Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
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Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
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#2Does this work for anyone, even if you're not their friend?
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#3Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.
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#4Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.
I, too, am laughing way too much whilst at work over the writing of this.
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#5Does this work for anyone, even if you're not their friend?
I would presumably work for anyone you are chatting with; that’s mostly your friends, but there are edge cases like people who asked to become your friends and haven’t accepted yet, friends of friends in a group chat, with whom you might be able to chat, etc. I haven’t tried though.
If you are inclined to, I would strongly recommend you create test accounts there to do so: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
A. you get way funnier screen grabs, and honestly simpler controls; B. you will get love from the security engineers, which I’ve tried, and is an awesome idea.
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#6Does this work for anyone, even if you're not their friend?
Only works in idiots who have Facebook installed on their phones
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#7Does this work for anyone, even if you're not their friend?
As it says in the article, this returns a list of the statuses of your friends, he's not querying people individually. He is, however, storing the records individually, but that's a function of his program, not how the API behaves.
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#8This is awesome! Thank you for sharing the code for this. Overall I would say that this could be very entertaining to watch over multiple sites. Potentially gathering a good profile of your friends over time!
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#9I did the same thing with the XMPP interface before they scrapped it and it was obviously much easier...also I used the built in graphing that's in Racket to visualize it. Also I made a thing to do desktop notifications whenever someone came online, which is actually kinda useful.
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#10seriously though how are you not already using D3