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I initially thought this was PG larping the HN trolling position of “this tech could be easily replicated” (1) but reading the entire thread I’m not sure sure!

I initially thought this was PG larping the HN trolling position of “this tech could be easily replicated” (1) but reading the entire thread I’m not sure sure! (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Dylan16807 5y ago
Trolling?? Also why do people keep ignoring the "For a linux user" part? But to the topic, why would it be non-serious? If you can't make a basic clone of most websites in a month, you're not a very good web dev team.
- cinntaile 5y ago
  Making a basic clone is not what makes Twitter Twitter.
- saurik 5y ago
  > Also why do people keep ignoring the "For a linux user" part? Because people like to feel superior and it is more fun for them to be trite while doing it; it is the same reason why people keep referencing the early reviews of the iPod, ignoring that that device did suck and only became popular years later when they made both product improvements and introduced iTunes. > If you can't make a basic clone of most websites in a month, you're not a very good web dev team. Also: 100% this. People then like to whine about "but the scale is impossible to pull off" and frankly that isn't even true either (though to do it cost effectively I agree would be difficult, but if you don't know how to throw together something very similar to Twitter that could even handle billions of users with just a few engineers in a month in 2022 using all of the tooling we now have at our disposal then you are clearly an amateur)... the hard part isn't building the tech now, it is bootstrapping an actual community, which maybe Elon could do? or maybe he couldn't. I'm pessimistic, but I also wouldn't be shocked if he pulled it off.
  - histriosum 5y ago
    ...billions of users? Seriously? I take your point about scale not being impossible.. but Twitter seems to have roughly 250 million active users. So claiming that anyone ought to be able to scale to billions is perhaps optimistic of all of our skills.

Dylan16807 5y ago

Trolling?? Also why do people keep ignoring the "For a linux user" part? But to the topic, why would it be non-serious? If you can't make a basic clone of most websites in a month, you're not a very good web dev team.

cinntaile 5y ago
Making a basic clone is not what makes Twitter Twitter.
saurik 5y ago
> Also why do people keep ignoring the "For a linux user" part? Because people like to feel superior and it is more fun for them to be trite while doing it; it is the same reason why people keep referencing the early reviews of the iPod, ignoring that that device did suck and only became popular years later when they made both product improvements and introduced iTunes. > If you can't make a basic clone of most websites in a month, you're not a very good web dev team. Also: 100% this. People then like to whine about "but the scale is impossible to pull off" and frankly that isn't even true either (though to do it cost effectively I agree would be difficult, but if you don't know how to throw together something very similar to Twitter that could even handle billions of users with just a few engineers in a month in 2022 using all of the tooling we now have at our disposal then you are clearly an amateur)... the hard part isn't building the tech now, it is bootstrapping an actual community, which maybe Elon could do? or maybe he couldn't. I'm pessimistic, but I also wouldn't be shocked if he pulled it off.
- histriosum 5y ago
  ...billions of users? Seriously? I take your point about scale not being impossible.. but Twitter seems to have roughly 250 million active users. So claiming that anyone ought to be able to scale to billions is perhaps optimistic of all of our skills.