Aug 5, 2008 Posted by The Big K on Aug 5, 2008 in Crap | 3910 commentshttp://superblog.crazyengineers.com/2008/08/05/yahoo-boss-hates-windows/Yahoo+BOSS+Hates+Windows%212008-08-05+05%3A05%3A00The+Big+K

Yahoo BOSS Hates Windows!

This post is not about Mr. Jerry Yang hating Steve Ballmer. This post is about Yahoo’s BOSS framework (or the engineer behind it; precisely, Vik Singh) hating microsoft. It looks like hating Microsoft is the ‘in’ thing these days.

Anyway, I totally dislike the Question Answer Service created on top of Yahoo BOSS. I tried entering few simple questions and it gave me totally vague answers. Frustrated with the service, I typed “Why does this service suck?” in the qusetion box and got following answer (see screenshot) -

Looks like Vik Singh hates windows. Or is that some clever hardcoding in just 50 lines of code he wrote to create this service?