Oculus demos VR selfie sticks and 360 photo spheres and
Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you're there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook's CTO Mike..
Hasnain says:
In case you missed the demo live. This was mind blowing.
Posted on 2016-04-13T19:17:45+0000
Introducing Facebook's new terrestrial connectivity systems — Terragraph and Project ARIES
Connectivity Lab's two new terrestrial systems are focused on improving the speed, efficiency, and quality of internet connectivity around the world.
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Hasnain says:
Fuzzing file systems in the linux kernel. I love slide 3, time to first bug.
Posted on 2016-04-13T07:29:48+0000
What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population • Jupyter Notebook
In this notebook we'll compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income (GDP per Capita) in 50 countries.
For life expectancy, money matters
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that income is closely correlated with life expectancy, with the richest Americans living as much as 15 years longer than the poorest — and even the poor living longer in wealthy areas.
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"“The increase has been approximately three years at the high end, versus zero for the lowest incomes,” Cutler said. “This is important, because it has major implications for Social Security policy. People say, ‘Americans are living longer, so we ought to delay the age of retirement,’ but … it’s a little bit unfair to say to low-income people that they’re going to get Social Security and Medicare for fewer years because investment bankers are living longer.”"
Posted on 2016-04-13T07:11:13+0000
“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on Silicon Valley sexism
Like many a woman before me, I ran smack into the confidence gap.
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Posted on 2016-04-13T07:06:46+0000
Continuous Deployment at Instagram
At Instagram, we deploy our backend code 30-50 times a day... whenever engineers commit changes to master... with no human involvement in most cases.
'Everything We See is Bad'
The more doctors learn about the Zika virus, the more frightening it looks, and money's urgently needed to fight it, two top health experts said.
Hasnain says:
"But Congress has said it doesn't want to spend any new money on Zika until the federal government uses up excess funds from elsewhere. The administration says it's scraped up nearly $600 million as a stopgap." :(
Posted on 2016-04-12T15:22:07+0000
Write opinionated workarounds
And some people did. Unfortunately, despite the promise of open source, many users were unable to make such fixes themselves, and for a rather large number of operating systems the principle of standards compliance seems to be more aspirational than actual. Given the limits which would otherwise be…
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Posted on 2016-04-12T07:45:27+0000
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