ambition

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by ambition 15y ago
In the new Auth Dialog, extended permissions have this behaviour built in. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/authentication/
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by ambition 15y ago
This particular number counts monthly active users. Your friends with three accounts would have to be active on the site at least once a month in each account for them to be counted in this total.
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by ambition 16y ago
Solving this problem in general is a major area of research. Look up "Partial Evaluation."
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by ambition 16y ago
I can't and won't say anything about Google, but I will say that your implication that we Facebook employees are greedy, un-hacker-like and unable to get into Google is inaccurate and unfair. I can't argue on any objective basis on the fina
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by ambition 16y ago
Check out U of T's Snowflock. Very fast VM cloning and destruction. http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock
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by ambition 16y ago
The latest nightlies conform to the latest draft. And Safari 5 supports WebSockets. But yes, it's an annoyingly volatile standard-in-progress.
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by ambition 16y ago
What language is this?
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by ambition 16y ago
Did you report it to Facebook before publicizing it?
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by ambition 16y ago
If HN members have any questions or comments about the Automata article, I'd like to hear them.
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Facebook Privacy Guide(facebook.com)
27 points by ambition 16y ago|7 comments
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by ambition 16y ago
I'm going to work at Facebook soon, and I'm paying very close attention to what's going on. I'm looking forward to seeing the other side of the story as it were.
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by ambition 16y ago
So obvious, but only in retrospect. This is insight at its best.
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by ambition 16y ago
Raymond Chen (the author of this article), Larry Osterman and others have been writing great historical MS stuff for years. There's lots of great stuff if you've got the time to read it.
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by ambition 16y ago
There's no SQL behind Hacker News, the persistence code is custom and straight-to-files.
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by ambition 17y ago
By your logic all witnessable acts of good must be viewed with suspicion. I don't disagree, but it's a hard way to approach the world.
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by ambition 17y ago
I'm not sure that the brand awareness of these cases is related to the company naming. For example, I think Bingo Card Creator is well-known mostly because everyone here loves patio11.
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by ambition 17y ago
Could you give some concrete examples of the sorts of programs you mean?
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by ambition 17y ago
I think by and large we agree: It's wrong to expect memorized answers or to ask questions that are so narrow that they only test whether a candidate spent time studying. I'd even go so far as to say that algorithmic questions are probably n
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by ambition 17y ago
It's a good idea, and I think it would make an excellent supplement to current interview practices. There would be some difficult logistical issues: Unfamiliar dev environment, etc. It wouldn't replace whiteboard coding, since you lose the
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by ambition 17y ago
"Gets-things-done" people prepare for technical interviews, such that they don't flub simple questions. The danger for the employer is that lots of Computer Science PhDs end up not writing much code during their research, and may not be a g
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by ambition 17y ago
That's disingenuous. When they say "no built-in functions", they really only mean "don't use a library function that makes this task trivial." Which eliminates 'strlen' in C, 'length' in Haskell, 'len' in Python, etc.
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by ambition 17y ago
I've been asked some of those questions at other top-tier tech companies (that the author isn't criticizing). Conducting good interviews is hard. Watching someone attack a problem or write some whiteboard code is a not-bad system. Pick a pr
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Tempting startup ideas for first-time entrepreneurs(onstartups.com)
31 points by ambition 17y ago|9 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
It is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164338
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Ask HN: Where did your startup come from?
6 points by ambition 17y ago|2 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
I would love to see posts like this from other companies, since I'm very interested in how people decide on what to build for their startups.
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FDA considers regulation of e-health systems(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by ambition 17y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
It depends on if you use the American or British pronunciation of "pasta."
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Microsoft's New Mobile OS(gizmodo.com)
5 points by ambition 17y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
You really want to write code only once, and compile it to two targets: One for the server, one for the client. This is really hard to do in all current mainstream languages. To illustrate: You have some piece of state y, and you have x = f

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