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So I was initially bearish on it, but I tried out Diaspora today. It's actually quite nice! I have started the laborous process of getting my family on it. I'm pitching it to them as Facebook like it was in the mid/late-2000's, but has no ads, isn't run for profit, no creepy big brother vibes, and there are only people on it (no stupid pages, brands, etc).
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I haven't been on Facebook in over a decade; I didn't see that it had any positive effect on my life (quite the contrary), and I'm definitely not impressed by their lack of social conscience. Despite the excessive pay and "pedigree" that working for them would offer, I'd never do it. I hope that a growing number of people from my and future generations will think the same.
Within my circles there has been a marked decrease in the perceived prestige of an engineering job at Facebook over the past few years. I'm sure it still requires a huge amount of talent and isn't lacking in meaty, difficult problems, but the core product just seems so unimportant.
From my experience, and based on people I know that work at Facebook, e.g., getting your foot in the door is just a matter of studying medium/hard-level problems on Leetcode (speaking verbatim here). I'm not sure you need a strong foundation in systems programming or design, or even a strong track record of building great software to get hired at these kinds of companies. The metric is mostly Leetcode; it's for efficiency I guess, because of the sheer number of applicants.
I've also worked closely with a few people from such companies. I'd say only one was a great engineer. And he definitely didn't have a high opinion of his former co-workers.
The one company whose engineers I'd probably give the benefit of the doubt would be Netflix, because they're so intentional about "performance".
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I believe the article was trying to show how these rules were being applied unevenly, rather than trying to legitimize incitement.
Maybe, except this is what Glen Greenwald writes instead: > Last March, Facebook briefly shut down the Facebook page of the political party, Fatah, followed by millions, “because of an old photo posted of former leader Yasser Arafat holding a rifle.” which is on the soft side of what Israel contests is incitement (see my post above, or Google for more examples, there are many).
In the US you can go to a rifle range and buy targets with the president’s face on it. Then you upload that to YouTube and get hundreds of likes.
FB is not offended by a dead Arab with a gun. It’s scared of other things, but you’ll have to re-read the article to find out
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It’s standard to use the capital city to refer to the actions of a state. Tel Aviv is the internationally accepted capital of Israel, not Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv is not the capital city of Israel to anyone but to the Arab media. In fact this isn’t even a reference to the capital but how the Arab media refers to Israel in order not to recognize it. I can guarantee to you that the original quote was “Israel or The Israeli government has submitted...” AJ is just doing their creative editing. I wonder if they’ll publish the posts again last time it had nothing to do with…
Censorship has become far too easy, with a few key players in a position to muzzle vast numbers of others. The Internet wasn't supposed to work this way.
Censorship can only be committed by the government. The fact that facebook is complying with requests from governments is both the right and responsibility of facebook.
Censorship has become far too easy, with a few key players in a position to muzzle vast numbers of others. The Internet wasn't supposed to work this way.
Censorship can only be committed by the government. The fact that facebook is complying with requests from governments is both the right and responsibility of facebook.
False. Heck, the modern understanding of censorship is strongly influenced by the (officially, still continuing, but greatly reduced in significance even within the Catholic community) official censorship practice of the Catholic Church.
Now, there are certainly consideration that apply tomstaye censorship that may not apply equally to non-state censorship, but state censorship isn't the only kind of censorship.
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> I live in Israel and not once I've been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals. Well, if you bury your head in the sand on a hot summer afternoon and proceed to claim its night, it's hard to take further claims seriously. I will agree that there is extremists on both ends that just furthers their own political/economic interests and muddies the water. ...but my analysis of the conflict over ther…
I encourage you to come over and see how things actually go by. People are getting killed by terrorists who happen to be 16 years old kid brain-washed by the same news you and I are having an argument over. My point was that we've never demonstrated the same approach to the so-called beef. We do not go out to the streets, gun blazing, and start killing. I'm sure some of you will hop and go say "Right, you prefer to d…
I think there must be a premise hidden somewhere behind that expletive.
What is the nature of the sentence between the quotation marks? Is that a hypothetical counterargument of someone who is misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) what Israeli soldiers are doing? Or is it supposed to be an accurate account of what Israeli soldiers are doing, and you mean to say that people wrongly think you agree with what the soldiers are doing?
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Within my circles there has been a marked decrease in the perceived prestige of an engineering job at Facebook over the past few years. I'm sure it still requires a huge amount of talent and isn't lacking in meaty, difficult problems, but the core product just seems so unimportant.
Have you found any meaningful correlation between "talent" (engineering or otherwise) and tenure at a well-known tech company? From my experience, and based on people I know that work at Facebook, e.g., getting your foot in the door is just a matter of studying medium/hard-level problems on Leetcode (speaking verbatim here). I'm not sure you need a strong foundation in systems programming or design, or even a strong…
If someone is a senior engineer at one of those companies, I assume they have a reasonable amount of talent. It's not easy to fake it or avoid expectations as a senior engineer.
This is astounding to me given the likelihood of Facebook's unspoken allegiances and their history with respect to censorship.