I work on the third floor. The third floor is where engineering lives, which includes people like developers and QA and such. Each floor has four washrooms, two in the middle and two somewhere else. Presumably, two are for men and two are for women. This is mostly true.

On the third floor, however, there are three guys’ washrooms. Apparently, it’s because of the gender ratios up here or something. Unfortunately, unlike what we thought during the tour, this was not considered during construction, so the third guys’ washroom is actually one that used to be for women.

This just in: I have heard from various sources that Facebook is selling your data through a service called the Facebook Development Platform.

My response: No, no they are frigging not. They are not selling anyone’s personal data. If they are, they certainly don’t need the Development Platform.

“But amg programs that aren’t faecbook are accessing my datas!” you say. Well, it’s too bad that all of those people making angry Facebook groups, thereby sticking it to the man, aren’t as good at software development as they are at parsing through the Terms of Service to take quotes out of context.

The Facebook Development Platform is an Application Programming Interface. Wikipedia says:

An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer system or program library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by a computer program.

The software that provides the functionality described by an API is said to be an implementation of the API. The API itself is abstract, in that it specifies an interface and does not get involved with implementation details.

The API allows a program to make requests without having to know the details of the implementation. What does this mean? Well it means that using Facebook’s API, programs don’t need to have all of your private informations that you hold so dearly, since it can just make requests to the server and process everything without having the entire Facebook database on its machine.

I mean, hell, you need to log in for these programs to work. If Facebook is giving your information away, you have more to worry about than your silly little datas; they’re giving away passwords too! Oh noes! Security breach!

People really should actually read the API docs before accusing Facebook of criminal activity, because you all end up looking like retards to people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about.

In conclusion, Facebook users make me angry.

I’ve noticed that on Facebook, being Chinese is equivalent to having a degree in Political Science specialising in the political climate of East Asia and that anyone of Chinese descent is an authority in China-Taiwan relations.

I mean, living in a western democracy doesn’t really matter, the pulse of your homeland is in your blood, and you’re proud of it. You know that the Chinese people are entitled to any of the land that they’ve occupied for any amount of time over the past 6000 years.

And life in China beats life in North America any day. China’s becoming more and more prosperous everyday, and will eventually beat the US at its own game. There really isn’t any reason at all why our parents left the country and made us live here for all of our lives.

Taiwan really needs to suck it up and give up its autonomy to rejoin the great People’s Republic. Being a part of the great nation should outrank any other silly concern, like democracy or stirring up the wrath of Beijing these past fifty years.

Dammit, I’m wasting my time here in Software Engineering. What I need to do is write a book on Chinese politics, make millions, and unite China and Taiwan because I am highly knowledgeable in this area. THE ? KINGDOM SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!!11