11–20 of 99 posts
From index.php, an if statement for one particular user // Merman's Admin profile always links to the Merman's home if (user_has_obj_attached($user)) { redirect('mhome.php', 'www'); }
Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?
> Worth preserving as part of Internet history. Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?
The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"
Amazing that they initially wrote this code and now to join FB you need to answer questions based on backtracking and dynamic programming. :) I wonder if they could do the questions themselves back then.
From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.
One way to look at this is to say "Hah, how shameful." The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"
Mind you, early Facebook wasn’t exactly a “tech business”—the code wasn’t making them any money, such that having a bug in the code would make them less money.
Really, Facebook only became a “tech business” once they got into 1. Messaging, and 2. Advertising. Then they had SLAs, and breaking those SLAs meant losing users/customers; and their ability to deliver on those SLAs became directly related to the quality of their code.
Amazing that they initially wrote this code and now to join FB you need to answer questions based on backtracking and dynamic programming. :) I wonder if they could do the questions themselves back then.
Code can't use algorithms because it's written in PHP? I'm not following.