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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:48:27 -0500
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On 10/31/2024 4:44 AM, D wrote:
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> 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.
>>
>> 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?
> 
>>>
>>> I could name dozens of other elite programmers.  Thompson, Ritchie,
>>> Kernighan, Carmack, etc.  So could Scott.
>>
>> 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