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Twitter Has Replaced Storm with Heron
Twitter has replaced Storm with Heron which provides up to 14 times more throughput and up to 10 times less latency on a word count topology, and helped them reduce the needed hardware to a third.
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Popular Microsoft Apps Unfriend Facebook
Facebook has made changes to their Graph API which Microsoft says has forced it to drop Facebook support from several Microsoft applications. This means popular apps like Windows Photos and OneDrive will no longer exchange data with Facebook.
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Facebook Open Sources Infer, a Static Analysis Tool
Facebook has open sourced Infer, a static analysis tool for C, Java and Objective-C.
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Facebook Open Sources React Native, Year and Network Class, Fresco and Nuclide
Following yesterday’s announcement of releasing ComponentKit, a framework for creating native UIs declaratively on iOS, Facebook has released a number of other projects as open source during their annual F8 developer conference: React Native, Year Class, Network Connection Class, Fresco, and Nuclide.
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FB ComponentKit: Declaratively Creating Native UIs on iOS
Facebook has open sourced ComponentKit, a declarative library for creating native views on iOS.
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React Introduces Support for ES6 Classes
Facebook has released React v0.13, bringing with it support for ES6 classes, as well as new top-level APIs and breaking changes for JSX.
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Potential of Social Capital in Organizations
“After 100 years of building organizations and 50 years of HRM, the future of work now lies in mastering the art of engaging and developing social capital of our organizations” says Bart Cambré, Director of Research at Antwerp Management School. At the No Pants Festival 2015 he talked about unleashing the full potential of social capital in organizations.
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The Hack Language Gets an Official Specification
The Hack language has now got an official specification. According to the HHVM team, the Hack specification, albeit in its initial stage, fills a gap in the documentation available for the Hack language.
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Facebook Stetho: Debugging Any Android App with Chrome DevTools
Facebook has open sourced Stetho, an Android debugging bridge enabling developers to debug their apps using Chrome DevTools.
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Twitter Unveils Digits Login for Web
Twitter has officially released Digits Login for Web, the latest interaction of Digits that extends the SMS-based login system to mobile app's sites powered by Digits.
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Twitter Open Sources R Programming Anomaly and Breakout Detection Packages
Twitter recently announced open sourcing an anomaly detection package in R. Anomaly detection is a major study field as it can denote different things. A major spike in followers or favorites around a topic can happen because something major is happening and this may be something that needs to be broadcast around the network. But this same spike can also happen because of bots and spammers...
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Facebook Open Sources Modules for Faster Deep Learning on Torch
Facebook has open sourced a number of modules for faster training of neural networks on Torch.
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Facebook Flow Provides More Static Typing for JavaScript
Announced during @Scale 2014, Facebook has open sourced Flow, a static type checker for JavaScript. Flow joins Microsoft TypeScript and Google AtScript to provide web developers with a tool meant to catch some bugs in the code before they manifest at runtime.
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Facebook & Instagram Lessons on Android Development for Emerging Markets
Facebook and Instagram shared from their experience improving their apps to perform better on various Android devices and over different network connection speeds during the session Scaling Android Apps for Emerging Markets recorded at @Scale 2014.
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Web Summit 2014 Final Day Review
Web Summit concluded today with Peter Thiel of Paypal and Facebook followed by U2’s Bono. Highlights from last day include Google Programmatic Marketing efforts, Peter Thiel and U2's Bono, Bitcoin speeches and the winners for the ALPHA and BETA competition.