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Re:Programmers' Day by yesbabyyes on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:05AM (#2990587)
Instagram has 3 engineers[1], 9 million users[2]: 3 million users per engineer.

[1] (counting the co-founders as engineers) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram [2] http://www.kullin.net/2011/09/instagram-now-has-9-million-us...

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Re:Programmers' Day by spiralganglion on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:15AM (#2990610)
And, unless I'm mistaken, a revenue hovering around $0.

That's the hacker spirit.

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Re:Programmers' Day by dsl on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:27AM (#2990760)
The first rule of the bubble is you don't talk about things that might make it pop.
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Re:Programmers' Day by m_myers on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @11:36AM (#2991911)
Personally, I'm on pins and needles waiting to see if it will.
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Re:Programmers' Day by DannoHung on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @12:00PM (#2992030)
I know people like Instagram because of the filters and such, but is it cool otherwise? I mean, I've got it installed on my phone, but I hardly ever take pictures with my iPhone (3GS, maybe that explains it?) in the first place.
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