Why Thieves Steal Soap
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
Hasnain says:
"If you want to buy soap at the Walgreens on Market Street in San Francisco, you’ll need to find a store employee to unlock the display case for you.
Fifty dollar earbuds and $100 bottles of Claritin simply sit on the shelves where customers can pick them up and go. But baby formula, shampoo, and soap are all protected by locked display cases. "
Posted on 2016-04-15T05:30:56+0000
queue.acm.org
queue.acm.org
Hasnain says:
Google's regular disaster recovery exercises. A pretty good read, albeit a bit old.
Posted on 2016-04-15T05:18:21+0000
This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published.
A fuller accounting of the results of a massive government-funded experiment on fatty foods challenges the conventional advice about what is healthy, and what is not.
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Posted on 2016-04-15T05:17:38+0000
Visual Studio Code 1.0 Release
Visual Studio Code releases 1.0.
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Posted on 2016-04-15T04:56:22+0000
Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line of bad code
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers.
Hasnain says:
This is why you never rm -rf with some variables in a bash script (that could be undefined).
Posted on 2016-04-14T17:27:02+0000
Google Cloud Status
This page provides status information on the services that are part of the Google Cloud Platform. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. For additional information on these services, please visit cloud.google.com.
Hasnain says:
It's always an edge case interacting with another edge case
"We take all outages seriously, but we are particularly concerned with outages which affect multiple zones simultaneously because it is difficult for our customers to mitigate the effect of such outages. This incident report is both longer and more detailed than usual precisely because we consider the April 11th event so important, and we want you to understand why it happened and what we are doing about it. It is our hope that, by being transparent and providing considerable detail, we both help you to build more reliable services, and we demonstrate our ongoing commitment to offering you a reliable Google Cloud platform."
Posted on 2016-04-14T05:16:09+0000
Ex-Darpa Head Regina Dugan Leaves Google for Facebook
Translation: One of Google’s top research minds is headed for the company's arch-rival.
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Posted on 2016-04-14T00:26:14+0000
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.
events.linuxfoundation.org
events.linuxfoundation.org
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