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Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by marcamillion »

aditya wrote: post #7
marcamillion wrote: post #2

This is why I love this industry. This guy has created two groundbreaking/historic companies in a decade and now he is stepping up to bat for #3. I don't know if he will succeed on the next one, or even on the one after that - but I do know that I wouldn't bet against him. Love/Hate Twitter, have to respect @ev for his contribution to communication, the development of Rails and the evolution of the industry. Look for…

The development of Rails?

Well...Twitter was at the forefront of pushing the boundaries of Rails in it's early days. Testing it's stability and scalability.

Sure, it might not have been @ev specifically, but Twitter sure did. Hence @ev did.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

aditya wrote: post #7
marcamillion wrote: post #2

This is why I love this industry. This guy has created two groundbreaking/historic companies in a decade and now he is stepping up to bat for #3. I don't know if he will succeed on the next one, or even on the one after that - but I do know that I wouldn't bet against him. Love/Hate Twitter, have to respect @ev for his contribution to communication, the development of Rails and the evolution of the industry. Look for…

The development of Rails?

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Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by mrduncan »

marcamillion wrote: post #11
aditya wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The development of Rails?

Well...Twitter was at the forefront of pushing the boundaries of Rails in it's early days. Testing it's stability and scalability. Sure, it might not have been @ev specifically, but Twitter sure did. Hence @ev did.

While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case.

Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the decision to use Rails.

https://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/47090747706580992

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by mixmax »

staunch wrote: post #12

Blogger supported 1400 characters. Twitter supported 140 characters. –––––er will support 14 characters. Can't wait for the release!

Old hat - I already did that. Launched right here on Hacker news almost a year ago. Actually on April 1.

http://twittewittewit.com/

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