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Me and PG's Code

38 points by marrone 19y ago

I accepted a job with Yahoo for which I will be starting very soon. The position is with the Small Business, which encompasses various Yahoo products. One of those products happens to be Yahoo Store, formerly known as Viaweb. So I am looking forward to possibly having some contact with some of PG's work!

gustaf 19y ago
Congrats to the job!
nickb 19y ago
I think they rewrote Yahoo Store in C++ or something like that. Sorry. They might have the code in a safe somewhere or something.... ask them and let us know.
pg 19y ago
Let me know if you have any questions. The original Lisp version of Store is still there, btw. I know because I use it for paulgraham.com. The new rewritten version was sufficiently different that you had to choose to "upgrade," and I never have. I keep worrying that one day they'll shut it down because I'm the last user, and I'll have to write another web-based site builder. At least then I could support css.
- rms 19y ago
  What would you do differently from Weebly?
  - pg 19y ago
    Be able to hack the source. I miss that.
- Kaizyn 19y ago
  If they've completely rewritten the source code, do you think they would be willing to let you have the rights back to the original version again if/when they decide to shut it down?
- marrone 19y ago
  > "Let me know if you have any questions." I will hold you to that. I have a question for you right now actually. Are there any tech skills you wish you had learned, but so far have not?
chmac 19y ago
Congrats on the job, what does PG's work mean? Is PG a person?
- brlewis 19y ago
  PG stands for Paul Graham, a guy who posts to this site a lot. You'll get to know him if you hang around here more.
- ratsbane 19y ago
  Yes. PG is famous for writing pithy and insightful comic essays about the indolent British upper classes(1). He speaks with a slight lisp(2), having once bitten his tongue while eating breakfast(3). His writings are also noted for abundant citation of references(4). (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse (2) http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html (3) http://paulgrahamatebreakfast.infogami.com/ (4) See (4).
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Me and PG's Code

38 points by marrone 19y ago

gustaf 19y ago

Congrats to the job!

nickb 19y ago

I think they rewrote Yahoo Store in C++ or something like that. Sorry. They might have the code in a safe somewhere or something.... ask them and let us know.

pg 19y ago

Let me know if you have any questions. The original Lisp version of Store is still there, btw. I know because I use it for paulgraham.com. The new rewritten version was sufficiently different that you had to choose to "upgrade," and I never have. I keep worrying that one day they'll shut it down because I'm the last user, and I'll have to write another web-based site builder. At least then I could support css.

rms 19y ago
What would you do differently from Weebly?
- pg 19y ago
  Be able to hack the source. I miss that.
Kaizyn 19y ago
If they've completely rewritten the source code, do you think they would be willing to let you have the rights back to the original version again if/when they decide to shut it down?
marrone 19y ago
> "Let me know if you have any questions." I will hold you to that. I have a question for you right now actually. Are there any tech skills you wish you had learned, but so far have not?

chmac 19y ago

Congrats on the job, what does PG's work mean? Is PG a person?

brlewis 19y ago
PG stands for Paul Graham, a guy who posts to this site a lot. You'll get to know him if you hang around here more.
ratsbane 19y ago
Yes. PG is famous for writing pithy and insightful comic essays about the indolent British upper classes(1). He speaks with a slight lisp(2), having once bitten his tongue while eating breakfast(3). His writings are also noted for abundant citation of references(4). (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse (2) http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html (3) http://paulgrahamatebreakfast.infogami.com/ (4) See (4).
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