Or you could instead choose to live on the planet where people prove points using facts and figures instead of polling their friends. Google has a little more than one-third of the search market, and Yahoo has a little less than one-third.
That's all true, but we didn't do this deal to impress the blogosphere. We did it because Konfabulator is a kickass software development platform and it will enable us to bring more Yahoo! goodness to Windows and the Mac.
Nope, this came from the new Y! Developer Network (my team, based in Sunnyvale).
There's no pressure to make things x-platform, it's just the right thing to do.
What are you talking about? Ints are 16 bit ints and Longs are 32 bit, not a lot of wiggle room there. That's been the case since VB4 circa 1995.
Forms in MS Office and Forms in VB6 are different things. But the Office forms package isn't part of the VBA language, it's a part of Office. This also explains why "Me" is different (because "Me" always refers to the object you're in -- it's defined by its context).
VBA is not radically different than VB6, they're the exact same language. The programming experience is very different because the libraries you use are different (don't get me started on the godforsaken Office object model) but the languages are identical.
VB6 is of course different than VB.NET but none of that is germane to the discussion.
VBA is actually not used to write scripts. It's used as an embedded automation/macro language in applications like Office and it is the language engine behind VB6. You can't write VBA code and have it run on the desktop by itself, that's why they call it "Visual Basic for Applications."
The scripting engine on Windows is called Windows Script Host and it runs VBScript (different than VBA) and JavaScript (as well as other languages; it's pluggable) on the desktop.
That said, if I had to do this, I'd probably use Python.
Yep, that's absolutely true. And the former staff of Flickr is now enjoying their new roles cleaning bird cages in the office of the Chief Executive in Charge of Leveraging Synergies Moving Forward.
The Goog(tm) was still a business last time I checked. If you want to spend your time doing wild-ass experiments that don't have any relevance to real customers, there's a place for that: it's called academia.
(Full disclosure: I work for Y!)
IMO, this has less to do with their respective ages as companies and more to do with perception. You can certainly have a company that's been around for a while that innovates well (see Sony in the 80s and 90s). Google is the 'new new thing' and they get a free pass on a lot of stuff because of that. (Two words: 'Web Accelerator'.) But there are just as many if not more smart people at Y! and we actually have many more products than they do; we are also releasing new products faster than they are. This is not the way an ossified company operates.
Google's focus on creating a utopia for its engineers (as opposed to creating the best possible products for its users, not always the same thing) is going to start biting it in the ass more in the future, particularly in areas where Y! is strong (like personalization) and Google has absolutely no competency with.
I too miss Kate. Before she made it big on the tube we used to temp together at BigCo(tm). Good times, good times.
Looks like she's plying her trade in NYC now...
It looks like those photos are showing the full version of Google. They've provided a version of the search page that's optimized for PDA form factors for a while now.
You may not want to use eBay from within your Tivo, but on the other hand, you are a big computer-head. We didn't do this for people like you. (My team put the eBay/Tivo app together.)
Um, no, because Microsoft stopped giving out stock options to rank-and-file employees in the last year and a half. (They now give grants of stock instead, which are always expensed.)
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You are assuming that Yahoo doesn't take users blocking sites into consideration when calculating page ranking.
Yahoo will do you one better. If you see a spam site, you can block it.
Or you could instead choose to live on the planet where people prove points using facts and figures instead of polling their friends. Google has a little more than one-third of the search market, and Yahoo has a little less than one-third.
What if we instead released a Games SDK so you could write your own or clean it up yourself?
You are making this up, and you are also wrong. But thank you for playing!
That's all true, but we didn't do this deal to impress the blogosphere. We did it because Konfabulator is a kickass software development platform and it will enable us to bring more Yahoo! goodness to Windows and the Mac.
Nope, this came from the new Y! Developer Network (my team, based in Sunnyvale). There's no pressure to make things x-platform, it's just the right thing to do.
No need to press a key to use a Konfabulator widget, that is one of the big usability advantages over Apple desktop widgets.
http://www.konfabulator.com/
What are you talking about? Ints are 16 bit ints and Longs are 32 bit, not a lot of wiggle room there. That's been the case since VB4 circa 1995.
Forms in MS Office and Forms in VB6 are different things. But the Office forms package isn't part of the VBA language, it's a part of Office. This also explains why "Me" is different (because "Me" always refers to the object you're in -- it's defined by its context).
VBA is not radically different than VB6, they're the exact same language. The programming experience is very different because the libraries you use are different (don't get me started on the godforsaken Office object model) but the languages are identical. VB6 is of course different than VB .NET but none of that is germane to the discussion.
VBA is actually not used to write scripts. It's used as an embedded automation/macro language in applications like Office and it is the language engine behind VB6. You can't write VBA code and have it run on the desktop by itself, that's why they call it "Visual Basic for Applications."
The scripting engine on Windows is called Windows Script Host and it runs VBScript (different than VBA) and JavaScript (as well as other languages; it's pluggable) on the desktop.
That said, if I had to do this, I'd probably use Python.
What about Yahoo Briefcase? 30 megs storage for free with a web interface, pretty simple to use, works from any browser, blah, blah, blah.
Yep, that's absolutely true. And the former staff of Flickr is now enjoying their new roles cleaning bird cages in the office of the Chief Executive in Charge of Leveraging Synergies Moving Forward.
They are. They have this thing called a Founder's Award which is basically a shitload of restricted stock options. These aren't given out that often.
The Goog(tm) was still a business last time I checked. If you want to spend your time doing wild-ass experiments that don't have any relevance to real customers, there's a place for that: it's called academia.
(Full disclosure: I work for Y!) IMO, this has less to do with their respective ages as companies and more to do with perception. You can certainly have a company that's been around for a while that innovates well (see Sony in the 80s and 90s). Google is the 'new new thing' and they get a free pass on a lot of stuff because of that. (Two words: 'Web Accelerator'.) But there are just as many if not more smart people at Y! and we actually have many more products than they do; we are also releasing new products faster than they are. This is not the way an ossified company operates. Google's focus on creating a utopia for its engineers (as opposed to creating the best possible products for its users, not always the same thing) is going to start biting it in the ass more in the future, particularly in areas where Y! is strong (like personalization) and Google has absolutely no competency with.
Um, yeah. Nearly the same thing happened with an Iron Mountain truck in April. It may be time to review your archive plan, there, chuckles.
I too miss Kate. Before she made it big on the tube we used to temp together at BigCo(tm). Good times, good times. Looks like she's plying her trade in NYC now...
It looks like those photos are showing the full version of Google. They've provided a version of the search page that's optimized for PDA form factors for a while now.
Wait. I'm confused. Two Mitches on their board? Yes. Looks that way. OK. Yes.
The chairman of the Mozilla foundation is Mitchell Baker, not Mitch Kapor.
You may not want to use eBay from within your Tivo, but on the other hand, you are a big computer-head. We didn't do this for people like you. (My team put the eBay/Tivo app together.)
Um, no, because Microsoft stopped giving out stock options to rank-and-file employees in the last year and a half. (They now give grants of stock instead, which are always expensed.)