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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by badrequest »

paxys wrote: post #572
tmpz22 wrote: post #413

Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.

Twitter Engineers have had over a year to get out and find another job. At this point the terms of their employment and the expectations from their boss are all crystal clear. Hard to sympathize with those who continue to stick around for whatever reason.

Sounds like you live in a bubble where nobody needs immigration sponsorship.

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Post by badrequest »

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #708
voganmother42 wrote: post #667

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this really easier than consulting a calendar? Its the weekend before the 4th of July, the independence day for USA - many employers give employees Monday and Tuesday off, creating a potential four day break during what is typically very good weather - that being said Twitter is presumably (still) an international company with people in all different holiday areas.

I searched "what holiday is it this weekend" on kagi and found nothing. I don't know what country GP is in and I haven't heard about any public holidays this weekend. The "America is the default" is tiring. The US makes up ~ 5% of the population, and most of us do not default to American thinking.

seems like a great reason not to use Kagi

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Post by Johnny555 »

paxys wrote: post #572
tmpz22 wrote: post #413

Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.

Twitter Engineers have had over a year to get out and find another job. At this point the terms of their employment and the expectations from their boss are all crystal clear. Hard to sympathize with those who continue to stick around for whatever reason.

Someone pointed out that it looks like most of the workers that stayed at Twitter appear to be foreign born and are probably reliant on Twitter's sponsorship of their H1-B visa.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...

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Post by Shekelphile »

craig1f wrote: post #15

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> The two remaining sites that allow regular people to post and have discussions are being wiped off the internet in time for the next election. By the next US presidential election, there won't be ways to access information that don't go through the "wrong" people first. Hacker News is all that's left, and it's not big enough to be significant.

The 2028 election is more worrying IMO, especially since it seems like Musk is angling to run for president and doesn't seem to mind running despite not legally being able to hold the office. It feels like he views kowtowing to the MAGA crowd and controlling large media platform(s) as essential to that plan.

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Post by starbugs »

nashashmi wrote: post #649
tmpz22 wrote: post #413

Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.

The arrogance of the guy is so huge, hubris does not touch him. Thoughts are with the programmers. What I’m more surprised about is how gum and shoestring the twitter engineering is now a days. They put in no emphasis on doing deep divides into the code base and instead opt to do the simplest shortest fix. And it causes problems.

Applying the simplest shortest fix can sometimes be a good method to synchronize the state of the code with management.

Instead of engineering trying to buffer and fix weird management decisions, this just exposes them.

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

7e wrote: post #469
WalterBright wrote: post #453

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If they’re on an H1-B, they practically are.

A lot of H1-Bs are from India. They can easily move back and get very well paying jobs back home. I would even say that in terms of purchasing power, they’ll be better off in India - salaries of $80-100k are common for pedigreed tech talent, and your expenses won’t be more than $20-25k.

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Post by laserlight »

ineedasername wrote: post #749
martincmartin wrote: post #373

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The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…

>The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left Not necessarily. I’ve predicted bad outcomes for decisions in a few cases and been ignored but stuck around regardless. Mostly because I like my job and the goals of my organization even if it makes bad decisions. Of course to remain productive and improve my influence in future decision making it is absolutely…

> goals of my organization

What do you think they are?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by pc_edwin »

Its funny how the entirety of silicon valley just forgot that Twitter was infamous for their unholy mess of a codebase which at some points looked like it had a secret mission to increase world entropy and terraform the planet.

I still remember watching podcasts, reading blogposts, hearing prominent VC's like Elad talking about etc.. Now everbody silent because Elon is the baba yaga...

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