Questions tagged [facebook]
Facebook is a popular social networking website.
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Why does Meta (Facebook) use mono-repo in their source control? [closed]
Meta maintains all their code in a single repository and initially used Git. Due to performance issues attributed to the repo's size, they consulted Git's team, who suggested switching to a multi-repo ...
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How can a website get the phone number of the device used to call it?
I'm not registered with Facebook and I've never logged in to Facebook inside the browser I use, Today I enter the site facebook.com and see my actual phone number on the sign in page with this message:...
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What is the right approach to save user agent info during login to web / app?
As you know Facebook saves login sessions and we can see them in settings where we've logged in.
Now, they show IP address, Phone name (if logged in with phone) and App name in the phone and Browser ...
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What does GRAPH stand for in the term Azure AD Graph API or Facebook Open Graph API
I'm doing some research on authentication methods and I've noticed that not only does Azure call their cloud Active Directory interface API the "Graph API" but also Facebook use the same term with ...
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Is it a bad idea to use Facebook friendships as sole source of filtering content?
I'm writing a social app in Django where all users sign up through Facebook using Python Social Auth. All content that a user sees will be content created by her Facebook friends. Initially, I planned ...
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Best way to design a database interface [duplicate]
This is my situation
I have a website, mobile client and desktop client.
They can all pretty much do the same operations (website might be able to do more now but in the future they might have the ...
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How to scrub Twitter and Facebook posts for many users
I'm making an Rails app that in theory should scrub new posts from the users facebook and twitter accounts and put them in a timeline for an analyst to analyze and determine if they are good or bad ...
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What is the use of the prefix "for(;;);" in an Ajax response
After using the chrome debugger to inspect the ajax requests of Facebook (for curiosity), I noticed that the response is in JSON, however it is always prefixed with
for(;;);
In example, if the JSON ...
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Can someone explain the behind-the-scenes process of connecting an app account to a Facebook account?
I am developing an app that will use the Twitter and Facebook login APIs exclusively.
Suppose a new user downloads the apps and is presented with the option to log in through Facebook or Twitter. The ...
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How can I find all connections in a mesh network/graph?
Suppose I have a mesh of relationships, such as
Friends who trust some friends and not others
A IPv6 router that needs to locate peers across the Internet
A PGP Web Of Trust that needs two people to ...
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Why does Facebook convert PHP code to C++? [closed]
I read that Facebook started out in PHP, and then to gain speed, they now compile PHP as C++ code. If that's the case why don't they:
Just program in c++? Surely there must be SOME errors/bugs when ...
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How ad retargeting works? [closed]
Recently, I read that Facebook ads are moving towards retargeting and got interested deeper into subject. Essentially, retargeting is technique advertisers use that tracks purchase intent by putting ...
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Facebook Payments & Credits vs. Real-World & Charities [closed]
I am having a difficult time understanding Facebook's internal "e-commerce microcosm" and what it allows Facebook App developers to do (and what it restricts them from doing).
Two use cases:
I'm an e-...
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What could be the best way to generalize data from Facebook and Twitter?
I am not sure if this is the best subsite to ask this question, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't fit on the normal or facebook SO page...
I've been asked to make a general API for connecting to several ...
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How to improve my algorithm for analyzing twitters messages from users? [closed]
Hello I think I have a nice idea to implement for human kind goodness. I call it FixTheUnFixed.
The idea goes like this, imagine you are driving or traveling all over the world and when you see some ...
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Login with Twitter or Facebook - How to link accounts
I've been developing a site and I've been trying to come up with a method to make sure all Social Network accounts of a certain user are linked together. I've had one snag from the start, and maybe ...
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What's the best approach to Facebook integration?
I have a new site/app going live next week (or somewhere close). I know there will be a relatively small (15,000?) very dedicated group of people on Facebook who will be very likely to be interested ...
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What are the pros (and cons) of using “Sign in with Twitter/Facebook” for a new website? [closed]
Myself and a friend are looking to launch a little forum site. I’m considering using the “Sign in with Facebook/Twitter” APIs, possibly exclusively (a la e.g. Lanyrd), for user login. I haven’t used ...
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