> We’re obviously aware that Element is (once again) both a dictionary word and a mathematical term.
and a ~30 year old, mainstream skateboard brand owned by the billion dollar, international Quiksilver company.
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if these "toys" were instrumental in driving technological progress, it makes sense to rename it for "conservative" organisations. Some say the smarter ones should give in, so just make it easy to swallow. Although I don't see widespread adoption yet if Matrix bridges aren't implemented by the common household names. Conservative organisations use solutions from Apple or Microsoft. There is no deeper thought beh…
Worth pointing out that some of the largest proponents of Matrix today are governments and civic institutions. The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them. The French government's installation has been in the public domain for sometime ( https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed... ) More recently the German Education authority has announced that it will roll out a 50…
To my knowledge these governments have so far all deployed their own forks with their own branding and features.
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#283> We’re obviously aware that Element is (once again) both a dictionary word and a mathematical term. and a ~30 year old, mainstream skateboard brand owned by the billion dollar, international Quiksilver company.
yep, that was the first thing that came to my mind
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#284No!!! Of all the names in the world why this. "Hey bro, let's chat on Element" ,not quite a ring to it. The hardest problem in computer science strikes again! Matrix,Riot and Libolm are epic projects, I wish them all the success but man, even Riot was a hard sell as a brand. I would seriously be dissapointed if it loses popularity over this. I don't think the project maintainers understand that their core users/fans…
Whatsapp can be an extremely confusing name for non-native English speakers. I'm from Spain and I think 90% of the time I see it written in Spain, it's written wrong (wassap, whasapp, wuatsapp, whatsap, watsap, wuassap, wuassapp, whatsup, watsup, etc.). Sometimes a phonetically "transliterated" version is used instead, like "guasap", which I find more tolerable because at least then it becomes a genuine Spanish word,…
> That said, Whatsapp absolutely dominates chat apps in Spain... so I guess these issues are not that important after all. Or at least, not if you are at the right place at the right time.
This was the case, but the market has changed. At the time, here in Spain Whatsapp was marketed as "like text, but free". We were still spending about 12 cents per SMS back then, or buying silly packages like "100 sms for 10 euro", so getting it was a no brainer. Anyone could have sold that idea.
Nowadays, however, whatsapp is so ubiquitous that I'm not even sure they can be replaced anytime soon, so if someone wants to undertake that task they better have all the help they can get.
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#285Press release pro tip: sidle in what the company or app does very early in. Verging on all of the releases I read on HN don't do this but are for companies I've not heard of. So you leave knowing almost nothing about the company
Yes, please. The first couple paragraphs of this PR I thought I was reading about Riot Games renaming themselves.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangential, but I would recommend considering "What's up?" to be the standard informal/low-register idiomatic greeting in American English. It's like "Ce faci?" in Romanian - indeed you'll sometimes get even native English speakers responding with "Good, and you?"
I second this, as an American. “What’s up”, “hey”, or “yo” (or some combination of the above like “yo, what’s up?”) are all extremely ubiquitous and way more common than more standard greetings like “hi” or “hello”, I in my experience.
So how do you reply to "What's up", by saying "Not much" or repeating "What's up"? I've never been able to figure this one out.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatsapp can be an extremely confusing name for non-native English speakers. I'm from Spain and I think 90% of the time I see it written in Spain, it's written wrong (wassap, whasapp, wuatsapp, whatsap, watsap, wuassap, wuassapp, whatsup, watsup, etc.). Sometimes a phonetically "transliterated" version is used instead, like "guasap", which I find more tolerable because at least then it becomes a genuine Spanish word,…
This is so true. I remember this when I had a conversation with a Spanish developer and he said Java mid-sentence...
“haba”?
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worth pointing out that some of the largest proponents of Matrix today are governments and civic institutions. The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them. The French government's installation has been in the public domain for sometime ( https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed... ) More recently the German Education authority has announced that it will roll out a 50…
>The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them. It's important to everyone, whether they realize it or not.
And if not already, then it is definitely becoming so.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second this, as an American. “What’s up”, “hey”, or “yo” (or some combination of the above like “yo, what’s up?”) are all extremely ubiquitous and way more common than more standard greetings like “hi” or “hello”, I in my experience.
So how do you reply to "What's up", by saying "Not much" or repeating "What's up"? I've never been able to figure this one out.
"How's it going?"
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second this, as an American. “What’s up”, “hey”, or “yo” (or some combination of the above like “yo, what’s up?”) are all extremely ubiquitous and way more common than more standard greetings like “hi” or “hello”, I in my experience.
So how do you reply to "What's up", by saying "Not much" or repeating "What's up"? I've never been able to figure this one out.
I'm actually not 100% sure now that I think about it, but I think what I do is figure out from the intonation/context whether it's intended as a generic greeting (in which case I'd repeat it back) or as an actual question (in which case I might respond with "oh, not much, what about you?" or similar).