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0 pointsamadeusw8y ago0 comments

Microsoft employee here. Today is also the Connect conference. My colleagues who worked on live share knew all along that Connect is their deadline.

Which makes me curious, does Github know what Microsoft is going to announce at their conference, or did Microsoft knew what Github is building?

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atmos8y ago

It looks like one of the main authors of atom is presenting today at QConSF too. Seems like dumb luck. :D

haacked8y ago

Yeah, appears to be dumb luck. You don't put together branding and a demo of real-time collaborative editing in a day.

sixdimensional8y ago

I prefer to imagine that great minds think alike! :) Or more scientifically speaking, the theory of multiple discovery [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

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djsumdog8y ago

Or it's based on some paired programming hype/growth/buzz that happened months ago and both decided to implement it as an option. I mean it takes a while to implement complex feature sets like this, so maybe some trend in the industry got people in both communities trying to implement this at the same time?

It's not exactly groundbreaking. SubEthaedit did it years ago.

twitchard8y ago

My hack-a-thon team did it in 48 hours this weekend, lol. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony

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smilbandit8y ago

not sure it really matters, either way, we win :) By we I mean coders.

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0 pointsamadeusw8y ago0 comments

Microsoft employee here. Today is also the Connect conference. My colleagues who worked on live share knew all along that Connect is their deadline.

Which makes me curious, does Github know what Microsoft is going to announce at their conference, or did Microsoft knew what Github is building?

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atmos8y ago

It looks like one of the main authors of atom is presenting today at QConSF too. Seems like dumb luck. :D

haacked8y ago

Yeah, appears to be dumb luck. You don't put together branding and a demo of real-time collaborative editing in a day.

sixdimensional8y ago

I prefer to imagine that great minds think alike! :) Or more scientifically speaking, the theory of multiple discovery [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

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djsumdog8y ago

It's not exactly groundbreaking. SubEthaedit did it years ago.

twitchard8y ago

My hack-a-thon team did it in 48 hours this weekend, lol. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony

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smilbandit8y ago

not sure it really matters, either way, we win :) By we I mean coders.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse