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Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by Fogest »

gengkev wrote: post #28

I 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…

You can just turn chat off: https://www.facebook.com/help/www/215888465102253

Any messages you get when your chat is off just go to your Facebook inbox so you can still get messages even with it off you just kinda lose that online live kinda element. I mean this works just like most chat applications work. They basically all say you're online or not too.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by aiiane »

gengkev wrote: post #28

I 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…

You don't even have to sign out of Hangouts - Hangouts has an option to not display "last seen" status which will make you always appear offline (though you can still send and receive messages).

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by huckyaus »

542458 wrote: post #3

Some 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.

If you found the article funny you may also enjoy one of the author's other projects, Swagify[0].

The source code[1] for said project is pretty great.

Kind regards,

[24x7BLAZEIT]XxXhUCkYau$XxX

[0] http://swagify.net/ [1] http://swagify.net/static/js/swagify.js

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by MichaelApproved »

givehimagun wrote: post #40
jonesb6 wrote: post #31

"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?

Not sure if you're seriously asking but OP was likely saying it's a great article because of the witty writing. The remark about FB sucking was related to the article's substance.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by baby »

swampthinker wrote: post #29
542458 wrote: post #3

Some 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.

What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.

I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure.

I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by jacalata »

As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't you hate me as much as I hate myself?" Maybe I know too many nerds with actual self esteem issues to find it funny.
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