Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

Post by MadWombat » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:14 PM UTC

fipple wrote: post #53

ergothus wrote: post #29

I interviewed at FB recently (didn't pass the in-person) and the one question I asked each interviewer was "tell me about the parts of FB I don't see" - because they have an odd hiring process where you don't figure out what team you'd be working with until after you are hired...and I had no interest in pushing Ads, but understood that wouldn't be a great pitch from my side. Turns out there is a LOT about ads at FB.…

If you don’t want to participate in the central economic function of a company you would not have been a good hire regardless of technical skill. You don’t want employees who are willing to work at a company they think is a blight on humanity.

Post by Noumenon72 » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #231

duxup wrote: post #83

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It sounds like a fun challenge. It's just ads. If we're talking about some ad for a coffee maker, whatever. Now their whole selling data to unscrupulous folks, taking money from parents via their kids, selling fake news that makes people hate other people (now that gets into the ad space...) .... That's where I'd want to nope out.

It can be demoralizing to work on anything that’s against the end user’s satisfaction, regardless of whether it’s actually evil. I remember working as a junior developer on a desktop app that had so many fatal bugs that it crashed very often. Instead of being given the time needed to fix the crashes, I was told to build this watchdog ‘launcher’ EXE that would simply re-run the application every time it crashed, resto…

Post by TimothyBJacobs » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

peterangular wrote: post #295

TimothyBJacobs wrote: post #294

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It seems like a time span of minutes wouldn't be fast enough for on-the-fly blocking of sponsored posts?

Oh yea - I guess I had a specific use case in mind when I said that =) What I meant is that I can hammer out some Node/Python that will grab an image w/text and put it through OCR for character extraction. "Programming" it would take me a handful of minutes.

Post by dest » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 10:29 PM UTC

m3kw9 wrote: post #309

This is where applying AI to this can defeat it quite easily.

Post by packetslave » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 12:33 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #320

nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #165

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All engineering hires go through bootcamp, period. The only engineering hires that don't go through team selection are domain experts hired for a specific team/role ahead of time.

> The only engineering hires that don't go through team selection are domain experts hired for a specific team/role ahead of time. Is this a significant fraction of hires? Because I find it really odd to waste the time of a say an embedded software engineer trying to teach them React when they're pretty set on working on something else anyways…