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Yahoo Engineer Complains About Lack Of Innovation At Yahoo

11 points by anderzole 16y ago

sagarun 16y ago
"Right now Flickr video does support HTML5, but apparently only if it detects you have an iPad. " Wait,They just have to enable it for the web. It is not lack of innovation. They do support HTML5. I have seen lot of anti-yahoo posts in tech crunch. This is one of them.
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_ques 16y ago
Every employee has a right (and in some ways, a duty) to criticize his / her employer. This is how a company improves. I am just surprised that given the vibrant startup environment, TechCrunch hasn't been replaced by a decent news source in that format (e.g. a more blog-like version of HN with some sort of an editorial voice).
- SkyMarshal 16y ago
  http://thestartupfoundry.com/ http://thestartupfoundry.com/
- rbanffy 16y ago
  > This is how a company improves. Not sure about publicly criticizing, specially then the thing being criticized looks so irrelevant in comparison to other very cool stuff the company developed (and a lot of it was given to the community as open-source)
Legion 16y ago
The headline reads like one of those ironic Onion "everyday thing that's not really news" headlines.
rbanffy 16y ago
Hadoop, YUI, YQL, Traffic Server... (and it took me all of 5 seconds to compile this very incomplete list of open-source innovative things) Claiming Yahoo doesn't innovate because Flickr doesn't support video tags on the browser the guy wanted is not exactly fair...
DjDarkman 16y ago
Some people still need to learn not to use UA sniffing when there are better alternatives. Here is a hint for Yahoo: http://videojs.com/ http://videojs.com/ I's ridiculous that Yahoo engineers still didn't figure this out yet. The new Yahoo Mail is yet another example, if I access it with a modern browser that it doesn't know, it immediately bitches that it may not work on it, but it would probably not bitch about IE6. Seriously, Yahoo should get it's act together and stop acting like it's 1995.

11 points by anderzole 16y ago

"Right now Flickr video does support HTML5, but apparently only if it detects you have an iPad. " Wait,They just have to enable it for the web. It is not lack of innovation. They do support HTML5. I have seen lot of anti-yahoo posts in tech crunch. This is one of them.

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_ques 16y ago

Every employee has a right (and in some ways, a duty) to criticize his / her employer. This is how a company improves. I am just surprised that given the vibrant startup environment, TechCrunch hasn't been replaced by a decent news source in that format (e.g. a more blog-like version of HN with some sort of an editorial voice).

SkyMarshal 16y ago
http://thestartupfoundry.com/ http://thestartupfoundry.com/
rbanffy 16y ago
> This is how a company improves. Not sure about publicly criticizing, specially then the thing being criticized looks so irrelevant in comparison to other very cool stuff the company developed (and a lot of it was given to the community as open-source)

Legion 16y ago

The headline reads like one of those ironic Onion "everyday thing that's not really news" headlines.

rbanffy 16y ago

Hadoop, YUI, YQL, Traffic Server... (and it took me all of 5 seconds to compile this very incomplete list of open-source innovative things) Claiming Yahoo doesn't innovate because Flickr doesn't support video tags on the browser the guy wanted is not exactly fair...

DjDarkman 16y ago

Some people still need to learn not to use UA sniffing when there are better alternatives. Here is a hint for Yahoo: http://videojs.com/ http://videojs.com/ I's ridiculous that Yahoo engineers still didn't figure this out yet. The new Yahoo Mail is yet another example, if I access it with a modern browser that it doesn't know, it immediately bitches that it may not work on it, but it would probably not bitch about IE6. Seriously, Yahoo should get it's act together and stop acting like it's 1995.