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Not OP. No anger in his words. Please don't make OP feel inadequate for expressing themselves clearly.
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
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> Look how X has diminished in quality as Elon started slashing team sizes. He had a point there though: He said that there seem to be "3 managers 'managing' one engineer", and I believe this is a common problem in the industry. VC-funded startups are terribly overstaffed and over-inflated.
Musk's actions have certainly damaged Twitter and its engineering. When you set the house on fire of course some termites will get killed but then you might also kill some babies and the family dog. A lot of tech companies have bloat in the form of AI ethics people, DEI people and so on. They need to go. But Musk probably hurt twitter a lot in short term by firing a lot of engineers and making it a place that made pe…
> AI ethics people
These do actually have a proper job. They do ethics laundering for the tech companies and are very valuable.
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I think this idea hurts the industry. Don't get me wrong. I think it is important to hire the right people, but if you don't hire enough people this 3 man job is 80-100 hours a week per for months to years. Look how X has diminished in quality as Elon started slashing team sizes. Then when you design more features, security and other various systems to serve the customers it will creep in complexity. You can not esca…
I have noticed absolutely no difference with Twitter/X. I am a casual user, sure, but for me it seems to work well.
Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified phone number), then my company's phone number wasn't accepted. I gave up after that
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#66I have chills thinking about the oncall schedule of these 3 colleagues...
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They had a different person/team working on the front end and/or they don't remember?
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If it was compiled from more than 1 article, it becomes an original article. The post should have only novel idea and info. is an arbitrary requirement and not the meaning of that rule.
Though I would add if author were taking anything verbatim, that should be highlighted as a quote with the original source. (edit: reading more, author has already done that.)
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#68Interesting I wonder if its seems easy because it’s explained simply or if it really is simple to put in place. I want to make a clone now, just to try. At least for this inspiration, this article was well worth the read. Thanks !
Author here. Comments like this make my day, so thank you!
I’m trying to find old software engineering gems and explain them as simply as possible, so I’m glad you found it simple to understand.
Also, it’s definitely possible to make a clone, but the hard part is getting the users :)
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I think this idea hurts the industry. Don't get me wrong. I think it is important to hire the right people, but if you don't hire enough people this 3 man job is 80-100 hours a week per for months to years. Look how X has diminished in quality as Elon started slashing team sizes. Then when you design more features, security and other various systems to serve the customers it will creep in complexity. You can not esca…
I have noticed absolutely no difference with Twitter/X. I am a casual user, sure, but for me it seems to work well.
I'm not even a casual user, I just go there when a friend sends me a funny tweet or an article point to one, and even I have noticed major bugs like comments not loading or other functionalities not working.
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You talk as if monolithic apps are vastly superior. To be forward it depends entirely on the purpose and life of the application. It is about whatever shoe fits the design.
Sure. It’s just that 99% of applications work fine (or better) as a monolithic design.
And you of course have data to prove it, right?