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It's how they get paid. Replacing bloats with extremely simplistic equivalents like stock MySQL instance isn't going to convert well to paychecks. It also means
by numpad0 2y ago
It's how they get paid. Replacing bloats with extremely simplistic equivalents like stock MySQL instance isn't going to convert well to paychecks. It also means your output will be erratic(because it'll be opportunistic), architecture design will be less resilient, and you will be a brilliant jerk that are hard to anticipate.
Elon Musk was supposed to be an uber-genious charisma who've overcome that problem. I suppose he no longer is.
- jiggawatts 2y agoMusk fired thousands of Twitter employees and the system is still running. It’s even getting significant core feature upgrades! Clearly, most of those engineers were superfluous. I’ve thought Twitter was over-engineered years before that event and feel a tiny bit vindicated in holding that opinion against the HN gestalt.