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by kmavm 16y ago
Another important inaccuracy to add to the catalog of accidental-on-purpose mistakes in the Facemash sequence: the actual Facemash was gender-blind. I'm sure in practice a lot of its appeal was for men looking at women, but male students' l
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by kmavm 16y ago
The reasoning here is the same as photo tagging, or wall posts. Friends can tag "you" in photos without your explicit acceptance of the tag. You have a much more powerful tool for preventing "prank" photo tags/wall posts/group joins than Fa
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Facebook Innovations Jumpstart 'Privacy-Plus 2.0'(cdt.org)
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by kmavm 16y ago
The "could care less" phrasing makes sense if interpreted sarcastically. Imagine "I suppose I could care even less <eyeroll>". This article is rather illuminating: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
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by kmavm 16y ago
The "trivial content" objection to Facebook is selectively applied, IMO. Newsflash: much of the entire Internet is lolcats and porn; many people drive cars to walkable destinations; and antibiotics are over-prescribed. Yet, I'm pretty pumpe
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A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it?(revdancatt.com)
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Apple, Google, Intel, ... admit secret agreements to not poach employees(mercurynews.com)
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by kmavm 16y ago
I initially thought that was a killer point, but on second thought, if the memory is already mapped writably the kernel can avoid remappings entirely by directing the I/O into the already-mapped pages.
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by kmavm 16y ago
Modifying page tables is just a store on x86; since you would be reducing protections (going from unmapped, to mapped read-only), there is no need for TLB flush or shootdown (both of which are, admittedly, getting relatively more costly).
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by kmavm 16y ago
See Facebook's FlashCache if you get tired of waiting: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=388112370932
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by kmavm 16y ago
Rob Pike deserves the benefit of your doubt when discussing UNIX implementations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike The read(2)/write(2) solution from userspace would involve no copying as well, assuming a competent kernel implementat
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by kmavm 16y ago
The Facebook Effect is about the product and company Facebook, as opposed to Zuckerberg, per se. In tone, it more closely resembles business non-fiction, or long-form journalism, than the celebrity biopic style of The Accidental Billiona
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Leaving Oracle(dtrace.org)
64 points by kmavm 16y ago|23 comments
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by kmavm 16y ago
"Move fast and break things " is not the same ol'. I work at Facebook, and we really, really mean it, for better and for worse.
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The Future of Startup Funding(paulgraham.com)
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Google and Slide: Building a More Social Web(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by kmavm 16y ago
C was never obscure in the way that Haskell is now and C++ once was. It was popularized by the project for which it was invented: UNIX, of which Linux is a two-decades-late clone. C's prevalence has always been closely tied to that of UNIX.
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What They Know(blogs.wsj.com)
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Bryan Cantrill, co-inventor of DTrace, leaving Sun(dtrace.org)
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by kmavm 16y ago
"People who get degrees in computer science like to think of computers as “Turing machines.” I suspect this is because it is easier to prove theorems about Turing machines than Von Neumann machines. That’s fine by me, though I will note in
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by kmavm 16y ago
Knuth was writing for MIX. This machine, like all its contemporaries, had a flat memory hierarchy. If you've ever wondered why the CS literature seems full of trees, but in 2010 practice, sets, associative memories, etc., are often implemen
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by kmavm 16y ago
Historically, C compilers really did run an assembler in a separate process and communicate with it via pipes or files. gcc still ships with gas. gas is more oriented to the needs of a compiler than to human writers of assembly code. Some c
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Open vs. Fast, Good vs. Evil, Google vs. Facebook(hueniverse.com)
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Protecting Privacy with Referrers(facebook.com)
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by kmavm 16y ago
My challenge stands. There is no indication that Facebook made a cent off of this bug, nor that any advertiser was aware of the fact that a small percentage of ad clicks contained a user id. "Alleged" employee? My name is Keith Adams, and
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by kmavm 16y ago
Support costs vary with respect to number of customers, and so are a true, and often overlooked, variable cost for shrinkwrap software companies. While many companies generate revenue with support, the basic level of support that customers
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by kmavm 16y ago
You're right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers I hope the intention was clear: with 400 million users, it is a certainty that a feature will be incomprehensible, unusable, etc., to some non-zero number of users.
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by kmavm 16y ago
You're asserting what you seek to prove: that some large fraction, perhaps a majority, of Facebook users do not understand who can see their status updates. It is absolutely true, of course, that some users do not understand who can see t
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The Life of a Typeahead Query(facebook.com)
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by kmavm 16y ago
Let me spell out my argument more explicitly: The evidence being offered here (people writing public status updates with mildly titillating strings in them) has nothing to do with the claim that Facebook users don't understand Facebook priv

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