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Here's what I absolutely love about this... He's still a hacker. CEO of one of the biggest internet companies of our time and he still hacks. I explain to peo

Here's what I absolutely love about this... He's still a hacker. CEO of one of the biggest internet companies of our time and he still hacks. I explain to people all the time, true hackers are like true writers. I've heard writers talk about the same thing. It's like an urge of creativity inside you, you have to release it into something. You can also see in the comments section, he's replying to people and providing feedback. I really dig this.

timdorr 10y ago
Funny thing: Based on the screenshot in the post header, he's using async/await and therefore the Hack language (instead of vanilla PHP): https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction
- abluecloud 10y ago
  and yet still doesn't use array dereferencing
- archon810 10y ago
  I'm not sure why that's funny or remarkable - Facebook invented and is a heavy user of Hack, it's only natural that he's familiar with it and chose it.
  - timdorr 10y ago
    It's funny as an alliteration: He is still a hacker hacking with Hack.
serf 10y ago
Gates' did something similar (as far as high-tech'ing your abode) in the 90s that I thought was also very hacker-ish.[0] “First thing, as you come in, you’ll be presented with an electronic pin to clip to your clothes. This pin will connect you to the electronic services of the house,” Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. “The electronic pin you wear will tell the house who and where you are, and the house will use this information to try to meet and even anticipate your needs — all as unobtrusively as possible.” At the time, Gates speculated cameras might one day supplant the pins, as they’d be able to do facial recognition. He explained that the house would learn your preferences and adjust to your needs. Your affinity to dimmer lights, R&B, and Monet paintings would mean the lamps, music system, and screens would all adjust when you enter the room. [0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-inside-bill-gates-mansion/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-ins...
- soft_dev_person 10y ago
  They used the art-part of that in the movie Anti-Trust. Fun =)

timdorr 10y ago

Funny thing: Based on the screenshot in the post header, he's using async/await and therefore the Hack language (instead of vanilla PHP): https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction

abluecloud 10y ago
and yet still doesn't use array dereferencing
archon810 10y ago
I'm not sure why that's funny or remarkable - Facebook invented and is a heavy user of Hack, it's only natural that he's familiar with it and chose it.
- timdorr 10y ago
  It's funny as an alliteration: He is still a hacker hacking with Hack.

serf 10y ago

Gates' did something similar (as far as high-tech'ing your abode) in the 90s that I thought was also very hacker-ish.[0] “First thing, as you come in, you’ll be presented with an electronic pin to clip to your clothes. This pin will connect you to the electronic services of the house,” Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. “The electronic pin you wear will tell the house who and where you are, and the house will use this information to try to meet and even anticipate your needs — all as unobtrusively as possible.” At the time, Gates speculated cameras might one day supplant the pins, as they’d be able to do facial recognition. He explained that the house would learn your preferences and adjust to your needs. Your affinity to dimmer lights, R&B, and Monet paintings would mean the lamps, music system, and screens would all adjust when you enter the room. [0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-inside-bill-gates-mansion/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-ins...

soft_dev_person 10y ago
They used the art-part of that in the movie Anti-Trust. Fun =)