"If you I dunno, didn’t have a lot of friends in high school, you might recognise that as a UNIX time stamp - the time in seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. "
Great article. And a further reminder why Facebook kinda sucks.
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
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Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
#32Small tip: If you don't want to be tracked, you can also turn off the chat.
Turning off chat doesn't necessarily suggest that is true. While `sticky_pool=atn2c06_chat-proxy&state=active` suggests the case, it's something to explore and see if there is a larger issue at hand.
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#33Some 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 swear by Highcharts. It's big, and paid for commercial use, but you can chart pretty much anything with it, make it look exactly like you want, and it's relatively easy to get started and make nice interactive charts.
No affiliation, I just use it for work:
Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
#34Small tip: If you don't want to be tracked, you can also turn off the chat.
Also if you aren't super prudent in turning of chat all the time, it would be trivially to notice those kind of anomalies in the graph.
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#35I don't have a Facebook account, but is there really no way to not share your available status to your friends? In Gmail you can simply sign out of Hangouts. On a side note, > If you’re wondering why the response starts with “for (;;);”, it’s to, among other things, encourage developers to use a quality JSON decoder, instead of like, y’know, eval(). This is wrong, as I commented on the linked StackOverflow post, perh…
Dammit, I trusted that StackOverflow answer T_T
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#36I like to do this sort of web spelunking all the time.. But the writing and humor really make this more enjoyable than it should be! Of course Facebook leaks info to you about your friends - that is the sole attraction for people to use it! Seems like you could turn this thing into a browser extension as well if you felt daring.. Like some sort of FB snooper.
Yes the author seems to have a bit of fun with what he does.
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#37So to make it useful it just needs to find the pairs of people who ,,go to sleep'' at the same time
Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
#38Some 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 swear by Highcharts. It's big, and paid for commercial use, but you can chart pretty much anything with it, make it look exactly like you want, and it's relatively easy to get started and make nice interactive charts. No affiliation, I just use it for work: http://www.highcharts.com/
HighCharts is awesome. I'm a big fan as well.
I've used it for school projects and work before, and was amazed by the documentation and API capabilities. Everything is configurable and easy to figure out.
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#39Some 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.
Everything about the writing was perfect. Even the tumblr name, "literally words", is great.
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#40"If you I dunno, didn’t have a lot of friends in high school, you might recognise that as a UNIX time stamp - the time in seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. " Great article. And a further reminder why Facebook kinda sucks.
Why does unix timestamp imply that Facebook sucks?