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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by tuyguntn on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:07AM (#10994275)
Hacker culture of Facebook makes it really valuable company in terms of engineering. Dropbox and Google (Mailbox & Reader at least) should learn something from them. Incredible move and good luck in future endeavors!
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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by eru on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:31AM (#10994819)
Alas, open sourcing Reader wouldn't have done much: the code's all tied heavily into Google internal infrastructure. (Full disclosure: my team pulled the plug on Reader.)
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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by irox859 on Friday January 29, 2016 @10:51AM (#10995851)
Oh you're the villain!

But yes I can see that as joining a Blogger page in the Members widget automatically subscribed you in Reader.

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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by eru on Saturday January 30, 2016 @01:18AM (#11000796)
Alas, I joined after the damage was done.
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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by cbeach on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:39AM (#10994855)
Interesting the Reader developers chose their own infrastructure over "best of breed" Google AppEngine?
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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by ash on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:44AM (#10995436)
Google Reader initial release: October 7, 2005

Google App Engine initial release: April 7, 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine

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