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Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from. Even wi

by Zigurd 3y ago

Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from. Even with all that, Threads was launched conservatively. Not in Europe at all. Threads got 10 times the expected sign-ups. It scaled up faster than anything ever has. That's pretty remarkable.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from. Unless you count Tesla and SpaceX, which Musk apparently did, as places to borrow from, despite the rather different application domains.
- infamouscow 3y ago
  Do you have hard evidence Musk was instructing Tesla and SpaceX employees to work on Twitter? I recall several poorly written reports on this subject. It turned out the Tesla and SpaceX employees were consulting on the side, which is not the same as commanding an entire department by fiat to drop everything at Tesla or SpaceX and work on Twitter. Zuckerberg has that option, Musk does not. The fact this has to be clarified in a HN thread is an astonishing indictment of the state of the education system and the public's reading comprehension.
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > Do you have hard evidence If I had hard evidence, I wouldn’t say “apparently”.
    - infamouscow 3y ago
      If a fallacious rumor spreads, hiding behind "apparently" doesn't absolve one from being rightfully called out for promulgating bullshit.
- Zigurd 3y ago
  There are reasons to doubt anyone from Tesla was seconded to Twitter, unless Twitter paid (lol) Tesla, a publicly traded corp where Elon is an officer and fiduciary, fair value for an insanely valuable resource. If they didn't that would be some egregious self-dealing.

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Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from. Even wi

by Zigurd 3y ago

dragonwriter 3y ago
> Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from. Unless you count Tesla and SpaceX, which Musk apparently did, as places to borrow from, despite the rather different application domains.
- infamouscow 3y ago
  Do you have hard evidence Musk was instructing Tesla and SpaceX employees to work on Twitter? I recall several poorly written reports on this subject. It turned out the Tesla and SpaceX employees were consulting on the side, which is not the same as commanding an entire department by fiat to drop everything at Tesla or SpaceX and work on Twitter. Zuckerberg has that option, Musk does not. The fact this has to be clarified in a HN thread is an astonishing indictment of the state of the education system and the public's reading comprehension.
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > Do you have hard evidence If I had hard evidence, I wouldn’t say “apparently”.
    - infamouscow 3y ago
      If a fallacious rumor spreads, hiding behind "apparently" doesn't absolve one from being rightfully called out for promulgating bullshit.
- Zigurd 3y ago
  There are reasons to doubt anyone from Tesla was seconded to Twitter, unless Twitter paid (lol) Tesla, a publicly traded corp where Elon is an officer and fiduciary, fair value for an insanely valuable resource. If they didn't that would be some egregious self-dealing.