I'd love to receive some advice on this topic, Qasar, any chance you could forward me your pointers, too? Plenty of specifics I'd like to know, if there's potential for follow-up.
It was a while ago when I last did it, but the team are perfectly happy to merge-in docs corrections and improvements. IIRC, the CLA is not necessary for docs either, only for actual code.
At the last London AngularJS meetup it was mentioned that the team have 'pull request parties' where they try to merge or close as many contributions as they can, but more of them just keep coming ... good problem to have I guess, but they are aware of it and trying to address it.
Thanks for this. I'm never sure whether my instinct of just treating people/clients well and keeping their interests at the forefront of my mind is yound/naive thinking or whether it pays off. Comments like this re-assure the latter is the case, and that indeed learning how to work with people and learning how to solve their problems is probably more important than most other things I can get good at as a technologist/developer.
#1 resonates strongly with me, too, as I've also been thinking about the best way to put MOOCs into tracks/streams that lead to an end goal (e.g. become a data scientist) and engage learners that way.
I'd love to talk to someone who's on the same page, do you think I could pick your brains on this? If so, a contact email is on my profile page :)
Took the words right out of my mouth. Have you had any experience with getting companies/employers involved in something like this? I've been thinking about how MOOCs would fit into streams (or tracks as someone else here said) that lead a learner to an end goal e.g. data scientist, and companies are the most qualified to come up with the criteria for meeting such goals.
There's a possibility that this publicity changes younger people's perception of Yahoo's. They'll see the BBC headline and a) will now know what Yahoo! is and b) might get motivated to write/learn code and even want to go work for a tech company (even Yahoo itself). Combined with everything else Marissa Mayer is doing, (b) might actually happen, as altruistic-seeming as it might sound.
I'm 21, probably out of the definition of 'younger person' by a while, but even I don't get it.
$30m is a lot for what I assume is an application of SRI's technology.
Still seems to me like Yahoo! is a place where engineers are handed the purse strings, a la 2005 era.
Marissa Mayer was an engineer before becoming an executive.
Was she? Her career essentially started at Google, her rise arguably being one of right place/right time.
For all of the talk about Mayer, I have literally never heard about anything actually interesting that she has done. Instead it's her 90 hour work weeks, n-shades of blue, and abrasive attitudes with others. She sounds like management through and through.
> Still seems to me like Yahoo! is a place where engineers are handed the purse strings
Exactly! :) Assuming the above is meant in a positive way, you might not have said/thought that if it wasn't for this, and other, stories recently involving Yahoo and their acquisitions.
You're assuming an lot of clever forethought on the part of Yahoo. I find it hard to believe their PR team are that cunning. It's more likely that Yahoo are desperate to rejuvenate and buying up the nearest hot startup (at whatever price it takes) is politically easier than forming an internal skunkworks to build something cool, which would be way cheaper.
I'd love to read such a follow-up post. I'm doing exactly what you describe, and for the right reason, with this essay as something of a guide, so thanks for the help and validation!
Immediately noticed one short coming: I can't resize the font any more. In the AIR version Cmd/Ctrl+Plus/Minus just worked (perhaps as a result of the AIR implementation, not a product decision), but in this native version it doesn't and there are no preferences for it, either.
If the HipChat guys see this, please consider it as feature for an update soon?
