Is this generated real time? I had some very recent posts appear and it's impressive if they pre-generate 1.25billion .mp4 files in such a short time!
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#22Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6 years than the present.
I definitely found it the reverse. I've been using FB for 8 years and I found it very poignant too but most of the images seemed to be from the last year or two. I don't know if this correlates with the amount I posted those years or is just the effect of randomly picking a fairly small pool of images and events. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
My video ended with the "Sky.NET" meme image that we were joking about when Microsoft bought Skype. Talk about mood-destroying.
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#23Is this generated real time? I had some very recent posts appear and it's impressive if they pre-generate 1.25billion .mp4 files in such a short time!
I was wondering the same. Because there is no "building" or "loading". It just plays.
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#24Could someone please describe this for those of us that don't have a Facebook account?
Unless you are like me and self-delete posts after a day or two. Then you get a picture of your cover photo and profile pic plus the message
"Thank you, [name]
10 years ago people started using Facebook to connect with each other in a new way. Thanks for being a part of it.
Mark and the Facebook team"
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#25I find it a bit funny that you can't share your video on Facebook.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's a personalized video for your profile.
I'm logged in but still get the error, although my account has very little activity (i only use it for dev purposes).
See my previous comment (made a minute or two ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7177239
I got the error, too, until I didn't and this (see link) popped up.
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#27Nicely done - kind of made me realise how unimportant a lot of the stuff I post on Facebook is though! The photos were nice to see but all but one of the status updates were dumb things that only had relevance the day they were posted and had no lasting nostalgic value. I'm guessing this was quite a technical challenge to produce a 1 minute HD video for every user on Facebook and have them all available today.
If you have important, meaningful things to say, a Facebook status update is probably the wrong platform. :)
I don't see why that has to be the case. My posts it showed were about a new job I got in town, when my girlfriend got her first full-time teaching job, the completion of a really difficult junior year. I was impressed with how many interesting things it pulled out while avoiding drunk posts and party pictures.
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#28Could someone please describe this for those of us that don't have a Facebook account?
Here's an example of the type of video that get's made for you using your Facebook posts and images:
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#29Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
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#30Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6 years than the present.
I found it funny, because of the mismatch between the "this is supposed to feel poignant" style of background music and the completely-lacking-in-poignancy material I tend to post on Facebook.
I was laughing almost all throughout.