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Really? We acquired Whatsapp?
If "we" is Facebook, then yes, in 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#Facebook_era_.282014....
My bad, my sarcasm was apparently lost in written form...
Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
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What's wrong with Chinese food?
It's not the food he grew up with? Most immigrants want the food they are used to from home when it comes to day-to-day eating/dining.
Not many foreigners have problems with Chinese food (the opposite isn't true, Chinese don't like western food as much). Beijing also does well on western-style for when you want it. Cooking is more annoying, you have to be extra careful when grocery shopping due to food quality issues, but variety isn't much of a problem (well, no western style sausage).
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More like Beijing air pollution was affecting his health. That was my reason as well, moving from Microsoft in Beijing to YC Research in LA.
That's amusing in that the LA basin had an infamous "smog cap" for a good stretch of the XX century. Helped a lot getting those seminal strict emission laws in California, I believe.
Yep. LA in the 70s and early 80s was pretty bad. The irony that I'm escaping to here for the clean air! It is really good now, and china can really turn a corner in the future if they work hard enough at their pollution problem. Unfortunately, I just can't wait for that.
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I wouldn't take Palmer for a guy that's hurt by this. He became richer than his wildest dreams and doesn't have to take shit from anybody. He's probably too busy trying to develop a healthy lifestyle that helps him keep the friends he wants to care for some corporate politics like this to register. Let them take the attention, he'll find another venue for his engineering itches.
> ...he'll find another venue for his engineering itches. Will he? I followed Palmer for a couple of years (on MTSB3D forums) before the kickstarter; it was his passion and dedication for hacking old/vintage HMDs that got me interested, and ultimately led me to supporting the KS. He showed the kind of interest and dedication in DIY VR that I hadn't seen since the mid-1990s (and I only knew of one other individual at…
If he can keep his emotions under control, he could just go on working on DIY HMDs, just having kicked off a whole chain of economy of scale improvements while having the ressources to buy what ever he desires to make it better. He doesn't have to think about BOM for his personal headset. 2 4K Screens? Sure, just get the ones from Sony's Xperia 5 Premium. Display Drivers?
He can pay for the right chips & people...
I just wonder where his non-compete clause starts and ends.
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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.
> low grade mass consumption product that's bad for you
Millions of people use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family. It's the platform that has powered trillions of meaningful social connections over the years. It's not junk food or sugar water.
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#76http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hugo+barra
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489213 and marked it off-topic.
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#77It's interesting that he's joining Facebook, not Oculus. Oculus is just a "team" now.
Is Insta a team now? If so please take some of their design chops and apply them to the Facebook app!
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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.
> low grade mass consumption product that's bad for you Millions of people use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family. It's the platform that has powered trillions of meaningful social connections over the years. It's not junk food or sugar water.
Yes it is! It replaced hundreds of billios of meaningful social connections with trillions of shallow connections that most people would be better off keeping at arms length. Not that there's anything wrong with staying in touch with your highschool buddies, but seriously, do you need to laugh at every joke and fawn at every selfie they post?
There's a good reason why friendships would either grow stronger or grow appart over the years. It is called Dumbar Number.
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#80Facebook get more "dumb fucks" ?
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