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#2“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
"There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
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#3“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters. "There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack
And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
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#4“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters. "There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
90% of their revenue comes from their massive and complicated ads platform, not the basic web app you deal with.
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#5“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters. "There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
Have you ever done CRUD for hundreds of millions of users distributed globally accessing your service 24/7? It's much more complicated than updating a database.
Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...
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#6Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197