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Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service on Sunday March 29, 2015 @08:29PM (#9287077)
Structure wise the Digital Service is made up of a headquarters team within the White House, 18F which is an internal software development organization within the General Services Administration, and then embedded teams growing to be within each cabinet level agency. This creates a mixture of distributed execution plus centralized resources to help each team as needed.
Hey, since I can't find your name or contact info on your account I figured I'd comment saying that I run Bootcamp and it sounds like we should chat ([email protected]) :)
Re:UberTAXI is arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @11:02PM (#4667298)
I feel like this is what the rating system helps deal with. You should be finding yourself with drastically more taxi experiences where 20% is a reasonable tip.
Re:OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell on Thursday July 26, 2012 @12:25PM (#4296830)
The earlier drafts were much more like that. They were largely a collaboration between a few web companies who had deployed OAuth 1.0 with Dick Hardt who had written WRAP at Microsoft. One of the major design goals was producing a protocol simple enough that client developers would not have to use libraries.

I was pretty happy with this result since we could write a simple page like https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/server-s... which conformed to the spec (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-12#section-4....) and was an easy to implement explanation of authenticating a user.

But the OAuth 2.0 spec we were working off of is now eighteen months old and as Eran said the vast majority of those contributors have drifted away from the effort over this past year :-\

It's a bar on Virgin Atlantic :)
Re:Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @10:07PM (#3422568)
Really like the transparency and applying the same rules, but at the same time when I search for "Google Chrome" the single ad in a yellow box above all of the results is for http://www.google.com/chrome. I guess I wonder if this page rank demotion will really make a difference since Google still controls that ad spot.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012) on Sunday January 01, 2012 @06:42PM (#3414195)
Menlo Park - Facebook

I manage one of our tools engineering teams focused on making it easy for employees to quickly find the right information and keeping it up to date. But there are a number of different tools engineering teams focused on things from tools engineers use daily to how we can better support users.

Email is on my profile.

https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee...

Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:30AM (#3307109)
You're able to apply via email if you don't wish to be logged in to the site. Each job has a unique email address such as [email protected] which is for tools engineering in New York.
Re:Why Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing' violates HTTP on Sunday September 25, 2011 @12:18PM (#3036038)
Sorry, but this really feels like hyperbole to me. For two reasons:

1) Before any action is shared back from the site to Facebook, the user has agreed to authorize that site (application) and add it to their timeline. Part of that dialog shows what's going to happen (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/authentication/).

2) There are plenty of other examples around the web where submitting a HTTP GET request results in an action. For example, clicking an up arrow on Hacker News submits a GET request which increases the karma score on another author. What becomes more important is how you protect against XSRF and crawlers not accidentally changing state within your app.

Re:OpenID Connect spec is now there on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:16AM (#2742774)
This is my old first draft from last year. Others have been working on making it real over the past few months but the site hasn't been updated yet.
Re:How Facebook pushes updates to the site on Saturday May 28, 2011 @03:00PM (#2594984)
Re:How Facebook pushes updates to the site on Saturday May 28, 2011 @03:00PM (#2594981)
Cherry picking based on which engineers are around is much more about our daily releases. Everything checked into trunk on Sunday will go out on Tuesday. But if I've requested a diff be merged for the Wednesday release, it won't happen unless I've told request_bot that I'm around to support my changes. This also means that if there are merge conflicts, the engineers who wrote the patches will be there to help resolve them.
Re:How Facebook pushes updates to the site on Saturday May 28, 2011 @01:07PM (#2594765)
Then corrected himself to subversion and git.
Re:Twitter’s Shit Sandwich on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @06:28PM (#2562094)
This would become quite a bit simpler if they also moved to OAuth 2.0 (bearer tokens over SSL) instead of sticking with 1.1 (HMAC signatures).
Any info on where to buy one of the hardware kits?
Re:Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers on Friday April 22, 2011 @08:12PM (#2475867)
I don't see the giant gate that they had in the video though.
Re:Is FoundersCard Worth It? on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @12:37PM (#2463138)
Think it depends on the cost. Got mine for $99 which it is certainly worth! The 15% Uber discount makes up for that by itself. Would be harder to justify at $500.
Re:Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter on Saturday April 16, 2011 @04:41PM (#2454793)
Because that's how Tom dresses. He's not a "corporate guy" but manages the team who runs our data centers and was directly involved in building this one.

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