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No you've misunderstood. What I actually said was essentially that a lot of experts, aren't. Even ones who really believe they are. Whether Twitter is doing be
by throwawaylinux 4y ago
No you've misunderstood. What I actually said was essentially that a lot of experts, aren't. Even ones who really believe they are.
Whether Twitter is doing better or worse really has nothing to do with these predictions that were made. The issue is that you obviously don't need literally hundreds or thousands of engineers to keep Twitter generally running and providing a similar kind of service. It might see a down tick in quality or outages, new features might take longer to be implemented. But that's not the service exploding and grinding to a halt.
I was just musing -- maybe some of the people making these kind of predictions are people who think meetings and work groups and committees and powerpoint slides constitutes useful work as opposed to a (sometimes unavoidable) drag that is to be minimized at all costs.
- krainboltgreene 4y agoI understood what you meant, it's not a complex point, and it's not novel or interesting. That you can find people who are wrong about the future is not exciting. > The issue is that you obviously don't need literally hundreds or thousands of engineers to keep Twitter generally running and providing a similar kind of service. [...] It might see a down tick in quality or outages, new features might take longer to be implemented. But that's not the service exploding and grinding to a halt. 1. That is not a "similar kind of service", it's worse service. 2. Those aren't the only things that are happening. Normal people are finding out that "the service" is more than 240 character text values (even if HN engineers disagree).
- throwawaylinux 4y agoNo, you quite clearly didn't understand what I meant. And it is a similar level and of service. What's happening? Certainly nothing that "the experts" claimed would.