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We have had a solution for this built into Codex for several months now. It is marked "Beta" in the docs because we have been tweaking the config API here and there, but a number o…

DotSlash is a new, open source command line tool that makes large executables available in source control with a negligible impact on repository size, thus avoiding expensive clone…

If you want to skip the paper and watch the video: https://youtu.be/ANDJ0TKjyWw Disclaimer: I am the person in the video.

Originally started as an extension to Mercurial, but grew into its own SCM with a cross-platform virtual filesystem in C++ and a distributed server in Rust.

As a fellow Facebook employee, FYI, Hacker News is not a great place to get tech support. For the benefit of everyone else on this thread, note that Facebook uses https://github.co…

My name is Michael Bolin and I created Buck. When I started the project, Buck had one specific goal: to make Android builds faster ( https://youtu.be/CdNw6mRpsDI ). At the time, th…

I explained that here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19111982/396304

Why gate your progress on standards committees?

For context, here's a discussion from the Atom forum that we had way back in August about the future of React in Atom: https://discuss.atom.io/t/whats-the-status-of-react-in-atom/.…

More on the background behind this project: http://blog.bolinfest.com/2013/01/generating-google-closure-...

When I met Jeremy at JSConf (this was at the end, during the super-loud party), I asked whether such a patch would ever be accepted, and he said, "no, probably not." Obviously that…