Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: No One Sniffs Glue Anymore
Episode 111
Sleepless in Seattle, Computex Visions , and Freedom Gas
Hosts
Ned Bellavance, Director of Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
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Longer Topics
Go. The %*#@. To. Sleep.
* A raft of new studies have come out recently showing that even 16 minutes of lost sleep has a demonstrable negative impact, in both the short and the long term.
* The pattern is clear: less sleep means poor code.
* Managers could not tell the difference between employees who actually worked 80 hours a week and those who just pretended to.
* When Unions forced the bosses of sweatshops to limit workdays to 10 hours, management discovered that output increased
* There is a measurable, increasing correlation between hours of overtime and injury.
* Jeffrey Pfeffer argued that some 150,000 deaths in the United States each year, and as many as 1 million in China, can be attributed to overwork.
* Additionally, many of these jobs are boring and repetitive, and entirely unfulfilling. This has led to mental
* Jack Ma, multi-billionaire, head of the Alibaba Group, and owner of one of the business worlds WORST haircuts,is totally fine with encouraging a culture that works employees to death.
* 996 is also helping China catch up to Silicon Valley
Computex and the future of computing
* More screens everywhere – weird designs from Asus, Intel, Lenovo and more
* Intel also announced the project Athena effort to create baseline expectations of a premium laptop
* Microsoft laid out the features of a modern OS
Lightning Round
* Pivotal is officially supporting OpenJDK because… Oracle
* SpaceX’s satellites will soon blot out the night sky
* Does what happens on your iPhone really stay o...