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This iconic brand partnered with Meta for the RayBan Stories smartglasses.
What is EssilorLuxottica?
The name of the initial website created by Mark Zuckerburg that allowed users to compare the photos of two students and vote on which one was more attractive.
What is Facemash?
This class of pointers are designed to behave like regular pointers but automatically manage the lifetime of the objects they point to, preventing memory leaks.
What are smart pointers?
He earned a Bachelor of Computer Science from Southern New Hampshire University. Before coming to Meta, he worked as a software developer for Transfinder Corporation in Schenectady, New York. He has wanted a motorcycle since age 17, but did not get one until much later in life; only after moving to the U.S.
Who is Abhinash Khanal?
He graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 from the University of Kentucky. Prior to that, he worked as an electrical engineer at ABB in Shanghai, China. He has a pet cat and has visited four of Colorado's "Fourteeners".
Who is Yu Gong?
This internal Meta project aimed to create a microkernel-based OS designed to improve security and privacy for users while delivering performance and power efficiency on par with or better than Android/Linux for Meta’s product categories.
What was XROS?
Mark Zuckerberg's first profile picture on Facebook featured this
What is a cat?
This C++20 feature enables the ability for functions to suspend execution and resume later.
What is coroutines?
He graduated from The University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Linguistics in 2003. He plays the recorder and works on the Qualcomm BSP for FreeBSD for fun in his spare time.
Who is Adrian Chadd?
As a child, he lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for 3 years (during middle school) and 3 years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (during high school) while his father worked for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and from 2014-2019 he had a side gig as a ski instructor.
Who is Eddie Li?
This 64-bit 4-core Cortex-A53 processor powers the RayBan Stories smartglasses.
What is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 429?
On April 9, 2012 Facebook acquired Instagram for this amount
What is $1 billion?
A programming principle most prominently used in C++ where the acquisition of a resource is tied to the initialization of an object, and the release of the resource is tied to the object's destruction, ensuring resources are managed automatically and preventing leaks.
What is Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)?
He started at Meta on May 12, 2014. His first bootcamp task was to change the timestamp on a Facebook post to show "Just now" if posted less than one minute ago. He has worked at Meta longer than 98.5% of employees.
Who is Chris Kappler?
During Covid he started to collect fountain pens. Hi collection now numbers in the dozens with all sorts of inks, some expensive, some cheap. At the end of the day, though, he says they are all useless since he does not write. -- He also has more than 25 years of work experience at companies including Avaya, Huawei, Hewlett Packard, Citrix and now Meta.
Who is Ken Huang?
This standalone VR headset, released in 2018, was designed to offer an accessible entry point into VR without the need for a PC or smartphone.
What is the Oculus Go?
The purported reason the primary color palette of Facebook is blue
What is Mark Zuckerburg's red-green color blindness?
This C++20 specifier declares a function or function template to be an immediate function, that is, every potentially-evaluated call to the function must (directly or indirectly) produce a compile time constant expression.
What is consteval?
He started an independent iOS development studio in 2006 and created several award-winning apps, two of which were on the top ten best selling list. His apps totaled more than one million downloads combined.
Who is Eric Johnson?
He has a Master's of Electrical Engineering degree from U.C. San Diego. One of his first jobs was as a software engineer at Sasken Technologies in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Who is Madhusudan Chaudhary?
Ray-Ban Stories come in these three different frame styles.
What are Wayfarer, Skyler and Headliner?
This famous person was the featured face in the first Facebook logo created by Mark Zuckerburg's friend and classmate Andrew McCollum
Who is Al Pacino?
This C++ templating technique is used to selectively enable or disable function overloads based on the validity of an expression. When substituting the explicitly specified or deduced type for the template parameter fails, the specialization is discarded from the overload set instead of causing a compile error.
What is Substitution Failure Is Not An Error (SFINAE)?
He most recently worked at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. as a vice-president for content management and OCR technologies. His name means "I am the chosen one".
Who is Murtuza Jaorawala?
He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Texas in 1997. Prior to working at Meta, he was a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President during a 13-year tenure at Microsoft.
Who is Brijesh Bhatia?