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Having more megapixels allows you to crop more without losing detail and effectively zoom in on different areas on the photo in post processing. It frees you from needing to perfec…

If Erlang's syntax bothers you and like Clojure you should check out LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang). It's Erlang with a Lisp sytax.

I work on the Facebook platform team. Facebook Platform supports OAuth as a standard authentication protocol for 3rd party apps. It also provides APIs that developers can use to ex…

The theory is that by accepting someone's friend request you're not automatically granting them the ability to export your email address to any application that asks for it. If it …

It used to be the case that apps could only store your data for 24 hours, but we removed this restriction in the last f8 conference. You can definitely export all your photos into …

The Facebook API allows 3rd party applications to access most of the user's data, including the user's email, if the user grants the application the required permissions. More deta…

With the Facebook API, the user doesn't have to provide any third party his credentials to allow the third party to access his data. Facebook uses OAuth to securely pass an access …

ErlyWeb, an open source web framework: http://github.com/yariv/erlyweb/ . Twoorl, an open source Twitter clone: http://github.com/yariv/twoorl/ . Vimagi, a graffiti-like facebook a…

On the flip side, if the team from 37 Signals worked for a great technology company like Facebook, Google or Apple, they could have built products that tens or hundreds of millions…

We (FB) actually push new code every day.

"People tend to think of Common Lisp style hotpatching where you can dynamically build up your application from scratch without restarting the CL environment. Erlang doesn't really…

Erlang has reached prime time decades ago...

I think it's a lot easier to understand what some code does if you don't have to read a lot of language imposed cruft that surrounds the actual 'meat' of the algorithm. Erlang real…

The irony is that Erlang is so much easier than Java.

You can write readable code in any decent language, and you can just as easily write unreadable code in Python. The important variable is the programmer's skill, not some language-…

I launched Twoorl ( http://twoorl.com ), an Open Source microblogging platform, about a month ago.

Everything you said is true by my experience being involved in open source projects. Another reason to do open source: it gives you a better chance of being able to work on somethi…

Windows and Office are dominant but they are not monopolies. People have alternatives. I haven't used a Windows machine (at least at home) for years.

Twoorl started as a Twitter clone, but it doesn't mean it'll stay as such.

It's Twoorl ( http://twoorl.com ), of course :) Twoorl is open source and it's written in Erlang.

OO may not be inherently hard, but it is often used in overly complex ways, which makes it seem hard. The OO patterns movement probably had something to do with it. It's easy somet…

Twoorl is broken in IE and FF3 I believe. I hope such blog posts start appearing. It means Twoorl will have hit prime time :)

Mostly for convenience. ErlyDB makes working with databases very easy. I didn't see a compelling reason to use any alternatives. Although I use MySQL, I haven't used any relational…