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

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

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...