"Let there be light" is a comprehensive micro-documentary, aimed at enthusiasts of outdoor photography who are taking their initial steps with long exposure night photography in French Alps (Mont Blanc Massif).
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Facebook is regarded as the paradise for anarchies, nudists, stalkers, perverts and serial sex offenders.
However, Facebook's six bug-crunching weeks bootcamp, from day 1 any newbie no-matter-who-you-are joins the company, is a fast way to learn how to build and grow engineering culture in a big I.T. enterprise like Facebook – hard core geek, embraces the concept of "hacking," the idea that anyone can come up with innovative ways to make users happier.
• Bootcamp sets the tone for a successful career at Facebook. When engineers open their laptops the first time they should have a welcome email from the bootcamp manager or their bootcamp mentor and a bunch of work assigned to them to get started on.
• Bootcamp is different for every new engineer. Each individual is coming from a different background and likely has different interests. Once we get past a basic bar of ability to do the job, we work with the engineers to make sure we're providing them with help that will lead to long term success here.
• Bootcamp can help everyone. From the most senior director or VP to the newest college grad, incoming engineers often express concerns that bootcamp isn't right for them. Through talking with people immediately following bootcamp and also at 3 and 6 month intervals we can say quite confidently that it really does help everyone. The entire engineering organization all the way up to Zuck believes this.
• Bootcamp is not meant to make people comfortable. We should be pushing people beyond their limits and encouraging them to explore technologies outside their area of expertise.
◦ If someone is an expert at machine learning, then we shouldn't make that part of bootcamp since we already believe they are experts at it; instead we should invite them to explore technologies that surround their expertise at Facebook.
◦ People building front end software need to understand the stack upon which their software runs. People writing back end software need to understand the clients they will be supporting.
◦ Learning the core code base is important for building good software, no matter where in the stack someone ends up working, and it also improves empathy for other engineers.
• Bootcamp mentors get valuable returns for their time. The engineers get hands on technical leadership and manager experience in a controlled environment.
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Power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers
• Moore’s Law Is Becoming Irrelevant.
• PC is really just a smartphone in another form factor. TVs are big smartphones.
• It's rubbish that ARM-based chips can’t be powerful enough to support everything PCs need to do. For example: image editing and processing.
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The CEO of ARM says power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers.
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YAGNI principle – "You Aren't Gonna Need It" is not as popular as other Agile principles like KISS and DRY maybe because it doesn't have a sexy name.
Behind the practice it emphasise on "doing the simplest thing that could possibly work" in case of bloating software larger and more complicated. Never add functionality early and keep the system uncluttered with extra stuff you guess will be used later.
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Being a Google Chrome user since its first day born but I never take applications designed and developed for Chrome framework seriously. The most popular Chrome application I have obsessed for more than 24 hours is Angry Birds. I use Chrome day in day out, in office and at home, but as a faster web browser only.
One annoying issue caught my attention other day changed my mind to Chrome. That when I try to share a few notes, code snippets between office and home.
Traditional conservative way is copy them into an USB nail key. It's OK but not convenient. Copying in and out, keeping the archives sync is one issue, keeping losing the tiny USB key is the another issue.
How about Dropbox or Evernote?
Both applications are great. Working across platforms from PC to smartphone, secure and very easy to use. Unfortunately, they are both regarded as the terrorist organisations. They are both blocked access in some working place by the security guard.
This leads me come across Quick Note for Chrome:
Quick Note is especially designed for lightweight note-taking. You can use it as a simple notepad, scratchpad, clipboard, or to record todo lists.
I install Quick Note in Chrome in the office (already logged in my Google Account). Add a few notes and code snippets. Finish work, back home, turn on the monitor, and
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Australia has universal health care, compulsory voting, no guns, no death penalty, pro-choice when it comes to contraception, openly gay politicians and judges, evolution is taught in all schools, and our female PM is an unmarried Atheist.
Be sure to declare your pitchforks at Tullamarine.
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