Tony Tam

Category: yahoo

  • Obsessed With Y!

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    I admit I’m a bit obsessed with working at Yahoo!  I don’t work very very long hours but I spend a lot of my free time thinking about Yahoo!   I don’t believe I’m a workaholic, just someone who loves his job. I used to apologize for being so obsessed, but now I’ve come to terms…

  • Obsessed with Y!

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    I admit I’m a bit obsessed with working at Yahoo!  I don’t work very very long hours but I spend a lot of my free time thinking about Yahoo!   I don’t believe I’m a workaholic, just someone who loves his job. I used to apologize for being so obsessed, but now I’ve come to terms…

  • The right way to say goodbye

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    Today a fellow Yahoo! engineer ping’ed me on IM and asked to shoot some 9-ball.   While we were playing, he mentioned that he was leaving in 2 days for the greener pasture of smaller startups. While I was still taking in the news, I finished shooting in the first 7 balls straight and was about…

  • Seeing Yahoo! From 10,000 Foot

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    (photo is from Barcelona) As an early engineer in the ‘trenches’ I saw Yahoo! from a 5 foot angle. I focused on what I needed to do immediately to keep the site running. As a 7 year veteran, I see things from 50 foot.  I see the business, I try to see and understand the…

  • Y! Superstar J.B.

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    Yahoo has a superstar award every year. My manager won it this year… Here is why he deserves it. 1) always positive 2) never blames, never talk down 3) this year: bulit lots and lots of products Y! Tech, Sprint tool, 2005 Y! News redesign, part of many infrastruture product teams 4) embodies Y! Spirit:…

  • Tonight’s Munich Gamble: Ended In Disaster

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    After a very fillilng meal of traditional German food of fatty pork and dumplings for lunch, I’m up for some sushi. It’s 9:58 and I’m trying to find some good food here in Munich, a search for ‘munich late night dining’ found me this CNN article http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/restaurants/weissmann/world/munich.html#ASIAN Tonight’s gamble: Sho-ya-Sushi—Though the city offers a bounty…

  • A YAHOO

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    Finally made it to DMV after 4 months and picked up my identity. Now I can be at peace.

  • Goodbye Dave Viner and thanks!

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    Dave Viner is leaving Yahoo! tomorrow and we briefly chatted in the hallway.  I told him that he fought a long and uphill battle to make the engineering team better in Yahoo!’s Media Engineering group.  I admire him for staying course and never giving up.  Here is what I remember about Dave He was always…

  • Name That Princesses

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    Kate did a wonderful drawing and I forget which princess was which. Snow White, Cinderella?? , Auora? Jasmine (jumping out of a bottle), Sleeping Beauty, Ariel

  • Yahoo! WiFi Bus

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    Another one of many perks of working for Yahoo! When commuting from San Francisco, I ride the Yahoo! WiFi bus straight to work. I can login while riding and last test I ran, I can get 312 kbps down and 46 kbps up. Granted I end up working on the bus, and it’s a better…