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ex-Yahoo here. I left before the Verizon acquisition completed. I still have a bunch of friends who chat about these things. Yahoo never really had many home grown core products except yahoo.com, finance, sports & news. All other Yahoo properties were through acquisitions and Yahoo did a fairly poor job of integrating them. I believe only a handful of old acquisitions were properly integrated. Regardless there was massive overlap in tech that we had and the subsequent acquisitions under Marissa. Most acquisitions barring a couple had poor tech and business numbers and we were surprised at their huge evaluations. Coupled with massive cultural differences and turf wars, things were not going anywhere. I believe this situation exacerbated when Verizon acquired Yahoo and tried merging AOL with it leading to further overlap. It is fun to see how management thought they could beat Google, FB and Amazon with this strategy. The funnier (possibly sadder) thing was Yahoo always had more data on users than all of the acquisitions put together and then some thanks to Mail, Finance, Sports, News and Frontpage. We did not need their tech or their people or their customers. If only management would've gotten their shit together we probably would've been a decent player in the market. However, the leadership did not think Yahoo's tech was capable and the only solution was to acquire tech and talent. They were mistaken. Management was always chasing after the market leaders and never really wanted to differentiate Yahoo for instance we never talked about having privacy focused premium experiences for our users or ad-tech that preserves privacy at the same time helps advertisers reach the correct audience. This would've given users a reason to use Yahoo products and pay for them. Management never focused on building quality products. Barring Finance and Sports all other sites had issues with data quality. Yahoo News was wrecked. It used to be the source of trusted (aka non-fake news). Management never valued it. Imagine if they would've grown it and kept the brand reputation. Today, Facebook, Google are in hot water. Yahoo would've been a hero. Advertisers would've flocked to advertise on Yahoo because users trusted them and they had integrity (advertisers never want to be associated with shitty, bad content. It rubs off the wrong way on their brand identity and product reputation). All lost opportunities. Sigh.

Long time emacs user here. This is a great resource.

P.S.: I also happen to be a vi user.

China has a population of 1.3B. Isn't it possible that a lot of them have starred it because it is in Mandarin and targeted primarily towards them? You're not accounting for bias.

Big Django fan here. Love the project and framework. I love DRF and other plugins. I am a developer but I haven't ever felt the need to contribute for two reasons - 1) It works 2) The entry barrier is high. For instance, other than some basic documentation, I haven't seen anything more substantial "howto" to contributing including Django developer events. For instance, Carlton Gibson had a DjangoCon 2018 talk about contributing to Django. This was a good start. However, we need more meaningful engagements for example a code walk through for different areas of the Django codebase. Maybe a howto series on hacking on different parts of the codebase. This is more engaging & useful for someone who wants to contribute. It is a step beyond saying "here's a git repo, mailing list and issue tracker. Now, go forth and code!"

> India, being darling of free World...

Please explain how exactly is India "darling of the free world"?

Great, I came here to type out a similar response. You forgot big things like managing finances including investments, saving for kids, home refinancing, insurance payments, etc.

The difference in my household is that I, the husband, not only do all the things that you're talking about but also provide "Boss as a service" for my wife. It puts a ridiculous amount of load on me and burns me out. The difference as you correctly pointed out is men tend to "man up" and just do it.

What happens if the T2 Chip fails? Is it possible to recover data on the disk? Or do we have to recover data from the last backup?

> I tried for EB-1 Green Card twice and got rejected both times. You need 3 out of 10 criteria for Green Card. Over 2 petitions and an appeal - separate USCIS officials gave me 4 criteria. But none of them gave me 3, and their responses were very hostile.

I don't really understand. Do you mean to say that the USCIS officer wanted you to meet 4 criteria while the rules specify 3? Did you take them to court over it?

If you already were on O-1 visa, it should've been easy to qualify for EB-1 GC. The criteria is pretty similar for both. Did you try a different law firm? What criteria specifically did you not meet?

What about it is insane? Do you think H4 EADs are only for low paid jobs or for people who have no job prospects to undercut wages in the IT sector? She is a highly qualified engineer. She works for FANG in the Bay Area and is on a high growth trajectory. What is insane is that people like her and me will take our multi-million dollar assets and exit the United States because this government is so hostile towards immigrants. The US not only loses law abiding, highly qualified people but also the taxes that we pay. Together we pay taxes roughly equivalent to 4x the median HH income of the US. Let that sink in for a bit.

What is even crazier is that both our respective employers will move us abroad with whatever relocation package we need to keep us working for them. We will take our jobs with us. Possibly establish teams abroad which we would've done in the US if the damn immigration system would've let us stay.

Canada requires you to be a PR holder and in the country for 1095 days in the past 5 years to apply for citizenship.

I have 3 offers to write books. I, unfortunately, cannot do that due to the H-1B visa restriction. I have been in US legally for over a decade, making 350K+ annually. Our HH income is 700K USD. Before someone jumps in and say but why don't you apply for a EB5 greencard, it's not so simple either. It is 600K (500K + legal and other fees) of my hard earned money down the drain with ZERO certainty of a greencard for YEARS. I would rather go to Canada when my spouse cannot work here any more (H4 EAD Revocation) than to continue contributing to the US economy where people like us are not cared for.

Why is there no mention of India?

How does Vault verify the identity of the host requesting access to the credentials? I didn't find anything in the documentation that would give me information pertaining to that.

Couldn't you have run two versions of Python at the same time on their systems? Would it have been possible to ship a Python version with your software?

Couldn't they have used virtualenv with Python? Also, Python packages have a way of declaring dependencies including specifying the Python version that your package requires. This should've guarded against any incompatibilities. I don't think any of this was specific to Lua.