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Gigablah on Feb 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coming Soon in HHVM

I'm sorry but that's extremely condescending of you.

You might as well feel sad that these brilliant people are not "curing cancer" or "eliminating AIDS" or something.

nightski on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

About as condescending as saying it is a waste of time to improve methods for bloodletting to cure disease.

ta_6c_0677Fr on Feb 17, 2015 | [–]

Bloodletting is still used in modern medicine. With the leeches and everything.

nightski on Feb 18, 2015 | | [–]

As is PHP ;)

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