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Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by fungi »

tracker1 wrote: post #36
wvenable wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)

Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is. Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working…

> finally broke down and installed FB messenger again,

Prob not great for more advanced messenger functionality but Face Slim (https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim) does notifications and simple/group chats fairly well.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by dang »

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

That's more substantive and less press-releasey than https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-to-acquire-joyent-a-..., so maybe we'll just change the URL to that. Also, congrats!

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

#45

Post by ptio »

Negative1 wrote: post #35

Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how Joyent's acquisition moves Samsung towards their strategic objectives? In other words, how are they going to exploit this technology (and brain gain)?

Samsung generates a lot of sensor/IoT type of data (e.g. smart phones, smart TVs, medical, industrial). They'll need the infrastructure to process and store all these data.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

#46

Post by seanmcdirmid »

wrong_variable wrote: post #27
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Samsung does have a somewhat bad reputation in the valley; e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Samsung-Research-America-R... This could just be clashes between US and Korean management culture, or perhaps just some instability in a new research lab.

Seems like the average complaints people have working at BigCo. Compared to the kind of stuff that Microsoft, Apple have done in the past in the software world. And I do not see how this is bad, maybe Samsung is trying to learn why 'Western' engineering is so much superior to 'Asian' engineering by this acquisition ?

Some of the rumors going on say that management back home is very provincial and are rigidly Confucian (hierarchical), which they enforce on their satellite operations. Also, your basic big corp in tech are quite internationalized from the start even at home; e.g. IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Apple already employ those from many different cultures even in their home offices.

I guess they are making efforts to work on this:

http://qz.com/288923/samsung-is-trying-to-improve-its-corpor...

> And I do not see how this is bad, maybe Samsung is trying to learn why 'Western' engineering is so much superior to 'Asian' engineering by this acquisition ?

It depends if you want to be part of their learning experience or not! Chinese companies have adapted pretty well to acquisitions and satellites, so it isn't an Asian thing. Japanese companies have been known to have similar problems in the past and even currently (though it really depends on the company, and many have had a lot of time to gain experience).

Actually, Japan is another country that is notorious for not being as great as they should be at software, maybe there is a common thing going on?

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by tracker1 »

fungi wrote: post #41
tracker1 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is. Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working…

> finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, Prob not great for more advanced messenger functionality but Face Slim ( https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim ) does notifications and simple/group chats fairly well.

What sucks is I was perfectly happy with fb web, until they started cutting features in mobile (can't post to a friend's wall, can't do a lot of things now). The biggest issue is FB the app didn't respect the environment/usability settings for extra large fonts.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

#48

Post by combatentropy »

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

Thank you for not burying the lede! It's a lost art.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

#50

Post by berns »

ruffrey wrote: post #24

Luckily they did not acquire Node.js edit: I should have been more specific.. when an open source project is under a company's wing and it gets acquired, you don't know what can happen, even under MIT. Look at express recently. Since it's the under the Node Foundation now, this is not a big deal. Had it happened a short time ago, there may have been further turmoil in the community.

I think they still own the trademark. So even if anyone can fork node.js they can't use the name.
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