Objective : Hide all the quiz notifications on FB homepage
Steps :
1. Right click on the link below and bookmark it.
Hide Quizzes
2. When you are on your facebook home, click on this bookmark.
That's it !!!
It is a simple script written in response to Facebook's failure to provide a simple way of hiding all unnecessary information (a.k.a clutter). There's an option of hiding all updates from a friend or of hiding a particular kind of quiz, which essentially is useless as many new "zoozoo" or "know your true personality" quizzes pop up everyday.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A feature or a bug
.. or a side effect of implementation ? That is what a weird behavior made me think while I was breezing through some twitter pages today. Let me describe the behavior
1. Open a profile say A while you are not logged in.
2. Make a few middle clicks (or right click -> open in a new tab .. or something to that effect on macs :P ) and open some more profiles say B and C in that order.
3. On the page with profile A, click login and sign in... tadaaan... You see a page with profile C.
Most likely, it is simple case where they store the last clicked page in session and do a redirect on login (or something like that), but is this actually the intended behavior in all cases. I know, it is trivial stuff but just looked weird to me and made me wonder can we really make a redirect behave normally in all cases, with multiple tabs open ?
1. Open a profile say A while you are not logged in.
2. Make a few middle clicks (or right click -> open in a new tab .. or something to that effect on macs :P ) and open some more profiles say B and C in that order.
3. On the page with profile A, click login and sign in... tadaaan... You see a page with profile C.
Most likely, it is simple case where they store the last clicked page in session and do a redirect on login (or something like that), but is this actually the intended behavior in all cases. I know, it is trivial stuff but just looked weird to me and made me wonder can we really make a redirect behave normally in all cases, with multiple tabs open ?
Friday, October 10, 2008
A vs B
Inspiration for this post came from here. (Update : as the link is no longer what it was at the time of writing - it was a poll between A and B) As of the time of writing, the standoff reads 220 vs 932. Given the abstruse nature of opinion sought, I believe certain peculiar observations can be made from the poll. What makes one choose A over B or otherwise .
A here stands for the starting point, the famous, the ubiquitous, the rock star, the one with individual identity and everything "representative". B, on the other hand, represents the core, the anonymous, the team player. Its individual identity may not be the stuff of legends, but its significance can't be ignored. It may always be on the sidelines, but it's the one which powers brains and brawn.
Considering the above description accurate, the leaders would naturally feel a camaraderie with A while the crowd will feel (maybe on an unconscious level) a sympathy and oneness with B. In sheer numbers, crowd beats leaders and thus the observed result.
Logical Deduction: B's lead will grow with time.
A here stands for the starting point, the famous, the ubiquitous, the rock star, the one with individual identity and everything "representative". B, on the other hand, represents the core, the anonymous, the team player. Its individual identity may not be the stuff of legends, but its significance can't be ignored. It may always be on the sidelines, but it's the one which powers brains and brawn.
Considering the above description accurate, the leaders would naturally feel a camaraderie with A while the crowd will feel (maybe on an unconscious level) a sympathy and oneness with B. In sheer numbers, crowd beats leaders and thus the observed result.
Logical Deduction: B's lead will grow with time.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Strive to be the worst member of your team !!
Its funny that I start this blog with such a post. In fact, its not actually the start. My blog started in a different way at a different place, but due to some unreasonable demands by Wordpress (or maybe undue generosity by Blogspot ) I landed here.
Sometimes there are certain words which look simple enough, but for strange reasons they just stick in your mind. Despite their being so intuitively obvious, they look so brilliant perhaps because of the sheer simplicity of expression.The title of this post is one of those lines. Recently I read a post with this subject (can't remember where or I would have given the link). Strive to be the worst member of your team : It can easily be interpreted in multiple ways, with the most obvious interpretation not being what I am going to talk about (obviously :P ). It is a plain guideline which asks you to constantly strive to be a part of a team where everyone is better than you, so that slope of your learning curve is always increasing, or at least the curve itself is going up. As you keep adding steps to your intellectual ladder, keep looking for ways to stay the shortest. The operative part here is that you keep growing at your fastest possible rate and still try to be the worst. So, just improving yourself is not enough. Try to find some better people to surround you. I think, that's enough repetition to drive the point home.
Apart from the subject, I would like to say a little bit about the title itself. Recently I read 'Rich Dad Poor Dad'.For those who don't know, the book is about importance of financial literacy and financial independence, but I think its more of just a way of consolidating the author's own financial strength. Although the book itself did not live up to the expectations, which were unusually high due to some my friends' comments, it has some pretty smart anecdotes. Choosing a controversial title like "If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don't Go to School" against a plain "Economics of Education" for just its shock value looked like a very smart move. Do you think this post would have been better if it had a title "Look for smart people to work with" ?
Sometimes there are certain words which look simple enough, but for strange reasons they just stick in your mind. Despite their being so intuitively obvious, they look so brilliant perhaps because of the sheer simplicity of expression.The title of this post is one of those lines. Recently I read a post with this subject (can't remember where or I would have given the link). Strive to be the worst member of your team : It can easily be interpreted in multiple ways, with the most obvious interpretation not being what I am going to talk about (obviously :P ). It is a plain guideline which asks you to constantly strive to be a part of a team where everyone is better than you, so that slope of your learning curve is always increasing, or at least the curve itself is going up. As you keep adding steps to your intellectual ladder, keep looking for ways to stay the shortest. The operative part here is that you keep growing at your fastest possible rate and still try to be the worst. So, just improving yourself is not enough. Try to find some better people to surround you. I think, that's enough repetition to drive the point home.
Apart from the subject, I would like to say a little bit about the title itself. Recently I read 'Rich Dad Poor Dad'.For those who don't know, the book is about importance of financial literacy and financial independence, but I think its more of just a way of consolidating the author's own financial strength. Although the book itself did not live up to the expectations, which were unusually high due to some my friends' comments, it has some pretty smart anecdotes. Choosing a controversial title like "If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don't Go to School" against a plain "Economics of Education" for just its shock value looked like a very smart move. Do you think this post would have been better if it had a title "Look for smart people to work with" ?
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