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A union vote is the only way to save that platform. Either unionize or let the company die.
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Be able to brag about ones lack of education takes a lot of courage. Kudos to you sir.
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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This is a perfect example of how "shareholder value" is a thought-terminating cliche. Twitter was previously a public company, which was beholden to shareholders, and aimed to try and increase its stock price (as far as "shareholder value" actually means anything, this is basically it). I wouldn't praise previous management (the company wasn't profitable), but they were not a complete dumpster fire. Then Twitter was…
> not a complete dumpster fire. I never liked Twitter, don't have accounts, etc. To me this "dumpster fire" talk sounds like just sour grapes.
It’s well documented that advertisers have been fleeing Twitter because they see the new management as bad for them. While Twitter has engineering and reliability problems, the loss of advertising revenue is the life or death challenge for the company.
I’m pretty ambivalent about advertising, but it was the only reasonable way for Twitter to make money, so I would not have bought Twitter and then chased away all the advertisers.
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And when you're at Twitter scale, sprinkle some jitter too.
What do you mean?
Say you have a bug that caused 100,000 HTTP requests to hang, and you kick the node and make them all fail at once. One second later, 100,000 clients suddenly retry simultaneously, causing a huge spike in load which makes most of their requests fail. They use exponential backoff, so two seconds after that, 99,000 clients retry, causing a huge spike in load that makes most of their requests fail. Four seconds after that, 98,000 clients retry...
If you introduce a bit of randomness into the retry timing (say, multiply by 1.8~2.2 instead of a straight doubling), that thundering herd will spread itself out and be much easier to recover from.
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A union vote is the only way to save that platform. Either unionize or let the company die.
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Very bold claim. In the history of the world like you say, unions shaped our world in a good way. Certainly not all unions, but it literally saved workers life from corporate abuse. Check the Asbestos Corporation in 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_strike.
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#355Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement. Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof. I can of…
>Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement.
In this case the horrible idea is being forced to push changes to production at a moments notice
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Did Elon pay the AWS bill? That seems like a likely culprit. Twitter instances are being forcibly shutdown.
Twitter operates its own datacenters.
And yet they also host with AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle. Cloud people take note: this is what lock-in looks like, and it's coming to a place near you.
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You gotta get executives in writing sometimes or they'll throw you under the bus later.
If executives are throwing you under a bus, make an exit. There’s no coming back from a clown show like that.
I have a general rule that I make proactive, diligent efforts to inform and correct, and I do it 3 times to 3 different groups in leadership, and if that doesn't work, I'm out.
I'm about 2 for 8 but you gotta try sometimes.
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#359What I find more ironic than this bug is is that all of these Mastodon evangelists still have Twitter accounts after their Elon meltdown. So much so that they even use it after Twitter stopped public access.
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Not if you want healthcare and to keep paying your car loan, student loan and mortgage. I’d say employment is less a choice in the us than any other oced country
GP did not mean that employment or not is a choice but rather where to work.