Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by thrusong on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:37AM
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Does anyone know why "8" seems to be such an important number at Facebook (f8, Building 8, and I believe way back when they were using Fedora 8 the first time they stated their server operating system, though that is probably coincidental)?
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Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by samastur on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:07AM
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Because in Slovenian you pronounce 8 almost the same way as "awesome" in English ;) (true, but not the reason)
Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by zitterbewegung on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:42AM
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This is a guess but only thing I could think of 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture and Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan who has Chinese heritage.
Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by saurabhjha on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:47AM
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I read it was something like their hackathons started at 8 PM.
Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by mtberatwork on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:22PM
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An existential reminder that bowing to Facebook is our eventual "fate/F8"?
Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by josephmx on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:39AM
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Facebook has 8 letters?
Re:Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sound...
by guptaneil on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:21PM
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I'm fairly sure this is the primary reason, just like a11y is shorthand for accessibility and i18n is short for internationalization. It also helps that F8 looks like "FB" and sounds like "fate" but those were likely just bonuses.