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Elon's bold strategy of "not paying any of his bills" doesn't seem like a great way to keep a service up and running, but then again neither does firing any eng
by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Elon's bold strategy of "not paying any of his bills" doesn't seem like a great way to keep a service up and running, but then again neither does firing any engineer who doesn't agree to be on call 24/7/365 to address Elon's little temper tantrums.
- codeddesign 4y ago[flagged]
- rsynnott 4y agoThe knots that people twist themselves into to claim that everything naughty ol' Mr Car does is always correct are kind of incredible, and, I think, basically unprecedented in the tech space. Steve Jobs' fans were pretty bad, but this is more like L Ron Hubbard's fans.
- codeddesign 4y agoThis has nothing to do with Elon, but rather that’s just how business works. The number of people that criticize without understanding how business works is almost comical. On the otherhand, California and the Valley are pretty comical to the rest of the country..
- DoctorOW 4y agoTwitter's various services have had more downtime in the four months he's owned it then the last year before.
- codeddesign 4y agoTalk is cheap. Back up your claim. Do you have downtime for the past 2-3 years?
- codeddesign 4y agoThat’s your argument back? A completely unrelated comment? ::facepalm::
- YourDadVPN 4y agoIs it unrelated? He's assuming Musk's takeover caused the downtime, but you're assuming it didn't. I can think of several reasons it might've (removing a large amount of staff and overworking the remainder being obvious ones). What's the alternative?
- codeddesign 4y agoOr…the code base is a house of cards built by a poorly managed company. Then when changes are made the legacy code falls apart. This is the more likely scenario. Ultimately Twitter like the rest of the Valley was built on some great developers..and a whole lot of bad ones.
- rtatay 4y agoSeems straightforward to me. Elon steps in, fires a bunch of technology talent, and voila, Twitter is on track to have 3x more downtime in the following year.
- codeddesign 4y agoIf they had talent, they would still have a job or easily move into a role they prefer. Doing a job vs talent are completely different animals. By the way, since we are arguing over downtime..does anyone have tangible stats on this?