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I never implied all the Yahoo engineers are idiots. In fact I explicitly said the opposite: that the quality was uneven. Uneven means some good, some bad. Als

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• ratsbane 16y ago
  I'd like to hear you talk more about what's happened to Yahoo stores. I worked with a Yahoo store (side consulting) for about five years now. Your Yahoo essay seems consistent with what I've noted. The Viaweb/Yahoo Store thing was very good in the late '90s but they haven't changed much since then and it's very dated now. I think they're coasting on the revenue, which I imagine is slipping away to eBay, Amazon, Shopify, etc.
• chopsueyar 16y ago
  Actually, I have always admired Yahoo Store for the fact that it was/is a solid stream of predictable revenue for Yahoo. What other Yahoo web properties exhibit this? I was disappointed you didn't mention Mark Cuban (Yahoo acquired his company, Broadcast.com, for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock in '99). Fairly expensive domain redirect. Side note: I have many memories of creating RTML templates, while coveting Trevor Blackwell's DIY segway (the 2nd version).
• bambax 16y ago
  Uneven does not necessarily mean "some good, some bad"; it could mean "some bad, some terrible" or "some good, some fantastic" or any combination thereof. In fact, taken literally, it is devoid of meaning, because any group of human beings can be described as "uneven" for any descriptor one can think of. But it is not used literally in the article; it is used as a euphemism for "bad", as opposed to the quality of Google engineers (which one guesses is "even"...?) Now you're playing with words; assume what you mean.