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‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

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The headline is actually So Say Some Computer Science Students , which I think is a non-trivial difference.

Blame HN's 80 character limit on titles.

Dropping "so" instead of "some" keeps the intent of the headline and still manages to stay under 80 characters.

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On this topic: could someone tell me whatever happened since the "security incident" that they were "very sorry" for? Did they commit to making even a single tangible change to their coding practices to prevent millions of people's accounts from being hacked again? Or is it business, condolences, and hoping-the-wind-blows-past-quietly as usual?

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On this topic: could someone tell me whatever happened since the "security incident" that they were "very sorry" for? Did they commit to making even a single tangible change to their coding practices to prevent millions of people's accounts from being hacked again? Or is it business, condolences, and hoping-the-wind-blows-past-quietly as usual?

Oh, you were supposed to have forgotten about that by now.

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> Ms. Brown said a lot of students criticize Facebook and talk about how they would not work there, but ultimately join. “Everyone cares about ethics in tech before they get a contract,” she said.

This describes my what I've observed perfectly. There are very few companies that make new grad offers comparable to Facebook's, and career advancement opportunities and working conditions at Facebook tend to be better than the other 'Big-n companies'. So it's hard for a new grad to say no to a Facebook offer, even if they're morally opposed to its products.

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On this topic: could someone tell me whatever happened since the "security incident" that they were "very sorry" for? Did they commit to making even a single tangible change to their coding practices to prevent millions of people's accounts from being hacked again? Or is it business, condolences, and hoping-the-wind-blows-past-quietly as usual?

Oh, you were supposed to have forgotten about that by now.

Yeah that's what I suspect too, but I most definitely have not...
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