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Some more benchmarks on this[0] page Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the li

by ktta 10y ago

Some more benchmarks on this[0] page Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? [0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks like the author of zstd (github.com/Cyan4973) is now contributing[1] to github.com/facebook/zstd And the page layout for lz4[2] looks the same as zstd[0] Anyone know if Yann Collet works for/with facebook on things other than zstd? EDIT 2: In the time it took me to google a couple things, looks like the children comments have already answered my questions. Also, previous discussions on zstd (not that its completely relevant) -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_new_compression_algorithm/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_... [1]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/312 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/312 [2]: http://cyan4973.github.io/lz4/ http://cyan4973.github.io/lz4/

jakozaur 10y ago
Cyan4973 is hired by Facebook. He is famous author of LZ4. Likely they decided to move their sponsor project to their organization most likely for PR.
0xmohit 10y ago
It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Upon looking further, it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now; the repo would have been thus transferred to Facebook. Author's blog [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 [1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/ http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/
- ktta 10y ago
  >It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Yep, and Google too https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd > it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now yep https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73 https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73 On another note, wonder what happens when personal and professional lives can interfere. The profile of Yann Collet in the blog post is the above link and I can't help but think, why am I on faceook looking at a baby's picture on someone's profile instead of Github or at least LinkedIn? Seems like something he might want to keep private (and yes, I'm totally assuming here, I don't know his preferences) Now, I know you can restrict the stuff you post to friends only instead of public like he did, but it is still something people(and facebook for its employees) should consider if they want their facebook profile to become their professional contact page.
CyberShadow 10y ago
> the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We recently renamed https://github.com/D-Programming-Language https://github.com/D-Programming-Language to https://github.com/dlang https://github.com/dlang , and e.g. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd redirects in the same way.
- ktta 10y ago
  Oh, D language is dlang now? Looks like you guys did a redesign of the website and stuff too! I hear good things about D, keep up the great work!
  - CyberShadow 10y ago
    Thanks! To clarify, we didn't rename the language, just the GitHub organization. However, dlang.org is what we've been using as the canonical address for the website, and "dlang" is a much more searchable term than just "D". (Now, if only Google would stop auto-correcting "dlang" to "golang"...)
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greenshackle 10y ago
Presumably the ownership of the repo was transfered from Cyan4973, the main contributor, to facebook, and github automatically redirects.
- ktta 10y ago
  yep, looks like it. Maybe just forgot to update the gh-pages branch.
  - ktta 10y ago
    Downvoted? Wait, I don't think I'm getting that wrong. They probably would've preferred to avoid the outdated links that this[0] proves this. [0]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313

by ktta 10y ago

jakozaur 10y ago

Cyan4973 is hired by Facebook. He is famous author of LZ4. Likely they decided to move their sponsor project to their organization most likely for PR.

0xmohit 10y ago

It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Upon looking further, it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now; the repo would have been thus transferred to Facebook. Author's blog [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 [1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/ http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/

ktta 10y ago
>It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Yep, and Google too https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd > it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now yep https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73 https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73 On another note, wonder what happens when personal and professional lives can interfere. The profile of Yann Collet in the blog post is the above link and I can't help but think, why am I on faceook looking at a baby's picture on someone's profile instead of Github or at least LinkedIn? Seems like something he might want to keep private (and yes, I'm totally assuming here, I don't know his preferences) Now, I know you can restrict the stuff you post to friends only instead of public like he did, but it is still something people(and facebook for its employees) should consider if they want their facebook profile to become their professional contact page.

CyberShadow 10y ago

> the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We recently renamed https://github.com/D-Programming-Language https://github.com/D-Programming-Language to https://github.com/dlang https://github.com/dlang , and e.g. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd redirects in the same way.

ktta 10y ago
Oh, D language is dlang now? Looks like you guys did a redesign of the website and stuff too! I hear good things about D, keep up the great work!
- CyberShadow 10y ago
  Thanks! To clarify, we didn't rename the language, just the GitHub organization. However, dlang.org is what we've been using as the canonical address for the website, and "dlang" is a much more searchable term than just "D". (Now, if only Google would stop auto-correcting "dlang" to "golang"...)

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greenshackle 10y ago

Presumably the ownership of the repo was transfered from Cyan4973, the main contributor, to facebook, and github automatically redirects.

ktta 10y ago
yep, looks like it. Maybe just forgot to update the gh-pages branch.
- ktta 10y ago
  Downvoted? Wait, I don't think I'm getting that wrong. They probably would've preferred to avoid the outdated links that this[0] proves this. [0]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313