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by kmavm 15y ago
I think "bias" is technically applicable. I.e., the population of older developers is not comparable to the population of younger developers because of survival (or if you prefer, self-selection) effects. Any non-trivial conclusions (e.g.,
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by kmavm 15y ago
That's a great point. I try to actively fight conservatism, but it's probably a neurologically losing battle; as I get more experienced, I necessarily get more scarred, and will instinctively avoid the areas that have caused me professional
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by kmavm 15y ago
Since I don't see this specifically addressed in the text: I suspect this is a classic case of survivorship bias. The same way the stock market looks better and better the further back you go, because you aren't tracking the stocks of compa
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Facebook Hires A Pixar Animator(sfgate.com)
2 points by kmavm 15y ago|1 comments
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by kmavm 15y ago
Wow, this is the first time since early 2000 I've seen the "greater fool theory" espoused without irony. Maybe it really is a bubble, now.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Facebook engineering is right here, friend. If you have an idea for making our widget implementations less horribly naive, we're all ears.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Excuse me? I'm assuming you read the story, and realize Facebook is the victim of patent trolling here, and has never (no, never) used its patent portfolio offensively?
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by kmavm 15y ago
And has been for months. See the announcement here, which originally went up in November. https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130
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Adam Cohen: Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea?(quora.com)
9 points by kmavm 15y ago|2 comments
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by kmavm 15y ago
No.
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by kmavm 15y ago
Try, e.g.: curl https://socialgraph.googleapis.com/otherme?q=<yourgmaila... Here's what they have to say about me, to anybody with a web browser, even though I've tried my hardest to opt out: https://socialgraph.googleapis.com/otherm
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by kmavm 15y ago
No, there's no permission involved on the Google or Facebook side, or at least, there wasn't for me. My understanding from Google's description above is that they are scraping the logged out facebook.com profiles; your logged out profile ha
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by kmavm 15y ago
Actually, you don't explicitly allow Google to import the data. Google does the following: a) scrape Facebook.com; b) notice that someone named "Roderick Evans" on Facebook is friends with someone named "Danielle Benson" on Facebook; c) not
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by kmavm 15y ago
As a current engineer at Facebook, I would be really surprised to read anyone claiming we don't "take it seriously." It absorbs an enormous amount of engineering effort, thought around new products, and even cap ex: computing visibility for
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A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook(eff.org)
6 points by kmavm 15y ago|1 comments
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by kmavm 15y ago
I grew up in a Marine Corps household, at the height of the Cold War. My father often observed that the military is much more socialist, in the literal sense, than the culture at large: for example, housing, medicine and clothing are not pr
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by kmavm 15y ago
Google and Facebook are different companies. This story is about Facebook.
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by kmavm 16y ago
If you stick to the brightly lit parts of the language, things will work. The Facebook codebase was and is enormous, so the vast majority of PHP has to work as advertised. The one big thing that's ruled out is eval, but other wacky PHP tric
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by kmavm 16y ago
HipHop engineer, here. Unless you consider programming in C++ to be [implicitly] programming in machine language, this doesn't make a lot of sense. Our application engineers write real, no-fooling PHP, at exactly the same level of abstracti
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by kmavm 16y ago
Right. None of which you could reasonably describe as "the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure," unlike HipHop, Thrift, HBase, Cassandra, memcache, etc. at Facebook. Google has contributed a ton of wonderful products to ope
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by kmavm 16y ago
VMware. Diane Greene funded it with the proceeds from her (much smaller) startup VXtreme, sold to Microsoft. The first outside capital we took, IIRC, was in 2002 or so, when VMware was already hundreds of employees, profitable, with several
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People x Process - Facebook Case Study(limitedwipsociety.ch)
1 points by kmavm 16y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Hacker Cup = Much Better(quora.com)
1 points by kmavm 16y ago|0 comments
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by kmavm 16y ago
Microsoft also hires more people per week than have left Microsoft to join Facebook, ever.
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by kmavm 16y ago
All due respect, but I think that's retrospective bias talking. It feels obvious in hindsight that it was a bubble, so those conversations with bearish people are amplified in your memory. The fact that some bears existed proves nothing;
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by kmavm 16y ago
Crucially, nobody was calling it a bubble , until at least a year after it had, in retrospect, popped. Proper bubbles are a product of the madness of crowds, and are impossible to call in anything but hindsight. If we are in the middle of
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by kmavm 16y ago
In the case of spelling correction and query expansion, every little bit helps. Suppose you want to learn that people typing [mazad] mean [mazda]. (This is kind of a silly example, as dictionary- and edit-distance-based techniques can do co
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by kmavm 16y ago
Actually, time won't do it either. Unless you somehow compete with Google today, the data will never come. Google only gets the query volume it does because it is the quality leader. The query volume itself helps Google to retain its qualit
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by kmavm 16y ago
Especially in the case of spelling correction, it is not so much that Google has "solved hard problems" to get the long-tail right, as that they have a monopoly on the relevant data. Unlike all their competitors, Google has 12 years of the
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The Internet Makes it More Likely You Will Be Social, Not Less(gigaom.com)
1 points by kmavm 16y ago|0 comments

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