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Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by whowalrus »

hueving wrote: post #35
whowalrus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who…

A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response. Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. If you Google his name, you get an article that he was a VP at Google. Put bluntly, who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Explain why this is relevant and not the equivalent of the magazines in grocery stores discussion who the l…

> who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook?

Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company [1] - 124 points, 87 comments

Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality [2] - 99 points, 37 comments (as of the time of this posting)

So I guess some people DO care. Feel free to read through the discussion on both stories as to why those people care. If you're asking me why YOU should care, I don't think I can answer that question.

Also, sorry about the snark in my previous answer.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461387

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488837

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

#42

Post by jemfinch »

hueving wrote: post #35
whowalrus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who…

A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response. Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. If you Google his name, you get an article that he was a VP at Google. Put bluntly, who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Explain why this is relevant and not the equivalent of the magazines in grocery stores discussion who the l…

> Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment.

Neither does asking a question which is trivially answered by Googling. Why are you reserving your rage for the person trying to support community norms, and not for the person helplessly demanding that others explain to him what he could trivially discover on his own?

> A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response.

It makes an important point that someone has asked a question beneath the threshold of questions which contribute positively to the community, and as such I'm happy that it exists, and happy when it's used. lmgtfy links are an act of community self-regulation, whether you think they're "douchey" or not, I'd rather have those links than your pointless screeds in opposition to them.

If you must rage, rage against the person whose time is apparently so much more valuable than the other members of this site that he demands his information be spoonfed to him by humans. Rage against the question "Can someone provide some context as to who this is and why it's newsworthy?" when substituted for the search query "who is hugo barra", which provides more information faster.

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by sAbakumoff »

moron4hire wrote: post #37
Tepix wrote: post #11

It's interesting that he's joining Facebook, not Oculus. Oculus is just a "team" now.

They have been quietly deprioritizing the Oculus brand for a while now. They did a whole series of pop up stores before Christmas at various airports, trying to demo Gear VR. No mention of Oculus or Samsumg, 100% Facebook branding.

Oh what's right! I participated and received the gif that summarizes the experience and there are only "VR" and "Facebook" names, nothing else : http://facebook.fotoopp.co/facebook/jfk-airport/7mqkdbo2

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

#44

Post by owebmaster »

hueving wrote: post #35
whowalrus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who…

A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response. Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. If you Google his name, you get an article that he was a VP at Google. Put bluntly, who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Explain why this is relevant and not the equivalent of the magazines in grocery stores discussion who the l…

> A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop.

Ask why something is newsworthy while not doing at least a basic research to have a minimum understanding of the subject is very juvenile, and the way you did was disrespectful, now you are lecturing the guy about LMGTFY? Full stop.

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by intoverflow2 »

rhaps0dy wrote: post #23
Tepix wrote: post #11

It's interesting that he's joining Facebook, not Oculus. Oculus is just a "team" now.

So what if they're "just" a team now?

Working on progressing VR is far more interesting than working on progressing Facebook (via VR).

And before anyone points out Facebook is interesting to work on because of the sheer size of the userbase the same argument could be said for working on McDonalds, Pepsi or any other low grade mass consumption product that's bad for you.

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by hueving »

owebmaster wrote: post #44
hueving wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response. Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. If you Google his name, you get an article that he was a VP at Google. Put bluntly, who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Explain why this is relevant and not the equivalent of the magazines in grocery stores discussion who the l…

> A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. Ask why something is newsworthy while not doing at least a basic research to have a minimum understanding of the subject is very juvenile, and the way you did was disrespectful, now you are lecturing the guy about LMGTFY? Full stop.

>Ask why something is newsworthy while not doing at least a basic research to have a minimum understanding of the subject is very juvenile

Did it occur to you that I did Google his name? The results are littered with this same article and a wikipedia page that mentions he had VP roles at Google/Xiaomi but there was nothing about why this would be relevant to the HN crowd other than him being a VP at big tech companies. VPs at big tech companies move all of the time and they don't make the front page, so I asked who he was and why this was newsworthy.

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by hueving »

jemfinch wrote: post #42
hueving wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropriate in any response. Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. If you Google his name, you get an article that he was a VP at Google. Put bluntly, who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Explain why this is relevant and not the equivalent of the magazines in grocery stores discussion who the l…

> Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. Neither does asking a question which is trivially answered by Googling. Why are you reserving your rage for the person trying to support community norms, and not for the person helplessly demanding that others explain to him what he could trivially discover on his own? > A LMGTFY link is juvenile, full stop. It's not appropria…

>Neither does asking a question which is trivially answered by Googling.

see my response to owebmaster.

>Why are you reserving your rage for the person trying to support community norms

It is not a community norm to condescend with instructions on how to use Google. The downvotes should make that clear.

>when substituted for the search query "who is hugo barra"

see my response to owebmaster.

I'm sorry if you have some personal connection with the guy or there was a cult of personality thing going with him at your job, but a VP of a company moving to a different company just isn't really normally newsworthy. That's why I asked in case I missed something about him changing the entire Facebook VR direction or something.

Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

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Post by hueving »

nl wrote: post #24
hueving wrote: post #4

Can someone provide some context as to who this is and why it's newsworthy?

Hugo Barra was previously a VP of product development in Google's Android division. He moved to Xiaomi a few years ago, and oversaw their international expansion. That was seen as a pretty big move, since it was probably the most significant poaching of a non-Chinese executive from US tech company by a Chinese tech company. His resignation from Xiaomi was announced a few days ago - presumably in order to move to this…

I see, so is there something significant about this move to Facebook? Or is it just more about the fact that he left Xiaomi?
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