This Week I Learned - Week #109

This Week I Learned -

Two billion photos are shared daily on Facebook services....By separating the storage of low-traffic content from that of high-traffic content, we’ve been able to save energy and other resources while still serving data when requested.

* To separate two sentences with a new line within a cell in Excel, press Alt+Enter after the first sentence to continue with second sentence on a new line.

WhatsApp supports 450 million users with only 32 engineers. Erlang was developed by Swedish telecom giant Ericsson over 25 years ago, and now it's finding a home at messaging apps like WhatsApp and TigerText. Even Facebook was singing the language’s praises when it used Erlang to launch Facebook Chat back in 2009—the same year it turned down the job application of WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton.

* "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen" -Edward V. Berard

* "Multitasking is doing multiple things at the same time badly" - Nagesh Kuknoor

..a Colorado study found that the percentage of fatal motor-vehicle accidents involving marijuana had doubled since its commercial distribution became legal

* Mosquito is the deadliest animal as it kills more humans than any other.

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