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by mkjones 15y ago
Cool approach - sounds a lot like what we call "Pagelets" at Facebook. Check out https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389414033919 for a writeup about how we use them.
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by mkjones 15y ago
Using tor wouldn't have helped anonymize his contact list.
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by mkjones 15y ago
This looks like a cool rebranding (or reimplementation?) of gltail: http://www.fudgie.org/ . We used to use that for monitoring some internal logfiles at Facebook a few years ago, and it was actually (embarrassingly?) useful beyond just ey
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by mkjones 15y ago
> Not to mention the incredibly stupid modern practice of splitting the inheritance between your children rather than passing it in its entirety to ONE child. I'm not sure if this is a troll. What is incredibly stupid about the common
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by mkjones 15y ago
It sounds like they're going after small business owners individually, so not necessarily "any old joe." Still, this gives me hope given how hot small businesses are in the current political climate. Perhaps targeting one or two of the wr
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by mkjones 15y ago
This whole round of Open Graph apps that share stuff like what you're reading are all opt-in. You have to authorize the app in order for it to publish anything about you (or even know who you are). (disclaimer: I work at FB, but not on t
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by mkjones 15y ago
Along the lines of weird tools, I've found a kit like http://www.amazon.com/Piece-Apple-Macintosh-Computers-iPhone... tremendously useful for taking stuff apart to replace hard drives and things.
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by mkjones 15y ago
For what it's worth, you can download your Facebook data here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=account (see "download your data" at the bottom).
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by mkjones 15y ago
Facebook doesn't sell anyone's data to advertisers - we let advertisers target ads based on certain criteria. I'm curious what makes you think we sell people's data? (I'm an engineer at Facebook.)
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by mkjones 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the follow-up. Was the "Security Warning" you're talking about from google.com, or from facebook.com? If facebook, do you know what the specific domain was that caused the error (and the reason for the error)? Also, I'm c
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by mkjones 15y ago
Hey, I work on security at Facebook, and when you've turned on HTTPS mode you definitely should not be pulling javascript from anywhere over HTTP (and of course our CDNs should all have valid certificates!). You're correct that this bre
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by mkjones 15y ago
This looks pretty cool. I'm curious how they deal with machine failure though - does Staircar coordinate some kind of redundancy, or when you lose a redis machine do you need to manually fix it and bring it back up with whatever the last c
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by mkjones 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756661
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by mkjones 15y ago
It looks like this app was both automatically classified and manually verified by a person as violating the terms, and I trust that there wouldn't be a double failure in that regard. I'm hesitant to speculate at all since, as you hint, this
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by mkjones 15y ago
Sad to hear we've lost your faith :-/. Hopefully we can build it back, though I know it's often hard to change one's feelings about things. I'm curious what you think we've done that's particularly questionable or thoughtless. I think a l
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by mkjones 15y ago
A lot of that thing a few weeks ago was a mishap, not anyone trying to say "screw you, we'll do what we want." Sorry it felt that way :-/. Hopefully if you were incorrectly affected, things got resolved? Check out https://developers.face
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by mkjones 15y ago
Hey guys, I work on anti-spam at FB (though not specifically platform) and just looked into this. It looks like their app was disabled for pre-filling content so that it looks like users typed it, which makes for a super spammy experience a
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by mkjones 15y ago
It's worth noting that at least CS140 / operating systems (and I think some other systems classes - networking?) are taught in C, not C++.
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by mkjones 15y ago
> My point, is that the knowledge sharing is what's important. Definitely agree, though I think it's more than just knowledge sharing - I find it nice to know that you're "accountable" to some degree when you're writing code. Someone e
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by mkjones 15y ago
There are tools like Phabricator ( http://phabricator.org/ ) that extract your diff and store it in a database, providing a web frontend that allows others to add inline comments and suggestions independent from the underlying revision cont
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by mkjones 15y ago
For online accounts (including email), you're much more likely to get phished than have someone brute-force your password. While keylogging malware is an issue, it's generally less prevalent than successful phishing attacks. There's also
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by mkjones 15y ago
Gotcha. I guess I'm glad it's not straight up malicious spam (woohoo! I'm doing my job!), but rather an (admittedly tougher-to-solve) quality issue. That being said, I think the folks working on feed ranking have done quite a lot of awesom
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by mkjones 15y ago
Is your newsfeed literally 90% "x is friends with 10 new people" stories? If so that's very likely a bug (I work at FB am incidentally a pretty active user and have never seen that).
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by mkjones 15y ago
Sorry to hear you found the newsfeed so spammy - I work at Facebook on keeping spam out of the feed (and off the site in general), and I'm curious what you found most annoying. I'd love to work on reducing it, as it probably annoys other
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by mkjones 15y ago
I suppose we're not "traditional" in this sense, but at Facebook we do somewhat more in-depth code reviews than just spot checking. Generally if you're modifying an existing system, you get one or two people who're familiar with that syste
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by mkjones 15y ago
This is so helpful and interesting! I've been intrigued by yall since I saw your sign in the old SocialMedia building in PA, but figured you were just scareware because the descriptions on your web site are so fluffy. It would be awesome i
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by mkjones 15y ago
Nah, they have a great reason - if they restrict you to alphanumeric characters, it's easier to prevent XSS when they display your password back to you later on in the flow :-).
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by mkjones 15y ago
Glad our fast response is appreciated :-). We try to stay on top of leaks like this and make sure Facebook users aren't affected, even when they share passwords with the affected sites.
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by mkjones 15y ago
I don't understand - what negative effect would this have on your employees workstation or your network - just slower page load times? Doesn't that seem a bit draconian?
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by mkjones 15y ago
Yeah, me too. I don't work on widget stuff in particular, but anecdotally looking at Techcrunch earlier today (and again just now), the Like buttons appear a few seconds before the +1 buttons...

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