The next outage will have a good likelihood of being the last outage.
Care to wager?
I think the danger is overstated because I sense there is a lot of misinfo and exaggeration going on
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I remember getting into Sangria (Scala's GraphQL implementation) for the first time a couple years ago and seeing Twitter devs helping contribute to the lib. Was excited to see Twitter push that envelope. Now sad to see it all go away.
Twitter is one the few Scala shops around, would be sad to lose it.
The Scala community is so small that I know the names of almost all of the top engineers many of whom worked at Twitter.
The idea that they are just going to find dozens of them is hilariously insane.
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#353This will be an interesting experiment in large scale code rot. How long do you think twitter.com will work with the code base frozen?
Not long, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. With the code base frozen, no new incompatibilities can be introduced. That's how software (including operating system) releases worked for many years, and they did work. VM/container images are still basically this way, and they tend to keep running quite well too. One problem with both of these models is that existing security vulnerabilities don't get fixed, but…
Dude, they use machine learning to tune JVM and OS scheduler, they'll handle restarts just fine.
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#354Looks like the employee who was in charge of managing badge access was laid off and several staff have locked themselves out! https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442
Twitter reality is so strange that almost anything is believable at this point. But this tweet is parody as it turns out: https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593407201913278464
Initially I actually believed this to be true. The line is getting more and more blurry with every single day under the Chief Twit!
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside: there is no "technically resigned" here, if they're referring to Musk's loyalty-pledge deadline. Those employees have been terminated -- and are entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protections.
I wonder if this legally really is the case. Twitter seems to have asked "Do you still want to work here", giving an option to affirm. They didn't say "you have to go", they said "you may go if you do not like the new direction of the company, please tell us which one it is". I'd be rather careful with that, and not just proclaim these people were terminated. I see a rather good chance court could rule very different…
The magic proclamation is actually going the other way. If the company is ending the employment, that is termination. The company does not get to simply say "well you've resigned."
Perhaps you're not arguing termination vs resignation but rather whether they're entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protection? That's more open for debate, but the former employees are entitled to those considerations (which they would not be had they resigned).
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There is just so much irony all over this, at every level and every side. It’s hilarious. Musk wanted to buy it, then tried to back away. The board tried to prevent the sale, then sued to make it happen. Employees loathed the idea of Musk being their boss, but also wanted his cash for their stock. And as much good a pubic soapbox platform could have been for society, destroying the company seems to me to be the only…
It’s an unpopular opinion but I find it all funny too, for the reasons you described. The degree to which people are experiencing self-righteous outrage over twitter is in direct proportion to how histrionic and annoying their personas are. Twitter may have had some fine contributors, but I think it was a net negative on culture, and encouraged shallow thinking and moral grandstanding. And there’s an upside. If the p…
You are completely right but if not Twitter, it will be something else. There is real demand for these net negatives.
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Yeah. Multiple entire teams that run critical systems have reportedly left. It’s over. Dead site running. Such a horrible loss. Glad the stockholders are happy. This was clearly better than the lawsuit. /s
The shareholders got paid; this isn’t their circus anymore.
some of them didn't. at least the saudis and @jack both rolled their stake over to the new ownership.
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If I'm giving Elon the benefit of the doubt, A. he's intelligent B. He has 20+ years of corporate experience running companies, I would assume that there was some method to this madness. If I had to guess, he came in with the assumption that forces in the company would be hostile to him based on their beliefs. In order to weed those forces out, he engineered some of this madness to shake those people out. Unfortunate…
I'm amazed at how naive some of the people are here. Why not just accept what you're seeing with your own two eyes? Why look for an alternate explanation?
Twitter is still online. Where's the huge fire everyone is talking about?
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside: there is no "technically resigned" here, if they're referring to Musk's loyalty-pledge deadline. Those employees have been terminated -- and are entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protections.
I wonder if this legally really is the case. Twitter seems to have asked "Do you still want to work here", giving an option to affirm. They didn't say "you have to go", they said "you may go if you do not like the new direction of the company, please tell us which one it is". I'd be rather careful with that, and not just proclaim these people were terminated. I see a rather good chance court could rule very different…
You can’t send out an email asking “Do you NOT quit?”
Quitting is a process you do, you give a letter, or you tell your boss, or you stop showing up to work, anything else is termination
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#360Are people who still want to argue that Elon isn't destroying Twitter?
You really can’t argue when twitter works fine right now and everything is just talk till it happens.