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I 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 excitin
by krainboltgreene 4y ago
I 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.