i know i'm a jerk for thinking this but "what do you expect from PHP"
Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
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It’s not that cut and dry. For a lot of reasons, I don’t do side projects. But I do choose jobs that are using technologies that will keep me marketable. So if I want to learn a new to me technology, I’ll often work some crazy hours to both learn the technology and get the work done. Yes my company benefits from it, but so do I. For instance, given a choice of trying to come up with an idea to learn about a feature o…
You’re not working.
Let’s say my team had a feature to get out and the React expert said he could do it in 30 hours and he could have it done by Monday morning without working extra during the week or on the weekend.
On the other hand, say it would take me 50 hours and I knew I would have to work on the weekend because I’m not as experienced, but I thought I could still have it done by Monday.
I might be willing to volunteer, knowing it would take me longer but it would also be done on time. That extra 20 hours, I’m still working, committing code but zeal do trying to figure out the framework. I wouldn’t have a problem doing that because I am learning a new skill.
But, I wouldn’t work weekends to finish a project because I was given an unrealistic deadline.
The first scenario, the extra 20 hours benefits me and the company. The second, it just benefits the company.
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#533i know i'm a jerk for thinking this but "what do you expect from PHP"
I'm no fan of how bad PHP code is often written but between the choice of laying blame on PHP or Facebook's "Move fast and break shit" philosophy, I'm choosing the latter.
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Pre-disclosing news to publications is a standard affair in business and politics. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
I'm also surprised that many supposedly educated people on HackerNews don't seem to know these things. Noam Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent decades ago. Read, you fools!
It's actually the 30th anniversary. Also, Herman wrote half the book!
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#535Maybe 'view as' should just return a static page.
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Just as Microsoft developed Patch Tuesday, Facebook should have Forced Logoff Friday
Every day on Facebook should be forced logoff day. Or, at least, incognito mode day.
'We only use incognito mode for security. Since it's annoying to login constantly, everyone has dedicated machines that are powered 24/7 so you never have to shut down those incognito tabs.'
=)
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I don't think you can so glibly dismiss enthusiasm as Stockholm syndrome. Passionate people push the world forward, and mocking passion is a recipe for mediocrity and stagnation.
Facebook is a cancer. It’s not “pushing the world forward.” It’s a phenomenal waste of energy. Take those excited geniuses and have them work on preventing climate change from ruining all life on earth, instead of inventing new ways to profit off of people’s data.
There’s already a community of excited geniuses that work on preventing climate change - they’re called climate scientists, and their solution is a steep carbon tax. It could pay for a public interest ad campaign for recycling and energy efficient practices, distributed and targeted by the excited geniuses at Facebook. That way we can brainwash the Paleolithic know-nothing American public into behaving in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet.
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Between accusing others of being apologists for slavery and moral cretins, you've dived into full-out flamewar of the kind that we ban people for on HN. It's unacceptable, regardless of how morally correct you are or feel you are. Flamewars burn what they burn regardless of how righteous the flames, so please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dang, you're right and I'm sorry. I won't do it again and I'm gonna give myself a 24 cool-down period before I post on HN again (on any subject.) I let my passions get the better of me and I should have known better. Between you and me, I pulled a muscle in my neck/shoulder this morning and I've been in a devil of a mood all day. I'm not trying to make excuses, I shouldn't have taken out my bad mood here. Today's B.S…
It happens. I hope you feel better soon.
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> So is working at Google, Amazon and probably 90% of the big corps of the world in many sectors While Google and Amazon both have their ethical problems and serious anti-trust issues, Facebook is in a league of its own. The complete, cavalier disregard for the consequences of its own actions as long as they get theirs is utterly unconscionable. Unlike Google or Amazon, they add nothing of real value to society to ba…
What companies offer 500k+ and is ethical?
Ethical is open for debate..
I work at a big tech thing. But these also do a lot of good.
Facebook keeps me more connected to old friends and family than ever before. It facilities communication and organization of events that would far more time consuming to do without Facebook. I hang out with loved ones more, because pinging them is on Facebook is easy.
Sure, Facebook could be better. IMO ads in messenger is a cheap move, that won't play out well. But Facebook could also be a lot worse than it is.
You're not going to rebuild the world from scratch. Nothing will ever be perfect -- but don't let that get in the way of better. Why not make it better from the inside? How is that not ethical?
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That doesn't just seem like a few unlucky coincidences. That seems like a fundamentally unsound design. Why should it even be theoretically possible for a request under the authority of one user to create a token with the authority of another user?
Notably, they previously had issues were "View as" allowed you to view notifications and messages of the user you were viewing as. If they'd done a proper post mortem and corrected the fundamental issue, and made sure it wouldn't have re-occured, this should not have happened.
Instead they moved fast and broke things.