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"The secret to making things easy: avoid hard problems" http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html http://paulbuchhe

• euroclydon 15y ago
  He has a rather robust automatic weapon in that profile picture. It gives his grin a slight maniacal quality.
• mekoka 15y ago
  [...]while YouTube built a product that people actually used (using PHP and MySQL, I think, which is not at all technically impressive) Just some fact checking. Could someone confirm this? I've been told in the past that Youtube was originally built with Python.
  • evincarofautumn 15y ago
    A message from Guido van Rossum on the Python-Dev mailing list confirms this (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070323.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/07...). YouTube was launched in 2005 and the message is from 2006, so it’s a safe bet they’ve been Python-based right along. “Quotes about Python” (http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ http://www.python.org/about/quotes/) also has an entry for YouTube: > “Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers”—Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com
  • revorad 15y ago
    That's why he qualified it with "I think". Facebook was built with PHP. You get the point.
    • mekoka 15y ago
      I did get the point, but next thing you know, in some random discussion, here I am telling people that Youtube was actually developed with PHP/MySQL.
  • teejae 15y ago
    Yes, it was originally in PHP, but not for very long.