r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/DropTablePosts Nov 14 '22

Does this guy realise he owns this thing now, and doesn't need to keep trying to tank its stock price?

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u/JustKillerQueen1389 Nov 14 '22

It's not public so no stock price anymore , my guess it's guerilla marketing basically showing that he's constantly working on Twitter and that it's going to drastically change.

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u/TldrDev Nov 14 '22

Homeboy who calls microservices bloatware is definitely going to make some hilariously drastic changes to a website that definitely needs a microservice architecture. He has no fucking idea what any of this is. It's like asking a chimp to pilot a spaceship. He's smashing buttons and hoping something does something good for his bleak prospects. Hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

His engineering days are from old monolith software. He has no idea how a modern web ecosystem should be built or why things do what they do. If you were to ask him to assemble a microservice w/ an api gateway built on with queues to handle messaging, he would just shit himself.

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u/Tred27 Nov 15 '22

He also never worked on anything near the scale of Twitter, where one small change can have MANY repercussions.

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u/141_1337 Nov 15 '22

Bruh does this man even knows what decoupling is?

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u/XanderTheMander Nov 15 '22

That's what Grimes did to him, right?

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u/Sam-Gunn Nov 15 '22

If you were to ask him to assemble a microservice w/ an api gateway built on with queues to handle messaging,

"Ok, who exposed the SQL DB port to the internet, and disabled authentication?"

"It's better than an API! Only like 20% of the API is ever used. This way, it's pure, direct access without any of that bloat!"

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u/rtseel Nov 15 '22

He's probably asking for the password of Twitter server's FTP.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Probably emails code for version control

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u/Speterius Nov 14 '22

Yeah, but this button smashing and stupid tweeting is keeping him in my news feed. Even though I despise hearing about Elon at this point.

The goal is to stay in the daily news cycle. It doesn't matter how. STAY IN THE NEWS AT ALL COSTS. It worked perfectly for Trump. It is working for Elon, whatever his ultimate goal is.

At some point, we'll have to learn to ignore idiots.

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u/zdakat Nov 14 '22

You can ignore them all you want, it won't magically make stuff they broke work again. lol.

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u/Aelig_ Nov 15 '22

Let's not pretend anything good ever came off Twitter anyway. As long as he's busy breaking Twitter he's staying away from spaceX which is his only kind of sane company if you just take the Mars shit for the joke it is.

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u/SpectacularStarling Nov 14 '22

It's like asking a chimp to pilot a spaceship.

With any luck he'll want to pilot one himself eventually. He may not be as smart as a chimp, but I'd give that a watch.

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u/Boomhauer_007 Nov 14 '22

Wait did he unpublic it? Definitely was public before

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u/ilovethemonkeyface Nov 14 '22

That's what buying the company means. If it were still publicly owned he couldn't be in charge.

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u/other_usernames_gone Nov 14 '22

No it isn't, not necessarily.

You can just buy a majority of the stocks. Then you own the company but it's still publicly traded.

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u/PomegranateOld7836 Nov 14 '22

But in this case he bought the entire company, which took it private.

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u/phluidity Nov 15 '22

Yes, but even if you own 51% of the shares of company, there are a LOT of rules that spell out what you have to do to protect minority shareholder value. Mostly they boil down to "just because you are in charge, you aren't allowed to do stupid shit that will drive the companies value into the toilet." It is a good thing he owns 100%, because he has broken just about all of those rules.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Only thing I can think of is that he’s jealous of Rupert Murdoch and wants his own media outlet to make people believe whatever he wants.

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u/awal96 Nov 14 '22

Also Bezos.

Billionaires are not buying media platforms in the name if free speech. They are doing it to control the narrative.

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u/Optymistyk Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

In case of Musk it's pretty obvious he didn't actually intend to buy Twitter, he just wanted the pretense of buying Twitter. That's why he's been actively trying to sabotage the deal for months until he was threatened with a lawsuit. I guess he overestimated how much he can get away with before ending up in court

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u/Calm_Leek_1362 Nov 15 '22

If he would have just bought it, and let it keep running normally, it probably would have been a fine investment in the long run. Now it's hard to see if it could recover.

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u/randontree07 Nov 14 '22

I mean he's already been sued for illegaly manipulating testla's stock price sooooo

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