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14 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry

posted by fyngyrz on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the mark-down-mark-up dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Washington Post has a retrospective on 14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry:

From the moment the Facebook founder entered the public eye in 2003 for creating a Harvard student hot-or-not rating site, he's been apologizing. So we collected this abbreviated history of his public mea culpas.

See also:
Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Wednesday April 11 2018, @07:13PM (8 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @07:13PM (#665483)

    Blah blah blah, you're all missing the point. I forgive him for all of that, if it's even necessary, but for writing the whole website in PHP ... I just can't.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:30PM (7 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:30PM (#665530) Homepage Journal

    PHP.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:09PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:09PM (#665550)

      It doesn't deserve capital letters. It should be lower case, in Comic Sans.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:12AM (4 children)

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:12AM (#665769) Journal
      Facebook has a very impressive compiler team. They've figured out that it's cheaper to employ 10,000 cheap code monkeys and 100 compiler engineers to transform the crappy code that they write into something that runs fast than it is to employ 5,000 competent software developers. They do keep repeating the same mistakes though - first with PHP and then they wrote all of their mobile apps in JavaScript and found that they needed to write a faster JavaScript implementation to make performance not such there as well.
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      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:09AM (3 children)

        by Wootery (2341) on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:09AM (#665813)

        Facebook wrote a JavaScript engine? I thought they just moved away from JavaScript and toward native mobile apps.

        • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:27AM (2 children)

          by TheRaven (270) on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:27AM (#665821) Journal
          Their 'native' apps include a huge blob of JavaScript code running in a Facebook customised JavaScript engine.
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          • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:59AM (1 child)

            by Wootery (2341) on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:59AM (#665863)

            What secret sauce do they have that outperforms the JavaScript engines from Google/Mozilla/Apple?

            I'm not seeing anything like a Facebook JavaScript compiler from a quick web search - what's it called?

            • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday April 13 2018, @07:37AM

              by TheRaven (270) on Friday April 13 2018, @07:37AM (#666352) Journal

              What secret sauce do they have that outperforms the JavaScript engines from Google/Mozilla/Apple?

              Different optimisations for different use cases. Their code all uses one (apparently, very flexible but pretty terrible for performance) framework and so is all written in a specific style. Most JavaScript engines have to deal with code from a variety of different sources and care about geomean performance across a large range of benchmarks. Facebook's has to deal with code from a single source and cares about performance for that one codebase. This lets it do a bunch of things that aren't worth the effort for anyone else, because most code doesn't do the stupid things if they care about performance (see previous point about Facebook hiring cheap developers), and it can skip things that other VMs do that optimise cases that are common in general but not in their codebase.

              I'm not seeing anything like a Facebook JavaScript compiler from a quick web search - what's it called?

              I don't think they distribute it. One of my students worked on it before he came to do an MPhil.

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    • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:36PM

      by JeanCroix (573) on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:36PM (#666053)
      ...Pointy-Haired Protocol?