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by john_max_1 1y ago
https://deps.dev/npm/octofriend/0.0.18/dependencies - huge list of dependencies
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by john_max_1 1y ago
How does it compare to diffmerge?
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by john_max_1 3y ago
One thing I always wonder is bury vs cremation. Hindus, 1/6th of the world population usually cremate their dead. The bodies are gone. And the bones are washed away into ganges. I would guess Hindus in USA or Europe would do the same.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Companies don't hire people. Managers do. If I am a Director of Engineering with 5 reports and you are a Director of Engineering with 10 reports then you are going for the VP of Eng role on next promotion. Like it or hate it that'
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by john_max_1 3y ago
"core bussiness" is finding and dispatcching drivers including payments. Everything in-app. > I can't imagine trying to deal with 1m+ concurrent tcp connections. 2 million connections on a BSD mchine is doable though not t
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by john_max_1 3y ago
I did. I rejected them as I didn't believe in the future of taxi-app industry.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
I was once interviewed by Lyft and I told them that a 64 GB Mac Book Pro is sufficient to run the core business. The interviewer didn't believe me. I did the calculations in front of him. This was the time, I just learned Rust. I did t
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by john_max_1 3y ago
5% interest rate is breaking the tech companies. If you are dependent on a SAAS service for your infra, ensure that it is either - self-hosted - provided by a big deep-pocketed cloud infra Otherwise, the service might shut down wit
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by john_max_1 3y ago
> If world poulation halved we'd still be at 1975 population levels .. a time when the world functioned. The prosperity was much lower than. The scientific advancement even lower.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
The world population is collapsing at a rapid pace. Our economic growth is based on a growing productive population. Our economic prosperity is based on a growing productive population. Different parts of the world are dealing with populati
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by john_max_1 3y ago
NPE was created in 2017. Facebook had "Labs" in 2011-12. The same idea keeps showing up again and again every few years thanks to a hugely profitable ads business.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Remember Branch - https://www.cnbc.com/id/47736408 - a LinkedIn killer startup based on Facebook graph?
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Every other app that I mentioned and is dead used either Facebook or Instagram graph. None survived.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
You mean Mark Zuckerberg added his voice to Poke knowing that the app wouldn't even exist in a few years? https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/mark-zuckerberg-voice-of-p...
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Various bots, for example, Ordering Uber, sharing Spotify playlists, and other such obscure use-cases that only Facebook employees would engage in. https://about.fb.com/news/2016/04/messenger-platform-at-f8&#x
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Read my original comment again. I asked for successful standalone products.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
IMHO, Angular was superior to React. However, Google being Google, they shot themselves in the foot with Angular 2.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Read my comment again, I am asking for a single standalone product that's fully incubated inside Facebook and that's successful.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
And how successful has Workplace been compared to Microsoft Teams or Slack?
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Here are a few massively successful standalone projects built inside Google 1. Google Cloud - 50+ services with varying degress of success 2. Gmail 3. Google Apps for work 4. Google Chrome
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by john_max_1 3y ago
To add more examples of standalone apps that failed 1. Facebook Gaming app - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/30/meta-shutting-down-facebook-gaming-app/ 2. Facebook livestreaming app - https:/&#x2
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by john_max_1 3y ago
> Isn't that the exact thing that Threads would need to succeed? It's a new feeds-based app, piggybacking their existing social graph. That means you have followers/following immediately. Remember Facebook Watch (videos) -
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by john_max_1 3y ago
I gave several examples of standalone apps from Facebook. I can count at least 10. And none of them exist today.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Instagram is good at improving their app experience by incorporating features. However, it is not good at launching standalone apps either. Consider 1. Boomerang - https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/instagram-launches
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Instagram is good at improving their app experience by incorporating features. However, it is not good at launching standalone apps either. Consider 1. Boomerang - https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/instagram-launches
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Thanks. TIL. Updated my comment.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
1. Bonfire - HouseParty clone https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/3/18528317/facebook-bonfire-shutdown-group-video-chat-houseparty-clone 2. Poke - Snap clone https://www.vox.com/2018&#x2F
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by john_max_1 3y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-beluga/
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by john_max_1 3y ago
That was a natural extension to Facebook conversations and was not a standalone product.
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by john_max_1 3y ago
Facebook Messnger was a service named Beluga - https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-beluga/

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