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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by gbog on Monday April 09, 2012 @08:58PM (#3820144)
You are depreciating their work in a way that is not that of a real gentleman. Maybe you are also working on a startup and would like to make it to where Instagram guys are? Me too, you know.

And for their tech stack what its impressing is that they chose very wisely IMO: if I had to build from scratch any Web or mobile app I wouldn't do differently (Python n PostgreSQL, etc)

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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by GiraffeNecktie on Monday April 09, 2012 @09:06PM (#3820171)
He's being a bit flippant but his point is correct. You don't spend a billion dollars just to get three engineers, no matter how clever they are.
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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by Danieru on Monday April 09, 2012 @10:50PM (#3820423)
I don't know... These ones were clever enough to get someone to pay a billion dollars for them.

That's pretty clever.

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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by ceejayoz on Monday April 09, 2012 @10:53PM (#3820433)
Did the pay for the three engineers, or the thirty million users?
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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by maratd on Monday April 09, 2012 @09:44PM (#3820280)
> You are depreciating their work in a way that is not that of a real gentleman.

I do the same exact kind of work. So am I depreciating myself? I may be brilliant and handsome to boot, but I don't think I'm worth 333 million dollars. Which was my point.

Oh sure, I might be worth several mil. I'm that good. But that's still a tiny fraction of what Facebook paid. So no, it wasn't about the brains.

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