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by nbm 15y ago
There are two types of lists based on how they are managed - smart lists, and standard lists. Smart lists are built based on information you provide - the places you worked, where you went to school, where you live, and your family. These
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by nbm 15y ago
From what I can see (I didn't work on this, so it is still a bit new to me as well), the settings revamp should resolve this conflict for you. The default sharing state for new content remains for applications that don't implement the priva
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by nbm 15y ago
Are you referring to this advert where a husband saw his wife's picture advertising a singles site - http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/facebook-dating-ads-2/ In this case, it was not Facebook who put that picture there, but an advertiser, wh
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by nbm 15y ago
You can still get the exact same check-in behaviour with the new system - just don't put a status message or photo, and give your location. It looks identical to how a check-in looks now. You can also now do this from your computer (not ju
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by nbm 15y ago
With the new location changes described at https://www.facebook.com/about/location (which will start rolling out soon), you can attach a location to any status update, and this means you can use the status update privacy controls to contr
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by nbm 15y ago
As described in https://www.facebook.com/about/location , you will soon be able to "check-in" by attaching a location/venue and tagging the people you are with to any status update, whether it is text or a photo or a video - and you can no
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by nbm 15y ago
Are you sure this is still happening? I loaded a few pages, and every resource on those pages was served over HTTPS (and I got no errors, and I'm using Chrome). If you can either reproduce it still, or have any further information, I know
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by nbm 15y ago
If you use the Facebook app and enable contact syncing, it prompts: "If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and you
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by nbm 15y ago
You had a mail sent to your Facebook email address (xxx@facebook.com) and it didn't arrive? Can you try go to Messages (either on the left-hand menu near the top, or the middle icon between friends and notifications) and select the "Other"
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by nbm 15y ago
Considering the comment "As a director of product at Facebook can you tell us whether FB is blocking Google Plus links for any users intentionally?" posted a minute later isn't being voted down, the hidden voting bloc might be spelling peda
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by nbm 15y ago
Are you Facebook friends with your wife's younger sister's dumb drunk friends? If not, then they won't get suggestions on their photo uploads.
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by nbm 15y ago
That sounds like a bug - from what I'm told by a recruiter, you should be able to apply again by now. You can also start the process by emailing the address in the text at the bottom of job once you click on "Apply for this position".
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by nbm 15y ago
I attended as a recruiter, and beyond specific candidates I was interested in talking to not pitching up, it went very well. I really appreciated the effort that particular candidates put into their "booth" (mattyb, for example) and their d
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by nbm 15y ago
Were these company recruiters, or third-party recruiters? I've never really had any luck with third-party recruiters - they don't seem to have an interest in understanding you and your skills, assuming they even understand those skills. My
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by nbm 15y ago
If you have them often enough, I think the transience factor isn't a problem. The tempo of Facebook hackathons seems pretty good to me - somewhere around 8-10 weeks or so between the last three. Doing it once or twice a year in isolation i
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by nbm 15y ago
Agreed on having to have a good enough culture around people, processes, and tools. On the other hand, if your problem is more about animosity between groups or individuals than broken processes and an unwillingness to have them change, the
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by nbm 15y ago
I've experienced both short code sprints and hackathons, and I can recommend both. At Yola we had a series of short code sprints to focus as much attention as possible on a particular project - no interruptions, specific outcomes, everyone
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by nbm 15y ago
Good C++ experience, good algorithm knowledge (sometimes a problem for experienced programmers who don't often have to think about performance), and good attitude will likely get you a job at many companies like Facebook or Google easily en
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by nbm 15y ago
Also, 250 million of the 750 million actives are mobile users, and those are much more unlikely to be fake. ref: https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics I still find some pets and companies using profiles, but most of these ar
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by nbm 15y ago
Facebook reports monthly active users - people who have visited the site in the last 30 days. You (and anyone else who hasn't visited in last 30 days) are not included in that number. Refs: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/dear-tech-press
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by nbm 15y ago
There is some detail in https://www.facebook.com/notes/philip-su/building-video-call... about how the interface between Skype and Facebook works and about the browser plug-in behaviour.
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by nbm 15y ago
You can set up a friends list, and turn on chat only for that friends list, if you like. Set up the friends list at https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/ and then click the little settings icon at the bottom right (in the new chat desig
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by nbm 15y ago
Regarding "No man would ever turn down more responsibility": The conversations reported in stories like this lack the full content and context of the situation. Just because you read sentence A and can think of counter-examples, doesn't me
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by nbm 15y ago
Advertising networks (including Facebook and Google) select the advertisements from their catalog to display for a particular user and page (based on information that they have on the user, the page, and the advert and competing adverts).
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by nbm 15y ago
Facebook allows you to export your data, and to delete your account. Export your data: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=18844 Delete your account: https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=185698814812082
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by nbm 16y ago
Cape Town, South Africa. (Just got my H-1B this morning, and off to "Within 100m radius of San Francisco", though.)
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by nbm 16y ago
192.0.2.0/24 is actually intended for use in examples and documentation, just as it was used in this announcement. Per RFC5737 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737.txt : "The use of designated address ranges for documentation and exampl