What a coincidence, another baseless Dustin Curtis blog post making it's way to Hacker News once more. I have nothing personally against Mr Curtis, but this post just topped the "Twitter is watching everything you do" post Dustin published a week ago. Is Dustin just sitting at his computer waiting for people to screw up like Yahoo! so he can publicly vilify them?
Looks like Yahoo! is still the poster child for hate, only second to the PHP language of course. Fair enough Yahoo! Axis is a crappy product and perhaps someone should have said something, it's easier said than done. It takes a lot of failed products to release something good, Google are a prime example of this, look how many failed products they've released people should have internally said no to; Google Answers, Google Wave, Google Notebook, Google Buzz... Just to name a few.
It's a very common thing for an Internet company like Yahoo! knee deep in bureaucracy to release crappy products, and it appears as though it is a very common thing to hate on Yahoo!
Looks like Yahoo! is still the poster child for hate, only second to the PHP language of course. Fair enough Yahoo! Axis is a crappy product and perhaps someone should have said something, it's easier said than done. It takes a lot of failed products to release something good, Google are a prime example of this, look how many failed products they've released people should have internally said no to; Google Answers, Google Wave, Google Notebook, Google Buzz... Just to name a few.
It's a very common thing for an Internet company like Yahoo! knee deep in bureaucracy to release crappy products, and it appears as though it is a very common thing to hate on Yahoo!