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Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

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Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

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Post by crtified »

Here's another correction.

News quote: // Asked what it felt like to be a “media mogul” after buying Twitter he said: “It is a medium as opposed to media." //

Notions of singular/plural and dissembling aside, you do realise you're just the big, exaggerated version of "guy who wastes his life on social media", right??? I mean, come on man. What the heck are you doing? It's the exact same trap that the most middling of ordinary people fall into - just suitably bigger, scaled to your role.

Nobody expected da Vinci to run the local town square. In fact I'm sure we're all glad he didn't.

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

#12

Post by Bubble_Pop_22 »

FührerBunker vibes. I guess Steiner is now in charge of the Android division?

EDIT: For those who have not seen the movie, watch "The Downfall" (2004) for a peek at what might be going on in the Trump/Musk/Putin camp right now. Applies to anyone who has a NPD really

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

#14

Post by jrochkind1 »

crtified wrote: post #11

Here's another correction. News quote: // Asked what it felt like to be a “media mogul” after buying Twitter he said: “It is a medium as opposed to media." // Notions of singular/plural and dissembling aside, you do realise you're just the big, exaggerated version of "guy who wastes his life on social media", right??? I mean, come on man. What the heck are you doing? It's the exact same trap that the most middling of…

Excuse me, that's "guy who wastes his life on social medium."

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

#15

Post by quantified »

PaulHoule wrote: post #4
quantified wrote: post #2

Publicly calling your CEO out like that will generally get you fired. It would be newsworthy if the engineer didn't get released.

That's true. But it's also a setup to get Musk to make yet another own goal by showing how hollow Musk's free-speech absolutism is.

The speech was free in that it wasn't muzzled, the tweet is still up. Doesn't mean it was free of the usual consequences.

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

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Post by salad-fan »

programmarchy wrote: post #8

So, are there 1,000 RPCs needed to render the timeline or not? The Android engineer didn't seem to know the difference between an RPC and a request from an end user client. The former timeline engineer disabled public responses to his tweet and has refused to elaborate. Neither of them backed up their contradiction with a rebuttal. Edit: Was curious so did some digging and found more: > @elonmusk: > I was told ~1200…

Did you even read the Twitter thread? The number (~20) was provided right there.

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

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Post by zero_shift »

programmarchy wrote: post #8

So, are there 1,000 RPCs needed to render the timeline or not? The Android engineer didn't seem to know the difference between an RPC and a request from an end user client. The former timeline engineer disabled public responses to his tweet and has refused to elaborate. Neither of them backed up their contradiction with a rebuttal. Edit: Was curious so did some digging and found more: > @elonmusk: > I was told ~1200…

That depends on proximate versus ultimate causes. Does the Android app "need" the 20 initial HTTP requests or does it "need" the thousands of services that ultimately keep that data in good shape?

I think most people, talking specifically about a client program, mean the former, as the latter is out of its control

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Post by BulgarianIdiot »

programmarchy wrote: post #8

So, are there 1,000 RPCs needed to render the timeline or not? The Android engineer didn't seem to know the difference between an RPC and a request from an end user client. The former timeline engineer disabled public responses to his tweet and has refused to elaborate. Neither of them backed up their contradiction with a rebuttal. Edit: Was curious so did some digging and found more: > @elonmusk: > I was told ~1200…

Elon Musk said "the App makes >1000 RPC".

Calling the backend services the "App" would be atypical. So it's expected than an App engineer (the one on Android, the most popular Twitter App) would assume Elon is talking about calls made by the App, wouldn't he?

There may be 1000+ microservices fed the firehose and so on on the backend. Sure.

But... those microservices also existed two weeks ago, when Twitter was running just fine.

Re: Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter

#20

Post by zero_shift »

Bubble_Pop_22 wrote: post #12

FührerBunker vibes. I guess Steiner is now in charge of the Android division? EDIT: For those who have not seen the movie, watch "The Downfall" (2004) for a peek at what might be going on in the Trump/Musk/Putin camp right now. Applies to anyone who has a NPD really

At some point the leader will have to be informed, quietly, that Steiner was not able to raise his assault
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