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by kmavm 15y ago
I work on a PHP compiler and runtime for a living, so I'm reasonably familiar with its past, present and future. While Ruby and Python are superior in many ways, these three languages (and Perl and JS) have much more in common than they do
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by kmavm 15y ago
"Touchscreen that civilians care about."
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by kmavm 15y ago
"Most innovations within the last 20 years came from OSS developers creating incredible techniques used by Apple/MS/etc..." Name one. To take some examples I happen to have first-hand intimacy with: Linux is both original and good, but the
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by kmavm 15y ago
Just as you saw Google suing startups for naming themselves "<X>oo<Y>le" when they were search-related in any way. And as you see every competently run company, everywhere defend its trademarks. Trademarks and patents are ve
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by kmavm 15y ago
Thanks, edited accordingly.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Indeed, it is not wise to run third-party bookmarklets while logged into Facebook. This one may be benign, but the next one may not be. If you want to see the JSON we're talking about, just load https://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead/sear
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by kmavm 15y ago
Hi, my name is Keith Adams, and I worked on Facebook's typeahead. The system has evolved a bit since we launched, but I talked about first_degree.php in the tech talk we did about the typeahead back-end last year: https://www.facebook.com/
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by kmavm 15y ago
My (somewhat casual) understanding is that the Solaris kernel has always, by necessity, supported modules under a different license much more deeply than Linux. Commercially significant software like the Veritas filesystem and device driver
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MQTT Used by Facebook Messenger(mqtt.org)
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The debate on real names and 'nymity misses the point.(quora.com)
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Facebook launches a Bug Bounty program(facebook.com)
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by kmavm 15y ago
No. https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=12008 http://www.quora.com/Who-owns-the-photos-I-put-on-Facebook
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by kmavm 15y ago
> it's only your friends that have access to it. ...and whatever apps your friends have authorized.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Again, emphasizing I'm not an official spokesperson here: but Yahoo! is a reputable company who is not going to sell your email contacts to spammers. The same cannot be said for every random application that gets created. So it's a whitelis
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by kmavm 15y ago
Here's what Google had to say about the exact same product decision in their social network Orkut in 2009: "Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person
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What people are saying on Facebook about Google+.(facebook.com)
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by kmavm 15y ago
You're factually wrong about social sites running on vanilla technology. I bummed more cache misses out of tight paths, and invented more data structures in one year working on Facebook's search backend than I did in any of my nine years w
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In defense of intrapreneurialism(dtrace.org)
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by kmavm 15y ago
It could very easily be the case that Facebook's difficulty in popularizing friend lists was somehow path-dependent: e.g., FB users weren't using it from the beginning, so users had a different model in mind. We agree, I am not saying tha
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by kmavm 15y ago
I'll let Google explain the exact same product decision for their social network Orkut in 2009: "Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easi
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by kmavm 15y ago
facebook.com -> Account settings -> Security -> 'Click here to download a copy of the data you've put on Facebook.'
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by kmavm 15y ago
> It would be a lot easier for Facebook to fix their holes with privacy(essentially copying Plus's Circles) than for Google to become more like Facebook. Circles are friend lists, a feature Facebook has had for three years. Facebook's f
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by kmavm 15y ago
What's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Account settings -> Security -> 'Click here to download a copy of the data you've put on Facebook.' This downloads a .zip file with a static html human-browsable index of all your photos, notes, posts, friends' names, etc.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Yes, the information that is public is public. And searchable. Just like the rest of the Internet. What doesn't happen, is Facebook "selling data": taking money in exchange for ("selling") information you wouldn't otherwise have. It doesn't
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by kmavm 15y ago
> Did non-techies hear about Facebook in the first 2 years of its existence? Every single human attending Harvard in 2005 heard of thefacebook, and almost all of them were active users. This pattern continued as it expanded to other col
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by kmavm 15y ago
Facebook sells absolutely zero user data to advertisers, full stop. It allows advertisers to target users by profile fields; if you think this somehow equates to selling user data, then Google's AdSense product, with the exact same featur
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by kmavm 15y ago
Sorry, I forgot I'd already authorized it. It's the circles UI for Facebook friend lists. Three FB engineers put it together the night Google+ launched.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Well, here's one thing that happened the other night: http://circlehack.com Edit : This is the circles UI implemented for Facebook friend lists. Three FB engineers put it together the night Google+ launched.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Because Google is too proud to use the simple AJAX API that Facebook provides to do so. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&#...

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