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Did Elon pay the AWS bill? That seems like a likely culprit. Twitter instances are being forcibly shutdown.
Well, they haven't paid their GCP bill... https://theconversation.com/twitter-is-refusing-to-pay-googl...
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-payi...
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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.
From experience management really don't care about the state of the code or infrastructure. All they want to know is the soonest something can be done. Elon strikes me as worse because he likes to think he understands what his engineers know.
Early on in my career I had a name for this. I called it "gamle helter" in Norwegian which roughly translates to "old heroes". An "old hero" is someone who used to be competent in a field, has stopped being competent, doesn't recognize this themselves and is now a nuisance to anyone who actually knows what they are doing, but can't pull rank. One way to become an old hero is typically to end up in management and not practice whatever discipline you think you understand.
To be fair, I highly doubt that Musk was ever a competent software engineer, much less a good engineering manager. He is a PR person. He sells an image that he is a technology person.
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From previous stories about Elon, telling him he’s wrong is a guarantee you’re going under that bus.
Every person in power is told he's wrong every day, all day, by most everyone. Heck, I've hired people to teach me things, told them they were wrong, and learned the hard way, many times.
All Elon had to do was leave it alone and, oh, right, the 44 billion. Hahahahaha! Man, Parag Agrawal and his team knew exactly what they were doing. A fool and his money are soon parted, indeed.
I have an alternative theory for this. Once Elon was forced by the DE court to buy Twitter, he went to autocrats and dictators with money and told them he'd burn Twitter to the ground on their behalf for 44B. No Twitter, no Arab Spring. No live updates of disasters, no need to shutdown the internet to prevent dissenting voices from spreading.
> If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date. > Twitter’s Google Cloud contract dates back to 2018. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-payi... Oh... this explains all this fiasco :facepalm:
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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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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-...
Can sponsored H1-B visa holders look for another sponsorship to try to switch jobs, or would they get deported after resigning from "hardcore Twitter"?
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Or they're just people trying to earn their pay. Why must everything be a political divide these days...
You say that in a tone of contradiction, but sycophants are absolutely trying to earn their pay. They've just decided that their true job is what their context rewards.