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I wish I could tell my customers, I just need 3 more years to solve these bugs.

FLUX-YOU 11y ago
And get paid millions.
ant6n 11y ago
I wish too that fixing those bugs last week had the same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  Yeah, because she hasn't had enough time already. Or made decisions that have made things worse at Yahoo.
  - ant6n 11y ago
    That's quite the non-sequitur
    - chris_wot 11y ago
      Could you explain why?
- linuxkerneldev 11y ago
  "same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business." You make it sound like solving a complex problem in concurrency or memory management or compiler optimization or power management (that may directly and layer-indirectly affect millions of users, if not billions of devices) is "less impact" then a human-goal management problem of a company like Yahoo. Perhaps you believe Mayer's difficult task of specifying the right color of purple for the Yahoo Mail was somehow high impact? ""one day before Yahoo Mail was set to release, she convened a meeting at Phish Food, a conference room in the executive building of Yahoo’s campus, to talk about the product’s color. For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand. According to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news. "" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...
bluedino 11y ago
Then you could work on the F-35!

And get paid millions.

ant6n 11y ago

I wish too that fixing those bugs last week had the same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business.

chris_wot 11y ago
Yeah, because she hasn't had enough time already. Or made decisions that have made things worse at Yahoo.
- ant6n 11y ago
  That's quite the non-sequitur
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    Could you explain why?
linuxkerneldev 11y ago
"same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business." You make it sound like solving a complex problem in concurrency or memory management or compiler optimization or power management (that may directly and layer-indirectly affect millions of users, if not billions of devices) is "less impact" then a human-goal management problem of a company like Yahoo. Perhaps you believe Mayer's difficult task of specifying the right color of purple for the Yahoo Mail was somehow high impact? ""one day before Yahoo Mail was set to release, she convened a meeting at Phish Food, a conference room in the executive building of Yahoo’s campus, to talk about the product’s color. For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand. According to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news. "" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...

bluedino 11y ago

Then you could work on the F-35!