{"id":2526,"date":"2015-02-19T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-02-19\/2526"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:32:25","slug":"facebook-engineering-opens-a-satellite-office-in-kyoto-for-a-few-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-02-19\/2526","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Engineering Opens a Satellite Office in Kyoto (For a Few Hours)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i068234\" href='\/i\/JF4_068234.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_068234_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Nadya and Ryan At Uroko (\u9c57), Kyoto Japan -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i068234\"\ntitle=\"Nadya and Ryan At Uroko (\u9c57), Kyoto Japan -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_068234.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_068234.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Nadya and Ryan<\/span>\n<br\/>At Uroko (\u9c57), Kyoto Japan\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_068234.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2015-02-17'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Nadya and Ryan At Uroko (\u9c57), Kyoto Japan -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Facebook engineer <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/r'>Ryan Mack<\/a> and\nhis wife <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nadia'>Nadia<\/a> and their\nblissfully-sleeping two-year-old took time from their 10-year-anniversary\nJapan trip to join me for dinner at Uroko (\u9c57) in downtown Kyoto the\nother night.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ryan has sometimes provided help or insight on navigating the\ncomplexities of Facebook's third-party app API, which <span class='nobr'>I must<\/span> use for <a\nhref='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/facebook'>my\nExport-to-Facebook plugin for Adobe Lightroom<\/a>, so <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> happy to\nfinally meet him in person.  Meeting Nadia was <span class='nobr'>a wonderful<\/span> bonus, though\n<span class='nobr'>I didn't<\/span> really get to meet his son, who slept the whole time we were together.\n(Jetlag sometimes giveth, <span class='nobr'>I guess.<\/span>)<\/p>\n\n<p>It's just as well I didn't get to interact with their boy, because <span\nclass='nobr'>I came<\/span> down with <span class='nobr'>a cold<\/span> the\nnext day, and <span class='nobr'>I think<\/span> you're contagious before\nyou're symptomatic. <span class='nobr'>I would<\/span> hate to have given\nany of them <span class='nobr'>a cold.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n<p>I imagine that Facebook is a huge company with thousands of employees\nspread out around the globe, but <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> happy to find out that he actually\nknew my other friends working there (Paul, Nam, and Arturo). <span class='nobr'>I guess<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a big<\/span>\nworld is smaller in certain circles.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i068236\" href='\/i\/JF4_068236.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_068236_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"377\"\nalt=\"Aftermath with Damien having joined us part way through -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i068236\"\ntitle=\"Aftermath with Damien having joined us part way through -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 5600 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_068236.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_068236.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Aftermath<\/span>\n<br\/>with <a href='\/blog\/2012-11-30\/2157'>Damien<\/a> having joined us part way through\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_068236.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2015-02-17'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Aftermath with Damien having joined us part way through -- Uroko (\u9c57) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2015 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Uroko has an amazing (though difficult for me to read) menu, so we had <span class='nobr'>a\nwide<\/span> variety of wonderful things. They were <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> iffy about the <a\nhref='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dioscorea_japonica'>somewhat slimy\n<i>yamaimo<\/i> potato<\/a>, but seemed to enjoy everything else.<\/p>\n\n<p>I would have liked to host them around Kyoto for <span class='nobr'>a day,<\/span> but not with <span class='nobr'>a\ncold,<\/span> so perhaps when they visit on their 20-year anniversary...<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook engineer Ryan Mack and his wife Nadia and their blissfully-sleeping two-year-old took time from their 10-year-anniversary Japan trip to join me for dinner at Uroko (\u9c57) in downtown Kyoto the other night.<\/p> <p>Ryan has sometimes provided help or insight on navigating the complexities of Facebook's third-party app API, which I must use for my Export-to-Facebook plugin for Adobe Lightroom, so I was happy to finally meet him in person. Meeting Nadia was a wonderful bonus, though I didn't really get to meet his son, who slept the whole time we were together. (Jetlag sometimes giveth, I guess.)<\/p> <p>It's just [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}