Can confirm they started our as an intern, I had to fix the internal tools that broke.
The main issue was that at this point in time, we were relying on people’s Unix names to directly to setup the person’s dev box. Obviously, <unixname>.dev.facebook.com with the unixname of www was going to lead to issues. It just broke things internally and was fixed pretty quickly.
No, uber tracks via the drivers GPS (at least in the US and UK). I have ordered Ubers for my family and friends; my phone wasn't heading towards the destination, but I could track where the car was on my phone. I find this a useful safety feature to make sure my family gets home.
Medium to large companies, they need some sort of calendaring and meeting room booking system. This is where outlook (more importantly exchange) comes into the picture. I don't think it's the best solution out there, but it's a solution that works reasonably well.
I also don't really like that email and calendaring are tied together, I'd love to see a robust solution that works across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Yishan Wong wrote about this a few years ago.[1]
So, this would work great for personal email and small companies, but I don't see it replacing the email client of the larger ones. I'd love to see gmail and microsoft give some of these search/indexing features.
Yes, Outlook is great for time planning .. if all of your team uses it. However, most people that send me emails use GMail or other web mailers and thus Exchange is not really a benefit in that regard.
Before i started my work on this client, i used Outlook 2011 and i'm still paying for hosted Exchange so yes, i think they are both reasonably designed products.
It's just that Outlook doesn't suit my workflow of dealing with email. And it can be pretty slow at times. And it sometimes doesn't sync well after offline mode.
Me too! Before we used fruitstrap[0] we used DeviceAnywhere. This was a 2U rack unit that contained a franken-iPhone. The hardware buttons were soldered up to GPIO on the DeviceAnywhere.
For those who showed interest in learning more about our infrastructure/automated testing process, if you could drop me an email? gp at our corp domain fb.com.
I don't work on the team anymore, but I can probably start off a thread with the right people involved from Facebook's side.
The main issue was that at this point in time, we were relying on people’s Unix names to directly to setup the person’s dev box. Obviously, <unixname>.dev.facebook.com with the unixname of www was going to lead to issues. It just broke things internally and was fixed pretty quickly.