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Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by ddingus »

cma wrote: post #5
sn0w_crash wrote: post #3

If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated. Not sure what the news is here.

Musk has said he's a free speech absolutist, and also he likes to cultivate an environment where iron sharpens iron. This shouldn't be job-ending for someone who extends the first amendment to 'corporation owners shall make no rule abridging the freedom of speech, especially in their own town square'..

Exactly!

Everyone loves the speaking part of being a "free speech absolutist", but having to learn to handle the speech of others who enjoy similar absolutism is a far different thing!

Frankly, Elon does not appear to be very well equipped in this area.

And he has options! Lots of them that could be spun in a good direction for everyone.

The thing about free speech absolutism is it goes both ways. All ways, frankly.

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by ren_engineer »

if you are going to publicly go after your boss, at least make sure you are right- https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15921947898012221...

Twitter guy admits rendering the timeline hits well over 200 different microservices, which probably does add up to around 1000 internal requests. He even admits they have 10 years of tech debt and that they need to fix and essentially blames previous leadership for not focusing on performance. Also every request apparently has to do a full round trip to the US data center regardless of location worldwide. Musk really isn't wrong here, Twitter is a mess

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by arthurcolle »

ren_engineer wrote: post #12

if you are going to publicly go after your boss, at least make sure you are right- https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15921947898012221... Twitter guy admits rendering the timeline hits well over 200 different microservices, which probably does add up to around 1000 internal requests. He even admits they have 10 years of tech debt and that they need to fix and essentially blames previous leadership for not fo…

I'm sure they must have a pretty good caching infrastructure, so the number of requests in total is pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. They just broke 2FA via SMS literally because he started shutting down components in their SOA.

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by dymk »

ren_engineer wrote: post #12

if you are going to publicly go after your boss, at least make sure you are right- https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15921947898012221... Twitter guy admits rendering the timeline hits well over 200 different microservices, which probably does add up to around 1000 internal requests. He even admits they have 10 years of tech debt and that they need to fix and essentially blames previous leadership for not fo…

I’m willing to believe the engineer of 6 years who works on the timeline is more knowledgeable than Musk here

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by feet »

SleekoNiko wrote: post #8
sn0w_crash wrote: post #3

If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated. Not sure what the news is here.

Does publicly correcting your boss count as "dunking on" them? I didn't see the employee calling Elon a moron or anything like that. Elon made a statement, Eric told Elon was wrong based on his experience, Elon asked for him to elaborate, Eric did so, and Elon didn't like that. If I'm working for you, and you don't have the humility to be wrong about a relatively small detail in public, I don't think I want to work f…

>Does publicly correcting your boss count as "dunking on" them?

Only if you have a fragile ego that depends on being perceived as brilliant when that is clearly not the case

Re: Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong

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Post by bagels »

sn0w_crash wrote: post #3

If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated. Not sure what the news is here.

Does your boss publicly insult your work?

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that what the engineer did wasn't obviously going to lead to getting fired, but I can sympathize with where the motivation to respond came from. I'd certainly not be happy if some corporate raider fired my colleagues and then turned to publicly insulting my and their work.

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