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Facebook Hires Google 'Moonshot' Exec For R&D (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook on Wednesday said it has hired Regina Dugan to head a search-and-product-development group considered vital to Facebook's 10-year technology road map. In the past, Dugan helped shape such Google initiatives as Project Tango, Project Ara, and smart fabrics wired with electronics. Dugan will lead Building 8, a new group "focused on building new hardware products to advance our mission of connecting the world," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a comment posted on his Facebook profile today. Zuckerberg's 10-year vision for the company relies on major technological breakthroughs on three main fronts: artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and bringing Internet access to the 4 billion or so people who don't have it. "I'm excited to have Regina apply DARPA-style breakthrough development at the intersection of science and products to our mission," Zuckerberg said. "This method is characterized by aggressive, fixed timelines, extensive use of partnerships with universities, small and large businesses, and clear objectives for shipping products at scale."
Bring in lots of H1B workers.
Sell all the customer data.
Buy up competitors.
Move jobs overseas.
Hide money overseas.
Buy politicians.
degeneration of media can be measured when they parrots the company press release like the intentions(merely alleged ones at that) instead of achievements. no caveats, not doubts, no questions.
More and more I'm becoming disconnected from Facebook. Getting old or not caring about idiotic posts sharing and ads?
translation: public subsidies and student debt to enhance Facebook's profit.
Project Ara is dead. Project Tango is nowhere, and smart fabrics is just a wank idea that's been around for years.
She's wasn't poached I think, rather she jumped into Facebook's life raft.
No matter how much this gets talked up, this is as much about appeasing the SJWs as anything else. We constantly hear how there aren't enough women in these positions, and that's the real reason for this hire. Notice that the article talks about past positions held by Dugan but not her actual achievements. This is about diversity and making the SJWs happy, not about improving Facebook.
You can tell they don't know what to do next.
Step 1: let a bunch of self-replicating, self-healing cell towers loose in the wilderness
Step 2: (not needed, existing hardware works)
Because FB welcomes THEM with open arms.
It was obvious from day one that she wouldn't last long. Google is a hyper-competitive place with _many_ of its own ambitious, type-A people fighting for opportunities. This is an extremely difficult environment for an outsider. Adult supervision in the form of the new CFO didn't help either.
Everywhere I have worked, it is the everyday engineers, Programmers and regular hard-worker guys who develop the things that add value to a company. Execs are just there to soak up the money at the top so we don't get too cocky down below.
I really wish folks would stop using "moonshot" or anything related as a metaphor for an open-ended research project leading to an unknown answer. Getting to the moon wasn't *easy* - which is why the world can still be broken down into nations that use metric, and nations that have walked on the moon - but ultimately it was a straightforward ballistics problem.
You're just jealous 'cuz the voices talk to *me*
Zuckerberg's 10-year vision for the company relies on major technological breakthroughs on three main fronts: artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and bringing Internet access to the 4 billion or so people who don't have it.
And cat videos... lots and lots of cat videos.
Fast Federal Court and I.T.C. updates
"focused on building new hardware products to advance our mission of connecting the world to Facebook"
"VP of chucking shit at the wall and hoping something sticks" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue easily, does it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Consider the source.
Is it too late to get Mark Zuckerberg's face assimilated into Locutus yet?
Zuckerberg's 10-year vision for the company relies on major technological breakthroughs on three main fronts: artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and bringing Internet access to the 4 billion or so people who don't have it. "I'm excited to have Regina apply DARPA-style breakthrough development at the intersection of science and products to our mission," Zuckerberg said.
At the end of the day, FB is a cat photo sharing service that scrapes user data and personal info.
Zuckerberg trying to sound like Kennedy in 1961 is ridiculous with these DARPA and "moonshot" references.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range