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And this is the most insightful thing you had to say about this?! Pfft.

How does LogDevice differ from Kafka?

Use the right tool for the right job. By your logic, you should never write an assembler in anything but assembly language.

[Note: I work at Facebook, and have worked on some of the friend suggestion tools.] There seems to be some confusion about how friend suggestions work, and we definitely want to pe…

I think you have been trolled.

You don't need to peel carrots, really. They are nice to eat just like they are!

H-1B rules

The GMail editor feels a LOT faster than the demo provided. Any specific reason?

As a completely independent observer having no stakes in this game, I think that the facts absolutely don't point this way. None of your "arguments" has explicitly refuted the atta…

People: parent is a factoid. What's the point in downvoting that?

Or this: http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/05/facebook-privacy-must-kno...

why creepy?

There is absolutely nothing in there which isn't matter-of-fact. Again, I work for FB (and I joined less < 2 yrs ago) so you will generally diss this as well, but w/e...

How can Google NOT look at that sample page Aaron has displayed? That is truly terrible :( Also, Matt Cutts is generally very honest and public, but in this case, uncharacteristica…

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ -- one of the best resources for c++, imho

XHP development started very very recently and had absolutely nothing to do with HipHop.

This doesn't say that at all. The rendering code you write needs to be modular as well, and has quite a bunch of logic built into it (even when all the model and controller logic i…

it is indeed one of the coolest things i have used. the fact that you have all the HTML stored as objects and available for manipulation makes all kinds of crazy post-processing (j…

That last sentence is the right question. If you think about _that_ for a few minutes instead, you will certainly come up with some arguments (positive or negative); but just sayin…