Musk wants to do a “total rewrite” of Twitter • Hacker News Board

Re: Musk wants to do a “total rewrite” of Twitter

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Post by rurp » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 9:17 PM UTC

wellthatsawrap6 wrote: post #10

maxlamb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but the whole reason he gave to do a whole rewrite was that Twitter’s tech stack was horrible… but then couldn’t even answer what is that tech stack and what makes it so horrible

Yeah, you guys are sooooo much smarter than Elon. Carryon.

I don't think it takes a genius software engineer to be able to give a high level description of the stack they are in charge of.

Re: Musk wants to do a “total rewrite” of Twitter

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #17

stuntkite wrote: post #6

Lol. Wasn’t built here huh? Has he ever worked with legacy software ever before? It’s possible he has not. Wild. Do it! And GPL the stack you leave for dead please, Elon.

He paid $44 billion not so start from scratch, and now he wants to start from scratch.

Priceless comment. Well, what's priceless, give or take 44 billion, but still.

Re: Musk wants to do a “total rewrite” of Twitter

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Post by kazinator » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 7:40 AM UTC

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #17

stuntkite wrote: post #6

Lol. Wasn’t built here huh? Has he ever worked with legacy software ever before? It’s possible he has not. Wild. Do it! And GPL the stack you leave for dead please, Elon.

He paid $44 billion not so start from scratch, and now he wants to start from scratch.

If you want to start Twitter from scratch, but don't pay $44B to kill Twitter first, you will likely not go anywhere.

Re: Musk wants to do a “total rewrite” of Twitter

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Post by residualmind » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 10:00 AM UTC

To be fair the way Brown tried to call out Musk, was horrible and a direct attack. You don't talk to anybody like that, no friend, partner, intern or whoever unless you want to provoke them into a reaction. (Referring to his questions about the stack, ending in "buddy") It's really low and Musk was 100% right identifying that as acting like a jackass. Should he have taken it more calmly? Probably. But there is really no point in even talking to bullies like Brown.

Apparently there had been an architecture diagram by Holz that people are aware of and I can only imagine it to be a mammoth.

The laughing heard when Musk mentioned the diagram came from Holz's direction mostly I think at a) the aggressive provocative tone of Brown and b) his hilarious "questions" directly trying to put Musk on the spot about this mammoth tech stack. Everybody knows that just naming things in this 1000+ items diagram won't help anybody but Brown's ego.