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A guy I used to date works for a big university here in England and they do social graph analysis to understand immigration and how second wave immigrants do better owing to an entrenched social network in the country they’ve moved to etc.
Facebook were super cagey about data access with them and him (he lead the team), and he couldn’t work out why.
I suppose we now know it’s because they knew about CA and were worried it was gonna happen again 😂
So there is this project of my firm that is comepletly dependant on Facebook api, I've actually told it many times to managers at first but they've just waved their hands over it.
Now what didn't happen. Facebook data leak and the api being taking down ..juust a week before the project going public.
Our app is still not reviewed and not able to access the so vital api and there are actually many similar projects getting published (even Facebook Local greatly rivals to our app, actually killing it because they have native data... And we don't have any. )
I told them again. "Nah we will have this and this feature that makes it soo exceptionall."
And you are sitting here thinking if the salary you have asked for is still good enough to stay or to run away.
(Well, I am still getting some coding experience from this so that's why I stay, and oh yeah I have the backend repo only for myslef because except the frontend dev no managers knows what git is. This is how freedom feels. )
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