I gotta feeling that software types will love this piece in MIT’s Technology Review, about how Musk cucked himself by sacking all those engineers at Twitter. On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsite. And they saw it through retweets.
It's kind of amazing just how much manual intervention the site seems to require. All that AI and advertising must need a lot of (creaky) code. Remember, at the point where Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp, it had twelve engineers, supporting a billion (or was it only 500k at that point?) users on a single server. Kind of hard to imagine that expanding to multiple thousands (in all dimensions) but I guess that you have to introduce the bugs somehow.
It's pretty normal for a codebase to age out as more and more changes are made. It needs to be refactored/re-engineered from the ground up again. Otherwise your playing Sisyphus.
As many problems as I've got with Microsoft they've (mostly?) succesfully done that with most of their products over the decades.
I'm guessing Musks genius never included asking anyone who had a clue about actual software though.
Has Mr Musk released the code as he promised he would?
War Wraith tweeted a pic of the Joker's money-burning scene with Enol's face. I snorted my tea.
It's kind of amazing just how much manual intervention the site seems to require. All that AI and advertising must need a lot of (creaky) code. Remember, at the point where Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp, it had twelve engineers, supporting a billion (or was it only 500k at that point?) users on a single server. Kind of hard to imagine that expanding to multiple thousands (in all dimensions) but I guess that you have to introduce the bugs somehow.
It's pretty normal for a codebase to age out as more and more changes are made. It needs to be refactored/re-engineered from the ground up again. Otherwise your playing Sisyphus.
As many problems as I've got with Microsoft they've (mostly?) succesfully done that with most of their products over the decades.
I'm guessing Musks genius never included asking anyone who had a clue about actual software though.
But it’s still only social media, it’s not like it’s real or anything.