Sorry, Facebook. Even you can’t fix this.
June 18th, 2010I click on “Relationships” and this is what I get. Oops indeed…
Facebook Distract
November 1st, 2009Sad but true… 
Facebook (Lonely) Friend Suggestions
November 1st, 2009I find this sad and hilarious. (highlighted)
New and improved! The previous post on one line!
October 20th, 2009This following bash code outputs the puzzlebot facebook email from my previous post with no extra output. This is one of those “just for fun things” that non-CS people don’t understand.
echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\nint main(int argc, char ** args){printf(\"%d@facebook.com\\\n\", 0xFACEB00C>>2); return 0;}" > fbmail.c; g++ fbmail.c -o fbmail; ./fbmail; rm fbmail.c fbmail
http://facebook.com/puzzles
October 20th, 2009I had a preliminary interview with a woman at Facebook yesterday. We scheduled another interview for Thursday, which will have more technical kinds of questions. I asked her what i should be doing in the interum,and she suggested that I check out http://facebook.com/puzzles. The page had brushed past my radar in the past, but I didn’t give it a serious look until now. The page has a bunch of programming puzzles for anyone to do. Even the submission email address is a puzzle.
Submissions should be sent via email to the address: {0xFACEB00C>>2 in decimal}@facebook.com
Since one can easily find the email with a quick Google search, I thought I’d show how to find it. The puzzle page is Unix-centric, so for this task I logged into an Ubuntu virtual machine that lives on my home network.
In ViM, here’s the simple program:
