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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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The only thing that stands as a non-contribution is your need to publicly proclaim a lack of a sense of humor.

I think HN still tends to reward quick posts over more thoughtful ones. As humor is quicker to post, it will come to dominate (i.e. HN will become Reddit) without this important check/balance in the culture.

As far as value added to the conversation, the joke added more value than the sarcastic passive agressive response did. HN should be more concerned with monday morning quarterbacks than people who add a new facet to the discussion.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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How do they know that I actually fit in that department and not in Marketing? Like... I never put who my employee was or my profession.. EDIT: Oh, I did put my profession. Stupid me.

I thought it was implying that if you are the type of person to find that link you could be in the engineering department (ie it isn't dynamic)

we read hacker news :)

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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According to Facebook, I might be soon an employee. {"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineering"}

They changed it since this hit the top of Hacker News, I'm REALLY impressed with the speed of rolling something like that out on the fly.

That's good; I was sad they were preemptively rejecting me when I saw "false".

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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I think HN still tends to reward quick posts over more thoughtful ones. As humor is quicker to post, it will come to dominate (i.e. HN will become Reddit) without this important check/balance in the culture.

As far as value added to the conversation, the joke added more value than the sarcastic passive agressive response did. HN should be more concerned with monday morning quarterbacks than people who add a new facet to the discussion.

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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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I'm 601804, also from Penn. Does 6xxxxx denote school?

Some prefixes from my friends lists: 100k = Columbia 200k = Stanford 300k = Yale 500k = Dartmouth 600k = Penn 1000k = Brown

Cornell = 400k, MIT = 700k, NYU = 800k, BU = 900k, Princeton = 1100k, UC Berkley = 1200k, Tulane = 1300k, Georgetown = 1400k, UVA = 1500k, and then I got bored.

You can keep plugging away IDs into http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=[id]

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

#98
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I think this is_fb_employee variable is to check if they should be running the internal testing version of Facebook. Facebook has a subdomain which, in their offices everyone is redirected to. It's something like 'preview.facebook.com'. It houses the latest testing build of Facebook. This way all the employees are testing Facebook just by being on it, and they have other people testing their new builds for short peri…

I don't understand. If they're proxying requests, what would this variable ever be used for? This is at an endpoint for a client or their javascript to consume (or just as a recruiting-marketing tool). That would be redundant if they're proxying requests and insanely silly if it's the only way (instead of proxying) that they flex new features on... as they'd be visible in the javascript and it would be trivial to spoof the response to be "yes".

I have no doubt that their internal employees or a subset of them are using a different build of Facebook, and maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this is related.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Thats funny actually =)

How do they know that I actually fit in that department and not in Marketing? Like... I never put who my employee was or my profession.. EDIT: Oh, I did put my profession. Stupid me.

If you don't have a facebook account, it assumes you're smart enough to go to engineering.
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