Are you a Facebook employee? • Hacker News Board

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by mrgn » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #28

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #7

wow, I am the 49,200,124th user? we should see who can get the lowest score...

I'm < 50,000 ... I have old screen shots of thefacebook.com too somewhere. In fact, I have an outstanding friend request from the early days that I've never clicked on, just for fun. I think this was either 2004 or 2003.

I'm 2305451 and I registered in November 2004 (I remember this because join date used to be prominently listed on all profiles)

homepage screenshot: http://bit.ly/q5P4kQ

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by gammarator » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:48 PM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #7

wow, I am the 49,200,124th user? we should see who can get the lowest score...

11##

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by Shenglong » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:48 PM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #40

Shenglong wrote: post #38

Can someone please edit a question mark into this title? It's frustrating me.

Are you a facebook employee question mark "Hey Mark, am I a facebook employee?" "Not any more!"

I think this is the most amusing HN thread I've ever seen. :)

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by hammock » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:49 PM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #7

wow, I am the 49,200,124th user? we should see who can get the lowest score...

1,509,###. Joined in 2004 when it was still thefacebook.com. Winning so far (but not for long I imagine)

How many people here realize they are outing themselves by posting the whole number?

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

flyt wrote: post #15

h00k wrote: post #3

So, what's the point?

is_fb_employee() is an internal FB function that can be used to gate features to employees only on facebook.com.

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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by richchan » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

I hope there isn't a flash app on Facebook that is using just that to decide whether to show an employee/admin interface.. Will be quite easy to spoof the result of that page if it is client-side.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by gojomo » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

Now, if you were to browse Facebook through a proxy that always tampered with this result in transit to say you were an employee... might some stray client-side code do anything interesting because it trusted that response?

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

pettazz wrote: post #4

I'm going to start using this as an endpoint for stats checks on my own stuff to see if Facebook employees are visiting my site.

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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by shadered » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #7

wow, I am the 49,200,124th user? we should see who can get the lowest score...

Mine is less than 50...

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by base2john » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

{"user":842915,"is_fb_employee":"Dish Washer"} ? WTF?