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Balaji S. Srinivasan @balajis
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Would be interesting if MS/Github leads to some kind of fusion of atom.io and code.visualstudio.com. If the combo was open-source, customizable, and had a modern API for writing plugins…that might actually get me to try something other than emacs. @natfriedman
Aha, I see someone else had the same thought a while back. Atom and VisualStudio are both Electron-based, so the idea isn't that crazy. i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…
Would be interested in the opinions of folks who have heavily customized emacs or vim environments, and who work in Mac and Linux environments with a number of different languages. As of 2018, are Atom and/or Code as good?
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This is an interesting prediction. I guess we’re already there if you think of Google Search as a function that takes in a string and returns a list of URLs. But it’s a thought provoking exercise to try reducing a company’s core competency to the functions it implements.
Now, obviously Google Search has more than one or two people working on that function. But it’s a billion dollar function nonetheless. Others that likely already qualify: geocoding, face recognition, machine translation. All have simple input with high backend complexity.
Good question for a software company: what’s your billion dollar function? For Facebook it’s arguably the* function that advertisers call to put ads in front of users. The defensibility comes from their database.

* Not quite a single function today, but probably could be.
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0) So I read @L4ventures Counterfactual @statechannels paper live on a zoom video call earlier today.

1) Before I share my thoughts, I'd like to thank @technocrypto for his years of research. Everything anyone knows about state channels theory he thought of first.

jeffcoleman.ca/state-channels/
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Video:

drive.google.com/file/d/16cfBWN…
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1/ I'm simply baffled how many folks see the @github acquisition as net negative.

GitHub has been the most important thing to happen to Open Source in history.
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Keyword? Git.

The git workflow was democratized by GitHub.
3/ GitHub created the first radically decentralized, social network bringing together developers from all around the world.

Node.js' success largely stems from GitHub's network effects.
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Today is a challenge - on and off for the next 12 hours, now that the GDPR dust is settling, I am going to try and Tweet about nothing but the #EUCopyrightDirective - BECAUSE, YE GODS, YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS:

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HT @mmasnick CC @OpenRightsGroup
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