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> small shop Like Facebook? Netflix? The BBC?

Anyone know if the IAM roles and security groups are applied at the individual container level or at the instance level?

In practice it wouldn't make much sense to cache whole query responses to GraphQL queries because your hit rates would be too low due to the variability of the queries. You end up …

As an ex-Facebook employee, I can't wait for this to be released to the public. It is hard for me to overstate how much this infrastructure makes building products a joy, not to me…

If you do in SASS .Foo { a { /* stuff */ } } It translates into: .Foo a { /* stuff */ } CSS is evaluated right to left, so this means every time an is encountered in the page it ha…

In other financial news, Twitter shares fell 7.2% on the Oculus deal. Tesla lost 3.4% on the Oculus deal!

Anyone know of a good place to download stats? They don't have to be live. It'd be fun to build some analysis tools.

When I was studying this in college I always found the "Eigenfaces" example very enlightening ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface ). In case you're not familiar with them, the…

Alternate title: How to self-XSS your Facebook account.

It is not possible. This is a serious flaw in Android's permissions model IMO. Everything must be asked for up-front in the app's manifest. You cannot ask for more permissions at r…

These pie charts are bad. You shouldn't have the same browser switch colors as you go through the charts. IE starts as purple then is blue; Firefox makes it from blue to purple to …

Please, for the love of the web, implement browser history management so that I can use my back button.

In college I lived in an old apartment building that had been updated to have 3-prong outlets. One day I was wiring up some audio equipment for a party. As I hooked my computer to …

Good luck. Hope to see you soon! -Roman

I don't think you looked very hard. This is quite plainly stated in the developers policy. You don't have to be a lawyer to understand this: From https://developers.facebook.com/po…

One of the main points in this article is that any social graph found in a service such as Facebook, Twitter, or G+ can't possible model all of the nuance of real life relationship…

Almost all of the photos that people are filtering are uploaded straight off a phone. Generally the cameras on these devices suck. You get tons of pixel noise, weak colors, and rel…

Companies that actually build things have two enemies when it comes to patent warfare. The first is competing companies that also build stuff. The best defense against them is obta…

This is true. However, the services that startups use to host their servers (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, etc.) could adopt these practices in new datacenters because the specs …

The top tech companies (Google, Facebook, MS, etc.) see internships as the best way to recruit the top talent as they graduate from college. For this reason they will often pay eng…

I don't buy that argument. If that were true, then the lottery and every casino would be out of business right now too.

Not really. Any political consultant worth his salt could easily paint Rand Paul as a racist, given his comments on the Civil Rights Act. ( http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-n…

Instagram is a really great app for filtering your photos before you upload them to Facebook. "Vintage" filters work well for covering up many of the flaws in photos taken with cel…

Almost all of Facebook's internationalization is crowd-sourced. What you're seeing probably isn't a bug, the string just hasn't been translated by a user yet.