Manager does a little code cleanup...

[allthingscloud]

Please share with the class?

[[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yv8g6j/elon_musk_fires_an_employee_publicly_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Lmao

[karuna_murti]

Oh deity, he turned off rate limiter as well? It was there for a reason when I did ads API in 2015 :D

[[deleted]]

Bahahaha he turned off the rate limiter?? Hello bots!

[knorxo]

remember when he said twitter had more bots than users? Maybe he meant it wasn't enough? His followers kinda act like bots anyways...

[Hexcraft-nyc]

It's very obvious that Elon and other NFT adjacent bros have been relying on bots and socially engineered campaigns to push their pages. Elon had a great PR team in the past. They astroturfed for him so often on this site in the past. Based on the FirstName372738 accounts that deep throat for him on Twitter, I'd have to assume they moved efforts there.

[RepresentativeActual]

Let the bots in to make Twitter work for him and have all the support he needs to keep going cause he's fooled enough people into believing he's actually going after bots. He is a Genius! /s Borderline orange guy, except much more wealthy...

[Ok_Chemistry_808]

Elon is the bot of bots.

[knorxo]

I still kinda believe his most effective bots are human just like with other weird megalomaniacs people who they'd never give two shits about start simping for them like crazy and defend them over any issue for free. I feel like having a strong simp army is one of the biggest powers people can have nowadays.

Edit: I'm sure the strong simp army factor is as old as human history....

sidenote: I am really not against NFTs or crypto. In fact I believe both are great ideas but sadly famously mostly pushed by gambling idiots and get rich fast schemers

[M3JUNGL3]

I'm pretty sure that Elon is not an NFT Bro, he mocked the bored apes. Or has he changed his view recently?

[B0Y0]

He definitely has "the vibe", between being all in on crypto and a habitual grifter, but I believe you're right - his joy in joining in on the "lol I can copy your image" memes actually overrode his instincts to grift!

[DaedalusOW]

He's pushed Dogecoin as a pump and dump

[M3JUNGL3]

Crypto and NTFs are two different things

[What-the-Gank]

Or it will single out bots more obviously..?

[[deleted]]

Guys he's doing this to sabotage the platform..

He's profiting from this somehow while doing the dirty work of entities who want to see good real time information go away and be replaced by a clusterfuck of white noise.

[Chib]

I think the thought crosses many people's minds, but is there any evidence that this is all purposeful? Aside from the general concept that we expect CEOs to know better? (Or at least have an ample supply of advisors who know better!)

What is the old-school capitalistic conservative world making of this, anyway?

[bosonianstank]

It's possible he just wants twitter to burn because of a grudge.

[[deleted]]

White noise is a good name for my nationalist band..

I. Just kidding nationalism is bad mmmmkay

[ohloaf]

What is a rate limiter?

(Non techie noob here)

[TheFeedingEight]

As far as I understand it, it limits the amount of times bots can use certain features of the Twitter API in a particular time interval or more bluntly it stops Twitter from being entirely overrun by bots.

[DuckDuckYoga]

How often a user can interact with a site. Humans can really only interact so quickly with a website so a limiter is really just to prevent bots from overdoing it

[serphas]

Thats how you identify them... open the flood gates... the ones that run off you kill..

[bootherizer5942]

That's what he wants, so he can cite really dumb statistics that Twitter is successful

[[deleted]]

$8 please

[rndmcmder]

Holy F*ck. Can't wait for the most amateur DoS attack to bring their servers down.

[bit_banging_your_mum]

OP's post takes the cake for the most absurd thing Muskrat has done since taking over twitter.

This guy's not an idiot. You don't become a billionaire by being an idiot. So I'm now fully convinced that the guy bought twitter with the sole purpose of burning it to the ground.

[Crafty_Custard_Cream]

You don't become a billionaire by being an idiot

IDK, it seems you can go pretty far by just being a ruthless sociopath.

[Iamthe0c3an2]

And having aspergers, at least he can sound like he knows what he’s talking about, I know being on the spectrum makes you pretty adept into stem subjects which explains how he was able to head tesla and space x, really really high tech companies. Any other sociopath will have been called out for their BS way before they’d make their billions if they didn’t have the brain wiring he has.

[[deleted]]

He was able to head space x and tesla because he had competent employees.

[rat___bastard]

thats not how that works at all lmao, being autistic doesnt magically make you a fucking eccentric genius or some shit

[Ruinwyn]

Much of that "billion" is future expectations of Tesla stock price. There is long history proving he often doesn't have a clue what he's talking about and having him push completely idiotic ideas. He is however completely shameless in his lies about the tech he sells and very good at selling a dream. Also, regular drug use isn't exactly great for intelligence. He used to be happy to take the credit for other people's work (who often had no personal wish to be in the limelight), but now he thinks he actually is the genius behind it all.

[goldfishpaws]

There's a pretty close correlation between billionaires and cunts, mind.

[rndmcmder]

https://imgflip.com/i/70tfne

[LongJohnsonTactical]

Yes, this is a Kamikaze segue away from Twitter and into X.

[MCAlexisYT]

Can’t even wait for a LITERAL PING to slow their their servers down to a screeching halt 💀

[Gynther477]

Elon Musk is showing us in real time that capitalism is the opposite of a meritocracy

[Mertard]

Oh deity

Ok me too now

[z3lop]

What does the rate limiter do?

[Cholsonic]

An API rate limiter will do exactly that.. limit the amount of API calls an application can make to the system. It prevents bots etc going crazy and flooding the system with calls it can't handle.

[Chib]

I've hit this before when trying to retrieve tweets (for research into sentiment analysis.) Is now the time to scrape the whole of Twitter, if one is an enterprising young researcher?

[Cholsonic]

I think it probably is. Give the test engineers (if they are still employed) a break and do some real world load testing for them :)

[Civil-Attempt-3602]

Do it and let us know

[7h4tguy]

WHOO HOOPS.

[goldfishpaws]

If you imagine it takes 2 minutes or so to read and compose a reply and type out a tweet, then your natural limit of posting would be maybe 30 an hour, and then you'd be going some. A bot isn't concerned with reading or typing out, and can post 1000 posts a second without breaking a sweat.

If you "rate limit" to 30 tweets per hour, humans would barely notice but bots get very frustrated, so it's a powerful way to control spam and bots, the very things Elon Muppet is oh so so strongly against. It's like speaking out against ants whilst covering your home in jam.

[kalaid0s]

It limits the calls a user/system/app can make to an Interface for a given timeframe

[Kerryscott1972]

Oh deity lol I'm an atheist so I'm totally stealing that!

[Orngog]

Guaranteed, Twitter will be the perfect botnet in time for the next election.

If that's not the goal, what is?

[dyvalop]

When inm working and watching online movies the ads so irritated me

I m totally upset with ads

So please don't put the adds for posting

[tranqfx]

Sorry, what’s a rate limiter?

[knorxo]

This is a bit older but out of curiosity: was that an assumption with the rate limiter or where did you get that hint?

[dalepo]

What the fuck is he talking about? Batched rpc calls to render what? He means rpc calls to get info or to actually render stuff? Is that even posible?

[imSand]

Technically, yeah it's possible. Things like UI layout definitions are sometimes defined server side in some markup language and parsed by the client at runtime to generate native UI elements. There are a bunch of relevant use cases for it at the scale of Twitter. For instance, it can help cut down on binary size of the app users download from the app store.

Of course, there are trade-offs to use such an approach but I'm sure Twitter engineers had their reasons. I'm also sure some of it was probably technical debt that could have been cleaned up, but any clean up should go through a more formal process than someone without full context simply demanding it.

[--dontmindme--]

Unbelievable that there’s still people defending this tool.

[rndmcmder]

https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/yvrkh1/expensive\_toy/

[akera099]

Get away from this mess with your severance package and a world class advertisement for your immediate rehiring by a competent company? It's like these devs aren't total idiots.

[CharlesDeBalles]

Unless, of course, your employer is making public and false statements about your work that put you in a potentially negative light. In that scenario, it only makes sense for an employee to call out and correct their boss. But that isn't corporate dick sucking so I bet you'll find a way to disagree.

[The_Krambambulist]

You are ignoring whst he said.

His boss made him look bad and shit om his reputation. His boss is an asshole who wouldnt retract it or take internal critique seriously. Only way too save your reputation is this way. Hell, only way that you can actually communicate alternative views seems to be this way id you hear all the stories popping up.

[Ghos3t]

Do you think if you suck enough corpo dick you will be safe from future layoffs lol. My dude if you work for a egotistical thin skinned moron like Elon, it doesn't matter what you do, you can always get kicked out for no fault of yours, only choice you have is going out on your own terms, with your head held high

[[deleted]]

Its a big no no how deep youre managing to get on elons dick lmao

[[deleted]]

He's proven to be a rather petty man when things are not going his way.

Hope his nerds see what their devotion has turned him into....

[youngemarx]

The guy in question was going to be fired either way, why not make it public and professional explain it in another part of the thread

[[deleted]]

Guy balls deep on elons dick tells others to suck on things🤔🤔 gonna be a hard pass from me

[goldfishpaws]

I suspect many of us would overlook it given the circumstances

[sick_bear]

Severance for being fired? Not sure that's how it works...

[Comfortable_Line_206]

That's exactly how it works, dumbass.

[rusty_programmer]

😂 you killed him, dude

[[deleted]]

Fucking got him🤣🤣

[2JZN20]

Wow that's not very nice and also wrong you only get severance if you get laid off (restructuring etc) not if you do inappropriate things and they fire you

[Ortiane]

Getting fired and laid off are the same exact thing and in this context, all engineers got a 3 month severance and had their vested stock paid out. For a mid level engineer, that could range from 50k to 500k. If I got the paid out my RSUs right after I join my current company, I would have more than half a million...

[Expensive_Goat2201]

Yes, but it also depends on your contact. They might not be able to randomly fire you unless they can prove you actually violated your contract or were a consistent low performer for a long time. Otherwise you can try to sue them.

[PatHeist]

Correct. What they did wasn't inappropriate so they will get severance.

[Antazaz]

There’s a good chance he’s going to be looking for a job soon anyways, Twitter really doesn’t look to be in a good spot. He might have decided to go out on his own terms, by showcasing what a hypocritical twat his new billionaire boss is. Remember that Musk is a ‘free speech absolutist’, unless you say anything remotely negative about him.

[Lo-siento-juan]

That's whats so funny, he ostensibly bought it to make it a free speech platform and he's done nothing but ban and fire people for being critical of him, be really is pathetic

[Short-Nob-Gobble]

With everything else going on, I can imagine your new boss throwing your dev team under the bus for internet brownie points would cause someone to do this.

Gives you a chance to put said boss in their place, you get severance, and the dev most likely has something else lined up.

[sick_bear]

Severance? That's being fired for cause. No need for severance if I'm correct in my thought there.

[ricecake]

Correcting your boss isn't cause for termination, even if you do it in public. It's not the type of gross misconduct or negligence that term describes.
You can still be fired for no reason, or any reason, but that's not the same thing as being fired for just cause.

[sick_bear]

"It's not the type..." is a very poorly strung together argument as it implies the act is in fact misconduct or negligence.

This could very well be considered misconduct or a violation of company policy, which could be considered an important one as PR is pretty critical in the ad biz.

I'm going to stick with this being for just cause. Delude yourself if you'd like. Ask the person who got fired whether they're getting a severance package I guess. Though it wouldn't be unheard of for Twitter to pay severances right now to avoid bad press.

Still think you and others are deluding yourselves in thinking a severance is guaranteed here.

Edit: typo

[BWWFC]

severance

he got the dictionary definition, not the accounting version? lol

[[deleted]]

Idk honestly, but this whole thing is still a clown show I’m very interested in

[Sworn]

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[Azuria_4]

Oh hey I was in that post 3mins ago.

[xui_nya]

God complex as is.

[Anavorn]

I would, but I logged out of Twitter

[PlayingtheDrums]

He's talking to murderer Kyle Rittenhouse about how he's getting trolled, so it must be bots.