wr0ng

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You're right, but it's a strawman argument as I never said that. "it's incredibly well used, but it has faults" is nearer the mark.

wr0ngon Rambling On [PHP] Internals

There's always lots of PHP hating going on from language snobs, mostly from people with toy projects in the latest language du jour (was Ruby, then Node, Scala, now Clojure and Go).

Fact is PHP, for all its faults, still runs far more websites than all of those others combined and then some (http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag... - eg PHP 80%, Ruby 0.5%, Python 0.2%)

wr0ngon We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge

Yes, though regression to the mean might suggest that they won't be so lucky in future.

wr0ngon Effective companies share – Inc is built for them

or Salesforce Chatter?

wr0ngon We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge

They're not. The baseline probability of profitability for these types of companies is incredibly small. However, the potential profit that you might make for any one of these companies is extremely high (usually by selling the company, not by the company's inherent ability to turn a profit) - so invest in multiple companies and if you're lucky the 'big one' will beat your losses many times over.

wr0ngon You use PHP because you don't know better.

What a silly post.

wr0ngon PHP 5.5

From an engineering perspective you're probably correct. However, from a commercial perspective (be it long-term support, business continuity, cost of developers/support) PHP is one of the best solutions.

wr0ngon If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.com, now is the time

Mostly they don't. The payment provider stores this and provides that and the truncated PAN (the card number with digits masked by asterisks).

One of the things you pay payment providers for is for taking on the risk of the higher levels of PCI compliance.