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In the distant future, when they discover the endless jars of eggs and sperm in Mark Zuckerberg's basement, somewhere, Chris Holt will be saying "I told you so.
by wallabie 10y ago
In the distant future, when they discover the endless jars of eggs and sperm in Mark Zuckerberg's basement, somewhere, Chris Holt will be saying "I told you so."
- kowdermeister 10y agoI mean, no one in their right mind REALLY believed that Facebook needs all that server farms, right? :)
- 72deluxe 10y agoThey did when they ran PHP. Now they compile their PHP to C++ so it'll run faster and with less CPU and cooling requirements. Also, writing PHP is easier than C++ so it's beneficial in that they get a wider pool of developers to use, and they can pay less. Genius really. So, now their server farms must be a cover-up, or they're using an old version of MySQL that kept a lot of its clustering data in RAM and are afraid it'll bomb out :-)
- seattle_spring 10y agoSo they can pay less? Do you have any idea how much FB pays?
- 72deluxe 10y agoNo but I know that PHP developers get paid less than C++, typically. That's particularly the case here in the UK. I would wager than employing an army of C++ devs would be costlier than employing an army of PHP devs.