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During Ben’s talk at the f8 keynote they came to a slide where they discussed Academics, and listed a bunch of companies who were either teaching courses on Facebook (*cough*98-096*cough*) or doing research.  I know that Carnegie Mellon is doing research on Facebook, and have yet to find anything on Central Michigan doing such research.  [...]

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I’m sitting here in a front-row seat for the f8 keynote.  I’ll be keeping this post updated as interesting things happen…so stay tuned!
1:29 pm: Waiting for the talk to start…great seat!  Music is good but a little loud
1:35 pm: Music out, Zuck in.  That is an amazingly hi-res projector!
1:36 pm: FB has been [...]

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Update: Schrep (I’m far back right, he’s in the middle…note the ripped shirt, sorry Schrep!) was kind enough to point out that, as of bug 423377 being resolved, Firefox 3 defaults to 6 simultaneous connections.  Modern browsers all use different numbers, the lowest being IE 7 with 2 (all older browsers also use 2).
One of [...]

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Well, I just spent the day at SuperHappyDevHouse 19. Some highlights of the evening:

Having an hour-long conversation about dropping out of college, and again finding that everyone in the near vicinity feels that I should
Meeting an entrepreneur in silicon valley younger than I am
Being (easily) convinced by Chris Smoak (who doesn’t seem to have [...]

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// NOTE(mcslee): ok, at this point we know we are going to display the full
// page, so it is time to do a PHATTY PHATTY MULTIGET of all the shit that
// we are going to need to make this page, or at least the most common things
...

Yea, so Simon from Facebook’s legal department sent a very nice Cease & Desist email politely demanding that I take down the code (note that I never implied anywhere on this site that it was Facebook’s code, nor have I broken any laws in obtaining said code), but I figured the above lines, used for the sake of comedy, are kosher. Funny how the last name in those parenthesis matches up with one of Facebook’s (and Google’s, and Motorola’s), though I of course imply no connection.

Sorry Simon for making you log on late on a Friday to send that email.

Completely Random Pretty Code From Nowhere in Particular (Removed due to Facebook’s very quickly sent Cease & Desist)

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