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I've been thinking of ways to phrase this without sounding rude, but it's difficult to avoid sounding that way in the context of how you asked your question :) So please don't think I'm intentionally being rude...

Your confusion stems from the fact that you are looking at the situation though a developers eyes. The acquisition of Instagram has nothing at all to do with the code. Nothing. It's about Instagram's users, their brand, and their founders / team. Instagram has ~27 million users [1], a good brand and smart founders. Their engineers probably know a thing or two about scale too, which I'm sure facebook would find useful.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Instagram/How-many-users-does-Instagram...

PS. IMO, most startup logic makes a lot more sense when you stop looking through developer-centric goggles. You're not making code you want to turn into a company, you're starting a company that you want to produce code...
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I did some basic FB Advertizing and also reached out to bloggers - some of whom have written about us. I also spammed some travel sites a bit :D
So we have around 6k users and 500 fb likes so far.
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This is just one more reason why it's important not to skimp on developer testing, including unit testing (of course they need to include these scenarios in their test cases). Learn how to prevent these cases at http://j.mp/IdJI0j
I did some basic FB Advertizing and also reached out to bloggers - some of whom have written about us. I also spammed some travel sites a bit :D and posted on CL and various free online classifieds.
"The Chinese care more about learning and being productive than they do about how many sick days and annual leave days they will get each year."

Thank god there's some white dude here to share the truth about what those Orientals want. Weekends and health insurance? pffft. The only thing Chinese people value is hard work!

(And I'm someone who's not terribly shocked or upset at Foxconn. Terrible article, nonetheless.)
Do your engineers use the PHP interpreter in development (for rapid prototyping) and HipHop-compiled PHP in production (for speed)?
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Question: How do you bootstrap an MMO to reach a critical mass of players so that the environment sustains itself?

A friend and I built this MMO game called Pixza (http://pixza.com/lite) and we're finding it incredibly tough to bootstrap the ecosystem. The problem is that since it is an MMO game, it's not enjoyable with a few players. So after every wave of publicity, traffic comes in sporadically which does us no good. If all of the traffic came within a frame of 20 minutes of starting a game, I'm sure the game will explode. I've seen it happen during play testing with friends and family.
a start-up with simple technology and a couple years of history got bought up for $ 1 billion? mmm....this reminds me of the bubble in 2000
What I was referring to with the greater fool theory is that the investors who put in ~$50 million, for a valuation of ~$500 million thought they'd find a greater fool to sell the company to, to make money off of (since I don't think Instagram could actually earn that money from its userbase), and that greater fool turned out to be Facebook.

In turn, Facebook, implicitly assumes that the greater fool from whom they will make money from this deal is the public who will buy shares when Facebook goes IPO. Because with $1 billion in profits for 2011, if the market values them at $100 billion, that will be a P/E ratio of 100. Even if they double their profit in 2012, their P/E ratio will still be 50, which is astronomical.

When people put huge money into things that have low value from a business fundamentals point of view, just because they think they can sell later on to someone else to make a huge profit, I think that's the very definition of a bubble.
For what it's worth, long-term effects of OTC non-cancer drugs aren't investigated for shit. I'm permanently achlorhydric from permanently solving my GERD with daily omeprazole. As recommended by actual doctors. What the hell is the effect of taking omeprazole for a decade? Who the hell knows?

Omeprazole has been about for nearly quarter of a century; and is fairly well understood - hell I can walk down to my local drug store and pick up a load from the shelves.

What you are describing, IMO, is either one of two things:

- a systemic failure in healthcare provision (not drug development)

- or a valid trade off between cure and side-effect

If what "advancing knowledge" means to you is "we think we know what's going on and we think we can do it better next time,"

The problem here is that you're going to kill a larger number of people in-trial due to mistakes or missteps. We know this because that is what early medicine did. Whether this is more than those who would die without aggressive research is something of a moot argument. Arguing the numbers is largely pointless because it's impossible to predict what will happen (that, after all, is the point).

Now; I see your argument that this is a valid tradeoff. Indeed, I think we should take more risks than we do. But not quite to the extent you are arguing.
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You would do us all (author included) a favor by pointing them out. Why would you take the time to complain about the articles veracity without providing a single correction?
Or, we've learned that even the biggest web companies can now be built with fairly vanilla technology and that obsessing over clever bespoke scaling schemes is largely a waste of time.
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The only downside is that for IE build support you have to buy a commercial license which isn't cheap ($2500).
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What you call greater fool is just who has more value for Instagram. Instragram is worth more to Facebook than it is to Sequoia because Sequoia don't run a social network with hundreds of millions of users and aren't trying to stop Google from killing their business.

If I buy a bathtub from a bathtub warehouse at a 50% markup am I the 'greater fool' or do I just like hot baths?

> Because with $1 billion in profits for 2011, if the market values them at $100 billion, that will be a P/E ratio of 100. Even if they double their profit in 2012, their P/E ratio will still be 50, which is astronomical.

And then if it doubles again it becomes 25, and then it becomes 12, and then it becomes 6. only 4 years away to Facebook being a blue chip stock - so all that the 100 PE ratio is telling you is that they do believe that revenue and income will grow pretty quickly over the next few years.

The last bubble got messy because public markets were being used as what private equity does today. The public was shouldering the risk profile of a big VC firm that filled in all the shitty deals.
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Millions of people are dying from cancer, and will die at the pace of current research. The argument is that if you turn up the pace, you will kill more people but in the longer term you may save a lot more.

You can't predict these numbers though; which is my point. Neither is a very useful argument.

There are a lot of improvements that could take place; the moving of more drug research from the US to other countries, for example (that's probably a controversial opinion in itself).
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The web is littered with photo sharing apps, yet most of them aren't even a dot compared to Flickr, a web service which is supposed to be dying because of Facebook.

Yes you can create your own, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is having users. Google Plus is a bad example because of that.

The acquisition also makes no sense to me btw.
I other words, (again, if your calculations are correct) if this were a typical HN discussion about A/B testing a conversion goal, we'd all be ridiculing anybody who suggested a result almost 3 standard deviations from the mean _wasn't_ "statistically significant", yet climate change (sceptics|denialists) will no doubt _still_ argue the relevance of this…
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Like many, I've grown up with PHP, and grown to dislike it big time over the years. However, it has its virtues. Now, my rule is: use PHP iff it feels like the entire script could comfortably fit inside one small PHP file. The moment my very first design feels like it's better to, say, separate the view from the controller, use a real language. Sometimes this estimation is wrong, and I end up rolling my yet-another-PHP-microframework over again, but usually this is a pretty decent rule of thumb. I don't want to have to go through setting up a VPS and a rails environment for something that'd take me the same time to coe and deploy in PHP.

Really, PHP is excellent for what it was originally designed for: little server-side scripts that do relatively simple things. I know that its authors would currently like it to be used for more than that, but, well, don't.

As long as you're not making a massive application, PHP's massively filled global scope, decent batteries-included approach, documentation-with-examples, and its support on virtually every web host (and then some) make it an excellent choice.

Therefore, I disagree with the author's notion that it's bad for everything. It's excellent for little scripts, which is was mr Lerdorf originally intended it to be for anyway.
Well, if I look at my plugins folder I have around 200 jar files.

Many of those do provide more than one plugin, which puts it way above 200 plugins.

The approach one process per plugin won't scale in such cases.

The lack of IPC performance for heavy communication, like it happens with plugins, is the main reason why microkernel based OS are yet to become mainstream.
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Most applications developed by professionals in Big Freaking Enterprise Languages working in regulated industries will also have game over security vulnerabilities. Most applications developed by the cool kids in Ruby/Python working for startups will have game over security vulnerabilities.

The current state of information security: basically, we're screwed.
Ya...the features of Mosh sound quite interesting..there's been a lot of times when I forgot to quit out of my shell & had everything messed up...so had to relogin, etc. so this will certainly help. But one thing that I'm still not that sure about is the security...is mosh secure like ssh? It obviously acts as a client on top of that protocol if I'm not wrong then it should be pretty secure right?
Note that this is a response to:

EDIT: refer https://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/18957165652253491... - Jeff's 4 year old response is still valid.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

Jeff gets it right - the language is poorly designed, but it hasn't stopped PHP powering many of the biggest most important sites on the internet today. Banging on about the language's flaws [again] is not very interesting. What would be fascinating would be an attempt to understand why PHP remains so dominant despite the well-known flaws.

Seriously - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php throws up so many pearls of WTF that you wonder how PHP could possibly be so important. And yet!

Time to stop the PHP bashing. It's like comp.lang.js complaining about the flaws of jQuery (and, indeed, any JS library) and expounding the many and various reasons you should never use a third party library. The reality is: when the keyboard meets the road, stuff has to get done, and these are the tools that seem to work.
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Give us the first three, big, ideally testable ones.
Having used php and run across many if not all of the issues the article lists personally I can pretty confidently say it's as close 1o 100% correct as anything I've read on the subject.
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Flickr (which is arguably a dead man walking)

Flickr is still the best and largest community of amateur photographers on the web. It's not shiny anymore and Yahoo is letting it stagnate, but the community is still there nonetheless.

What I don't get is that people already upload tons of shitty photos on Facebook. What Facebook misses here is quality of the uploaded content. The signal to noise ratio is awful. That's exactly what Flickr has and Instagram doesn't.

That's why I don't get this acquisition. What does Instagram have that Facebook doesn't?

My first thought was the native mobile app, which is indeed cool. But I never used it, simply because my Android phone came with built-in integration with Facebook and Google's Picassa, making sharing easy. And I also need a centralized repository of photos from multiple sources, not just from my phone, which means I need lots of storage and good management tools. And if I want to retouch my photos, I like to do that from the comfort of a laptop or a tablet, because the display of a phone is too tiny, even for playing around with stupid effects.
Agreed. While PHP apps are definitely more likely than others to be vulnerable to systemic SQL injection, XSS, and other vuln classes of that sort, all applications are equally vulnerable to things like command injection, authorization bugs, etc. No one gets that stuff right, and if you can execute code on the system, well, it doesn't really matter if you can't find SQLi.
On nukes: I believe that they would only go as far as build them (if even that) and start threatening other countries.

The reason they will probably never use them is that if they do, they're pretty much screwed - the US and NATO will finally have a clear reason to start a war with them and they'll go the way of Iraq for sure. They don't have the military power to oppose any serious attack from NATO, at least from what I can see.

Russia and China stepping in would be the only possible game changers, but I don't see a reason for them to side with Iran as it is now, either...

P.S. Is it me or downvoting seems flawed here - one downvote and the comment is out of sight?
I used to concede that PHP is appropriate for little scripts, but I changed my mind over time, because so few of those scripts stay "little". Where is the line drawn? Do we find we need a new feature one day, decide that's enough to tip the scale, and set out to rewrite the thing—wasting all the time purportedly saved by writing it in PHP in the first place? We're lazy, so probably not.

I tried writing a little one-off Python thing in Flask last year and was actually surprised by how little effort it took. I spent more time learning Flask (and Flask is really, really simple) than I did actually deploying the thing to a VPS with spare cycles. It could stand to be slightly more turnkey, but running a tiny app server isn't nearly the nightmare it's made out to be.
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why don't more people do casual programming of any kind?

I'm not sure I understood what the author meant by casual programming, but the first thing I thought of as I read your comment was HyperCard.
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Sure, if you've got crazy simple requirements it's generally a cinch. Once you do anything remotely non-trivial (want to read from a file? use some third party library, handle errors in a consistent manner) then you start hitting into issues with file permissions, PHP version differences, modules not compiled in by default, etc etc.

Although PHP suffers from this, I'm not sure it is alone. I suffer a lot of pain setting up Ruby environments (I don't think I've ever managed it the same way twice) and getting everything to play nice. Even Python, a language I am about as familiar with as PHP, has it's annoyances on this front.

I suspect the difference is familiarity; I can deploy a working PHP environment in my sleep, because I've done it so many times.

The other day I had to set up Java/Tomcat - literally the worst experience of my life...

Also, PHP is not helpful in local development. I think there's a built-in runserver in the newest versions, but for all of history, to develop PHP you had to install (and set up) apache and all your required modules locally.

You're thinking like a seasoned pro :) For a newbie there is xampp - a familiar looking windows installer configures the Apache/PHP/MySQL (and others) stack, then it disappears into the backround and, largely, can be forgotten.

This is huge for a new developer.

Think about it this way; if you had a class called "Learn to Write Websites", for absolute beginners, I argue PHP is a good initial choice. Because you don't have to worry about the environment, how to server it, command line, package management - which, say, Ruby would require. You just chuck in a brief overview of how servers work in general, and then get them working on some PHP scripts, with instant results.

I love this!

I like Ruby, of course - it's powerful, has modern standards, and Rails is brilliant. But for a beginner, and even moderate, developer it is a bit of a pain to work with.

With python and Django, I use virtualenv+pip to get a consistent environment, manage.py runserver to test locally. I can pretty much start developing everywhere (my desktop, my VPS, my laptop, that same laptop after I reformat it and install some new distro to test) with 3 commands.

This sort of thing (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv) is non-trivial for a beginner.

I'm not trying to defend PHP too much here; I like it, but it is a horrible language on many levels (as are other languages).

It also just works, especially for beginners.
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Didn't we all go through this?

1. Ooo, PHP is awesome, I can make stuff happen on a server!
2. Hm, well, PHP has its problems, let's open source a microframework to fix it!
3. Oh my god, PHP is horrible, let's rant about it on a blog!
4. Who cares that PHP is horrible? It's the application that counts.

OP is at step 3, currently.
But you're pretty much describing the Internet as it is now :-)... Each country having their own Internet separate from the rest of the world is counter-productive - I remember Russia wanted to introduce their own domain names in cyrillic and create some sort of Russian-only net a decade ago - the idea wasn't very popular with the people...
Most of these are legitimate points. 95%-99% even. Some of them are certainly preferences, however, and that bothers me. If PHP were designed to satisfy all of the complaints, we'd end up with something fairly similar to python with curly braces.

I would really like to see PHP take the time in the next version to fix all of the inconsistencies.
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I also miss a discussion of how the protocol avoid denials of service once it's assumed that the UDP comes from any address -- if every packet from any address actually has to be decrypted.
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I think this is an argument that we are not good at three things:

- Making better languages more accessible to utter newbies (PHP is unarguably the easiest to "get working", if nothing else of the prevalence of hosting).

- Showing newbie PHP developers how to do it better

- Introducing "better" languages to advanced newbies

The fact that PHP is used so widely as a gateway language, and the web is stuffed full of bad advice, is a systemic failure in those of us who know how to program well...