literacy rate in Cuba is higher than that in the USA - Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67,
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by xyahoo 12y ago
But it happens at that level. You can't seriously expect anyone to go through life mistake-free. Look at Google's mistakes, for instance. How much money have they thrown after Google Glass?
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by xyahoo 12y ago
I think it means "far exceeds the expectations at his current role". If you get several FEs, then it's time for a promotion.
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by xyahoo 12y ago
It is. But that doesn't mean they can't rebuild it (it will NOT be easy, but they have the $$$ to splurge on a talented team)
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by xyahoo 12y ago
Agreed. This article starts with a hypothesis ("Marissa Mayer bad!"), and then lays out cherry-picked 'facts' and anecdotes around it. It could as easily have started with "Marissa Mayer great!", and done the s
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by xyahoo 12y ago
(Time to dust off ye olde account again) This article, while making good points, is written with a slant: to sell a book. Broadly speaking, Marissa's big weakness is that she's a tad naive. She thinks too logically, and believes t
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by xyahoo 14y ago
Sigh, not this sh*t again. Yahoo's problem is (and always has been for quite a while) bad middle-management. (See my earlier posts; like Punxsatawney Phil, I come out only on occasion). These middle MF'ers have been running the company into
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by xyahoo 14y ago
From what I can tell as an outsider: Loeb thinks the company is valued at $18 - $20 range or possibly higher (thanks to its Asian assets). If he can drive down the price, he can load up some more. Once he gets a significant voice in the com
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by xyahoo 14y ago
s/microsoft/yahoo/ig and it would be dead on. After reading this rant, I'm starting to think that all software companies become like this after a while. Extrapolating, I'm guessing Google has 2-3 years to go before they are ruined...
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by xyahoo 14y ago
The managers always survived layoffs; the engineers, not so much. Has that changed now? probably current Yahoos can tell, but I imagine there a bit busy right now to post on HN.
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by xyahoo 14y ago
Yahoo has over 18,000 employees (and not 14,000). The extra 4,000+ are contractors. This is a scheme that the bureaucrats at Yahoo figured out pretty early: announce layoffs, and then bring the employees back as contractors. "win-win for ev
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by xyahoo 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Mediocre, petty middle managers are the algae that are sucking the oxygen out of Yahoo. I may get jeered for saying this, but a non-trivial amount of it was a result of Jerry. He kept his buddies around in high
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by xyahoo 15y ago
Notice I said "many cultures". For example: in some Arab cultures, if you sit with your sole (of your foot) towards the other person, it is considered an insult. I remember Diane Sawyer(?) of ABC going to interview Saddam Hussein; she sat
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by xyahoo 15y ago
It's all starting to make sense now. Carol Bartz and Jack Ma did not get along at all. She chewed him out in front of his underlings in Sunnyvale when they first met; and he never forgave her for that. Getting insulted in front of your unde
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by xyahoo 15y ago
A year or so ago, there was a survey done (we had such surveys every quarter) which asked the employees how much confidence they had in the top-level management. The answer? Only 11% said they had confidence. This is what our manager told u
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by xyahoo 15y ago
I apologize if it appeared that I was hating on Bangalore (or Beijing). I was not. What I am against is outsourcing based on the simplistic math that you can get "3 for the price of 1" in Bangalore. When we give Bangaloreans(?) work based s
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by xyahoo 15y ago
An ex-Yahoo here, using a throwaway account. Yahoo's biggest problem is the creamy middle layer of managers. They are usually lifers (as in, been at Yahoo for a decade), or fresh MBAs with a Stanford degree who think that just because they