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Based on what I've heard from former engineers there, there are still plenty of opportunities for things to go very wrong. Maybe not this week or this year, but
by czx4f4bd 4y ago
Based on what I've heard from former engineers there, there are still plenty of opportunities for things to go very wrong. Maybe not this week or this year, but the sheer amount of lost knowledge means they're really skating on thin ice right now.
If they were to have a seriously catastrophic incident, it's conceivable that they might not have anyone left who knows how to get things back online. It's not inconceivable that they could eventually figure it out, but without that essential knowledge, who knows how long that could take? I imagine it would be pretty bad for Twitter's future if the site were unavailable for days or weeks on end.
- wyclif 4y agoI'd put all my chips on George Hotz, but he's got a lot of work to do because he'll only be there for 12 weeks.
- piva00 4y agoGeorge Hotz is an amazing technical person but you are putting him in a pedestal of Saviour that... Isn't really how technical stuff works. Twitter is a quite complex distributed system, as good as geohot is he's just a guy, with one brain, capable of holding a limited amount of information and context at a time. There's no way that one guy, no matter how good, can actually completely reason about all aspects of a complex system. Even less in 12 weeks, that's actually absurdly preposterous.
- FranzFerdiNaN 4y agoGeorge Hotz is asking on Twitter for people to solve his problems for him, because he is incapable of doing basic web development things like removing the login pop up: https://twitter.com/corg_e/status/1595287073547862018 https://twitter.com/corg_e/status/1595287073547862018
- wyclif 4y agoI really think you are vastly underestimating George. He's clearly a brilliant programmer.
- FranzFerdiNaN 4y agoA brilliant programmer isnt asking on twitter for ''a oneliner i can paste in the console'' to fix something that is basically not much harder than a take home assingment for a job interview.
- jpamata 4y agoProbably just that he doesnt want to waste time on it. He's been shown to be a powerhouse problem solver. Since we're posting tweets: SpaceX Dragon: https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1593133313484787713 https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1593133313484787713 Optimism: https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459 https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459
- Apocryphon 4y agoPerhaps the above just goes to show what an immense mess that modern web development is if a reputed genius has to farm out React work.