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https://deps.dev/npm/octofriend/0.0.18/dependencies - huge list of dependencies

How does it compare to diffmerge?

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 …

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 En…

"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 connecti…

I did. I rejected them as I didn't believe in the future of taxi-app industry.

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 …

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 clo…

> 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.

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 popula…

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.

Remember Branch - https://www.cnbc.com/id/47736408 - a LinkedIn killer startup based on Facebook graph?

Every other app that I mentioned and is dead used either Facebook or Instagram graph. None survived.

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...

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/2016/0…

Read my original comment again. I asked for successful standalone products.

IMHO, Angular was superior to React. However, Google being Google, they shot themselves in the foot with Angular 2.

Read my comment again, I am asking for a single standalone product that's fully incubated inside Facebook and that's successful.

And how successful has Workplace been compared to Microsoft Teams or Slack?

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. Googl…

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…

> 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 immed…

I gave several examples of standalone apps from Facebook. I can count at least 10. And none of them exist today.