Saturday, January 6, 2018
This Week I Learned Week 196
This Week I Learned Week 196
This Week I Learned -
* Microsoft developed Service Fabric over ten years ago. Service Fabric powers many of Microsofts hyper-scale cloud services, including SQL DB, DocumentDB, Intune, Cortana and Skype for Business, as well as many internal Azure infrastructure services.
* BuiltWith estimates that Bootstrap is being used on over 7 million websites, worldwide. Since version 2, the Bootstrap site has included a Customizer that allows you to pick and choose the bits you want from the sizable buffet of options. With the Customizer, rather than ending up with a build weighing in at over 200 KB (before you even include the jQuery dependency), you can slim things down to as little as 40 KB.
* The average web page is currently 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests.
* �how-to� searches on YouTube are growing 70% year-over-year
* 68% Indian Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are still offline due to a lack of understanding of the benefits of digital technologies and technical skills to get them online.
* Did you know that the first ever mobile phone call happened way back in 1973? It took another 11 years before the world�s first truly portable commercial mobile phone went on sale in 1984. A Motorola, that cost a whopping INR 2.2 Lakhs!
* Corning, the glass and ceramics manufacturer, uses .. metrics to decide which of its scientists and engineers will be named fellows�a high honor that guarantees a job and a lab for life. One criterion is to be the first author on a patent that generates at least $100 million in revenue. But another is whether the candidate has worked as a supporting author on colleagues� patents. Corning grants status and power to those who strike a healthy balance between individual accomplishment and collaborative contribution - HBR
* 40 per cent of Wipro is owned by a philanthropic trust
* Broadly, China leads the U.S. on trade
* A good long-term limit for most adults is no more than 50 grams (or about 12 teaspoons) of added sugars per day, and closer to 25 is healthier.
* Lesser marsh grasshopper lives near Chernobyl and seems to thrive on radiation. Learning why could lead to medicines to ease the side effects of chemotherapy
* According to the American Academy of Dermatology, a persons fingernails grow faster, at about 0.1 millimeters each day, than their toenails that average one millimeter of growth per month. They both also go through a seasonal growth spurt, growing faster in the summer months as compared to the wintertime - Go Ask Alice!
* In the calendar year 2015, S&P BSE Sensex delivered a negative return of 5.03% (CAGR). In contrast, Year 2016 has been a complete roller-coaster, starting with a disastrous January, building up
to an almost-new-high by September and falling back again. The year, nevertheless, ended on a positive note with the S&P BSE Sensex up 1.9% for the year.
* Burnout among Indian doctors is high. This are attributed to poor doctor-patient ratio in India, limited specialty training programmes ("My work doesnt offer me opportunities to develop my abilities"), higher work pressure on a few specialists ("I overlook my own needs to fulfil work demands"), neglect ("When things at work dont turn out as well as they should, I stop trying") as the reasons for the high burnout rates. This results in emotional exhaustion & depersonalisation (unfeeling or lack of empathy for patients) - ToI
* Pronoia is the delusional belief that other people are plotting your well-being
* �If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.� - African proverb
