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Yeah, thinking about this as an extended vacation seems right to me. Things don't usually go down over the weekend or winter break. That doesn't mean "hey tha

Yeah, thinking about this as an extended vacation seems right to me. Things don't usually go down over the weekend or winter break. That doesn't mean "hey that means we only need 0 employees". Certainly you can make a microblog service with less than 500 engineers, but there is a lot of work invested in their datacenters (from physically managing the machines to their network / orchestration control plane). That can even be outsourced as many companies do, but it ain't free.

blitzar 4y ago
the "story" that the employees were all terrible and the code a disaster would have been proven if the site crashed day 1 I am actually a fan of cycles where "no new features" is a priority, making systems less fragile and tollerate the weekend / holiday helps you sleep at night, and sleeping at night is nice.