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Re:We only hire the trendiest on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:38PM (#11332331)
For what it's worth (I'm not speaking on Facebook's behalf, etc etc), I've done hundreds of interviews for Facebook and I don't think it's a red flag if you write ++ in Python.

Unless you're interviewing as a Python syntax expert or something like that.

Re:Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:22AM (#8887204)
> significant contributions he has had since his time in Facebook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Graph_Search was his biggest.

This. Why do you need the NF permission, status updates permission, photos permission, or all of those for friends?

FB platform policy says "Request only the data and publishing permissions your app needs."

Underware was really impressive. I'm amazed that no-one has built anything like this for Android. (I assume it's impossible on iOS.)
> "There's nobody doing really creative screen savers these days, that I know of." xscreensaver, which even runs on iOS and OS X, continues to release new modules:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

For nostalgia, DarkSide of the Mac had a pretty sweet freeware screensaver collection. (http://www.poubelle.com/DarkSide.html)

Erfert Fenton's book "Art of Darkness" came with a bunch of add-on screensavers for AD. I remember the chalkboard module being particularly impressive.