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by tomelliott 4y ago
Fair enough! Although if Evan had access to the codebase after he was an employee and if it was the Facebook codebase that was open sourced then Facebook were involved. The original post sounded (to me) like the OSS code wasn’t the same as
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by tomelliott 4y ago
Pretty sure that isn’t true. If memory serves, Evan open sourced Phabricator at Facebook back in 2010 or 2011, then quit to work on it full time. Shortly after (months, years?) the internal version of Phabricator diverged from the now not F
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by tomelliott 5y ago
Nope: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/presentation/turner
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by tomelliott 6y ago
This is really exciting! Congrats Arathorn and the rest of the Matrix team
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by tomelliott 10y ago
Yes. They got burned badly for 'breaking their promises' after being elected into the coalition. What nobody seems to have realised is that they didn't have anything close to a majority, so of course they weren't able to
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by tomelliott 10y ago
Looks the same here...
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by tomelliott 11y ago
Here's a good list: http://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differenc...
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by tomelliott 11y ago
>> Also, coincidentally, I forgot to kill Facebook last night and when I picked up my phone this morning it was warm. Glad I remembered to leave it plugged in. Maybe, just maybe, it was warm because it was being charged.
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by tomelliott 11y ago
The team is based in London, but when you get here it should be easy to connect with them.
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by tomelliott 11y ago
Facebook has a large Engineering office in London these days and we take interns. If you're interested email me.
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by tomelliott 11y ago
The audience who are likely to make the most use out of a tool like this are not the same as the audience who would be comfortable using a command line tool. I mean, you can replicate the core functionality of this fairly easily using awk,
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by tomelliott 11y ago
Early access? It's already public! https://github.com/facebook/componentkit
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by tomelliott 11y ago
Quite the opposite. Wanting to be able to continue building new products quickly and at scale is the reason we invest in infrastructure like this so heavily.
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by tomelliott 12y ago
I can't sign up, keep getting the follow error message. I'm only trying once, with various email address: "Too many subscribe attempts for this email address. Please try again in about 5 minutes. (#8212)" :(
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by tomelliott 12y ago
It's launched in the UK as well. I suspect for all those seeing 'unavailable' it's just taking time to propagate through Apple's systems.
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by tomelliott 12y ago
How long until you get a reference implementation that supports VoIP?