Bootcamp! How Facebook indoctrinates every new engineer it hires

Facebook engineers all go through six weeks of indoctrination and learning the hard way to find the teams they'll be on for years. Here's our look inside the bootcamp process.

Famous hackers discuss Zuckerberg’s “Hacker Way” comments

In last week’s SEC filing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg poked a huge hornet’s nest when he referenced “The Hacker Way.”

Some of the pioneers of the hacker ethos and culture have previously defined hacking as having strong connections to tinkering, …

Week in review: You know you want a $25 computer that can run Quake 3

Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

“This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3“
It’s hard to believe, but the Raspberry Pi computer …

Exclusive: Facebook opens up about open-source software

This is the second of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. The first installment focused on hardware. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir