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TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by ChuckMcM »

laurieg wrote: post #68
ChuckMcM wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The really weird thing is how actual technology in movies from the 80's and 90's looks so much worse to people in 2017 than technology in moves from the 50's and 60's looked to people in the late 90's.

Orville Wright (of the Wright brothers) went from developing early airplanes to seeing the development of international travel and the jet engine. He lived until 1948 and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation[1] In computer science we are similarly privileged. We've gone from basic ideas of transistors and turing machines to having a global network of interconnected supercomputers in our pockets. [1] https:…

I don't disagree, I'm just saying that there is a certain design ugliness that seems to be unique to turn of the century technology.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by santaclaus »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #69
King-Aaron wrote: post #25

> Perhaps “acne-ridden dork magazine” would have worked better. I kid — sort of. Cornell girls are hideous. Yeah wow.

sounds like typical college rivalry.

Is there Stanford vs. Cornell shade? Ivy Leaguers get touchy when Stanford people call themselves an Ivy (hell they get touchy that Penn is an Ivy) but is there actual direct beef?

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by NuDinNou »

"Corny, Mr. Zuckerberg? No, that seems downright suspicious. Why shell out cash for a Web s ite that serves other people? I smell a rat."

Taking into account that Zuckerberg is jewish, comparing him to a rat, isn't this message anti-semite?

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by Semaphor »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #64
andrewksl wrote: post #62

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> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008 It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was a form with the prompt "John Doe is:" and you had to squeeze whatever thoughts you needed your friends to know into that format.

2005? Nope and no and no way in hell. First of all, mini-feed launched in Sep, 2006, according to a TechCrunch post from that time. That was the real time Facebook started to be anything near what it is today, and certainly well before status updates. I first noticed people using status updates in March 2008, how do I know month and year, you ask? because there was serious shit going on on my life at the time. And I…

My first status post on facebook was 2006-09-05

edit: 2006, not 2016.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by dibstern »

NuDinNou wrote: post #84

"Corny, Mr. Zuckerberg? No, that seems downright suspicious. Why shell out cash for a Web s ite that serves other people? I smell a rat." Taking into account that Zuckerberg is jewish, comparing him to a rat, isn't this message anti-semite?

Nope, as a Jewish guy I've not heard that anti-semetic trope before, seems like that must be a pretty uncommon trope to have heard. Do people really call Jewish people rats, where you're from?

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by blauditore »

gkya wrote: post #71
ehnto wrote: post #52

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That is crazy. Why make it an entirely new syntax with an entirely new lexicon? Bgc () instead of background-colour? I feel like new people keep entering the web field and forgetting all the lessons learned from the (very very recent) past. The inline approach might work for a small site. But in that case, why use a pre-processor at all and why would you need config objects? CSS doesn't need to be rocket science. If…

I wonder how much of those entering The Web Field have any formal education on CS and CS history, and to what extent most of them know the tools at their hand (HTML, JS, CSS, Standards, HTTP(S), browsers, other programming tools, etc). It seems to me that most of the professionals in the sector are actually paid amateurs with shallow knowledge of their own fields. This leads to reinvention of tools for that are at mo…

I have a similar impression; and based on the people I've met, it's somewhat accurate. People with higher education in CS I know tend to go more towards full stack or back end work, while web front end devs often are career changers.

The entry barrier for web technologies is just rather low. This is probably the main reason for Node's huge growth in the past years: It's just the path of least resistance to get into back end development.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by pyvpx »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #43
notahacker wrote: post #37

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I dunno, I thought part of Facebook's instant success was because, with the exception of wilfully-obtuse student columnists, most students instantly "got" it because they'd had some sort of internet profile and compulsively-updated statuses since their parents had finally succumbed to the avalanche of AOL CDs in 1997. Even the university, moving at such glacial pace it still ran a nineties Windows NT, was trying to g…

>> And for all the joys of smartphone browsing on the go and novelty of proximity based search. Still remember ATT Mobile in early 2001 had a "find me" service you could use to find your friends. It was like a messenger app you logged into and then it would show you where your friends were located on a google maps interface. Then you could text or chat with him. They used the example of a guy who wins some concert ti…

Google Maps? in 2001??

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by akerro »

terminado wrote: post #7

Jesus christ. It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004. I feel like that era transpired 40 years ago. The period of time before smartphones feels like it happened in the 1970's to me. The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief.

13 years ago they had funnier conspiracy theories. Now it's all related to NSA and confirmed :/

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by akerro »

teddyh wrote: post #28

> Many people have told me that they are surprised that a computer science major from Harvard designed this people-meeting service. Can Facebook still be considered a “people-meeting service”?

Now it's mostly used to offend people, break relation-ships, blame and shout at others.
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