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At the risk of preaching to the choir, here's some more input from another Yahoo acquiree - pg on 'What Happened to Yahoo' (Aug '10) http://www.paulgraham.com/y

• mscarborough 16y ago
  Sigh. I work for Yahoo, after 6 years of ('failed') startup work. I respect YC and pg immensely. However, linking to this article that is written in 2010 that references the mid-1990s (except for a single mention of Facebook in 2007) seems a bit weak. It doesn't bother me that HN folks dismiss Yahoo as a company, so much as it does that HN folks ignore Yahoo engineering. Hadoop, WOEID, Pipes, etc. For me as an engineer that has worked for a few startups and companies that hoped to be acquired, working for Yahoo is great because we are exposed to a lot of engineering work that is optimized for large scale. I'm sure Google and others are doing a great job of this as well, but why is it an either/or situation?
  • jfager 16y ago
    I don't think anyone who would care ignores Hadoop. It and Yahoo's involvement with it are very well known and credited. WOEID seems pretty niche. I don't work with geo much, so I don't understand right away why I would want to use a WOEID over a simple lat/long. Who else uses WOEIDs, for instance? Pipes would be approximately a billion times more interesting if it didn't have the commercial use restrictions and had a version I could get some kind of SLA for. If Yahoo is so proud of Pipes, why won't you let people build businesses on it? And why did you only post 2 blog updates about it in 2010?