techcrunch.com— Yahoo has had a a couple of regional “Hack Days”, which are day long events where engineers stop everything they are doing and just build stuff that they think is cool.
Jun 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
Seriously, why do people constantly push the point that one company is better over the other? Opinions are great and all, but I have to admit that both companies do wonderful work and strive to make what they currently have better. I'm all for Google, but at least I respect Yahoo enough to actually know how they work.Before you start slapping logos on your chest and becoming the ultimate fanboi, you should actually learn about the competition. Informed opinions need to have INFORMATION behind them.
I believe 3M do something similar. Rumour has it, that's how the Post-it note adhesive came about. I think they go with the Google type thing, where R&D staff get a certain percentage of time to persue their own projects.
meh... they just stole another idea from google and changed the name.yahoo can barely keep their normal things running right. let alone some "hack" (lol) thought up by one of their engineers.real funny we never heard of this before googles idea hit it big too. yahoo has been around a long time.
I wouldn't be so quick to write off Yahoo. While I haven't used the page to actually search anything in a very long time...they have made some smart acquisitions in the recent past, and it certainly seems like they have an ear to the tracks and understand where the train is headed.
too bad yahoo's hackers cant code any decent html && css && javascript for news.yahoo.com which looks like sh!t in anything other than a 800x600 screen resolution, and considering the huge trailing end of the URLS in yahoo news i can imagine thier servers & content is a HUGE mess that is really beyond repair and probably just needs to be scrapped...
maxthesheepJun 16, 2006
Seriously, why do people constantly push the point that one company is better over the other? Opinions are great and all, but I have to admit that both companies do wonderful work and strive to make what they currently have better. I'm all for Google, but at least I respect Yahoo enough to actually know how they work.Before you start slapping logos on your chest and becoming the ultimate fanboi, you should actually learn about the competition. Informed opinions need to have INFORMATION behind them.
pritchJun 16, 2006
I believe 3M do something similar. Rumour has it, that's how the Post-it note adhesive came about. I think they go with the Google type thing, where R&D staff get a certain percentage of time to persue their own projects.
zimmJun 16, 2006
meh... they just stole another idea from google and changed the name.yahoo can barely keep their normal things running right. let alone some "hack" (lol) thought up by one of their engineers.real funny we never heard of this before googles idea hit it big too. yahoo has been around a long time.
odweaverJun 16, 2006
Engineer 1: HAY GUYS LETS BUILD A POTATO GUN!Others: YEAH!!
argblatJun 16, 2006
I wouldn't be so quick to write off Yahoo. While I haven't used the page to actually search anything in a very long time...they have made some smart acquisitions in the recent past, and it certainly seems like they have an ear to the tracks and understand where the train is headed.
osbjmgJun 16, 2006
It doesn't matter who you say is better, it matters who you use. Who you use is what counts. Actually, what ads people click on is all that matters.
lefthandedlinuxJun 21, 2006
too bad yahoo's hackers cant code any decent html && css && javascript for news.yahoo.com which looks like sh!t in anything other than a 800x600 screen resolution, and considering the huge trailing end of the URLS in yahoo news i can imagine thier servers & content is a HUGE mess that is really beyond repair and probably just needs to be scrapped...