Justin Taylor—
Employee: See, the thing is — and I don’t know how much you know about it — it’s all stored in a database on the backend. Literally everything. Your messages are stored in a database, whether deleted or not. So we can just query the database, and easily look at it without every logging into your account. That’s what most people don’t understand.
The Rumpus has scored an interview with an anonymous Facebook employee for Conversations About the Internet #5.
Working as a tech writer for a web-based software firm, this is an awesome interview. And, being involved in localization work here, reading this section blew me the fuck away:
“So publicly we translated the entire site into Farsi within 36 hours. It was our second right-to-left language, which was actually really difficult for us. Literally the entire site is flipped in a mirror. The fact that we did it in thirty-six hours — they hired twenty some-odd translators, and engineers worked around the clock to get it rolled out — was pretty fucking phenomenal.”
Working as a tech writer for a web-based software firm, this is an awesome interview. And, being involved in localization work here, reading this section blew me the fuck away:
“So publicly we translated the entire site into Farsi within 36 hours. It was our second right-to-left language, which was actually really difficult for us. Literally the entire site is flipped in a mirror. The fact that we did it in thirty-six hours — they hired twenty some-odd translators, and engineers worked around the clock to get it rolled out — was pretty fucking phenomenal.”
And the bit about the guy who stole people’s info to create 15’ish different accounts and essentially talk to himself for an ego-boost. Shit. That’s pathos.
And the bit about the guy who stole people’s info to create 15’ish different accounts and essentially talk to himself for an ego-boost. Shit. That’s pathos.
i guess the quoted text would be revelation back in 99?
do people still not have a basic understanding that everything, either tacitly or explicitly,is logged on the internet?
interesting interview…
i guess the quoted text would be revelation back in 99?
do people still not have a basic understanding that everything, either tacitly or explicitly,is logged on the internet?
interesting interview…