indigoviolet

You can choose to not display your interests on your Profile. They are still "public", but hidden on your Profile.

Did you read the three sentences on the top of that dialog? The third one reads, "Remember, your Pages are public". There is a more detailed explanation linked off of the "Learn more" link.

[I work for Facebook, but my opinions are my own].

I'll jump in and head off random speculation- this was from a survey that we used Decipher Inc. for, a long time ago. Looking into whether this should be removed.

Because open-source can only do some things. It took an Ubuntu to make Linux somewhat usable, and even then it is miles behind an OS X. Some endeavors can only be done when there is lots of money at stake, that's a reality of our world today.

I saw a guy buy a meat cleaver the other day. Is it possible he is a psycho killer?

How would you support the claim that most people won't understand what is going on?

Edit: I guess the point I'm trying to make is that Facebook actually tests the UI and copy in experiments and in the lab before deploying it; so when you make a claim that it's not working, I'd like to see some supporting evidence.

It's opt-in.

I don't think it's fully rolled out yet.

I deleted my response to this by mistake.

Here's what I'd posted, in essence:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130

Users can edit which connections they want to add to their profile. They can also hide some connections on their profile, and remove others if they so choose.

Disclosure: I work for Facebook. My opinions are my own.

of course they can, that's how the moral compass works.

Why should it matter that they're physically indistinguishable? Would it be more excusable then?

Caste is just another uneducated, thoughtless distinction to discriminate against other people.

Caste is as correlated with cultural identity and upbringing in India as religion, nationality, and skin color are in other parts of the world.

To me, that's just splitting hairs. I don't consider religious discrimination to be any better than caste-based or skin-color-based discrimination.

My point is that this is one more manifestation of an inherent feature of human behavior, to consider similar people to be better than dissimilar people. Societies that become prosperous and educated can counteract this urge to some extent, but I haven't seen any society that really stamps it out.

I'm Indian, and I disagree with the caste system, but am also cynical enough to think this is no big deal. People will always discriminate against people for one reason or another.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=black+social+networ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=muslim+social+netwo...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arabic+social+netwo...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rich+people+social+...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=beautiful+people+so...

yeah, I built from cvs specifically for those commands.

my tmux is cvs. You can just comment out the options that fail, but I recommend getting a newer release. It builds really painlessly.

Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5).

Granted, my screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste and default stuff from lots of places, but that's actually the point: I could read through the tmux manpage and set up tmux the way I wanted, without cobbling a conf file together from the blog posts and mailing list emails of wiser people.

Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't.

EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never really understood screen. Maybe that's just me.

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/careers . You can also shoot me a resume.

I guess I should probably clarify what I meant by the "No." above:

Facebook has a large, well-tested codebase, with a huge amount of infrastructure built on and to support PHP. It would be ridiculous to expect Facebook to migrate all of this to a different language.

Re: the article itself, you'll have to wait until Tuesday.

No.

I've used Burkhard-Keller trees to do something like this:

http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK...

I don't know off the top of my head which one is more efficient.

I'm going to stick you in the Facebook recruiting system.

Edit: done. You should hear from someone.

Yes! Please.

If I know anything about Bollywood, I'm guessing this movie will have about as much to do with engineering as Legally Blonde had to do with law.

AFAIK, Facebook was one of the first users of "social" ads. The ad networks would pull in your pic next to all sorts of shady distasteful ads, and because Facebook couldn't control that, they turned it off. (I think so, don't know so-- I work for Facebook, but these are my opinions alone).

I use it (and Hive) extensively at Facebook.

It's a question of how difficult the workaround is. In this case, I think it maybe had to do with showing mutual friends in search results- not showing them made the results very difficult to pick through, and showing them was a privacy flaw. This isn't a very effective protection. I believe that the basic idea of protecting privacy as far as possible has not changed, but of course I'm going to say that :)