Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 10/31/2024 4:44 AM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, Scott Lurndal wrote:
 

Mark Zuckerberg was the only programmer for Facebook for several years.
He got Facebook up and going by himself before hiring any employees.  I
would call Zuckerberg an elite programmer.

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I would call him a founder and businesman.  Did he write the
web server that facebook (and myspace at the time) was using?
No, they leveraged opensource software.  And he hired a bunch
of programmers once things ramped up.  I met with both facebook
and myspace engineering teams in the mid 2000's specifically
to discuss high-end servers.

 Wasn't Z mainly a php-programmer?
 

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I could name dozens of other elite programmers.  Thompson, Ritchie,
Kernighan, Carmack, etc.  So could Scott.

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Sure.  I don't put Bill Gates in that camp.

Probably.  I think that Facebook is still a php shop but they have a php compiler now to generate direct executables.  It supposedly cut their cpu usage by 100X.
Lynn