BulgarianIdiot

"An excuse to go back to Twitter" as if they're looking for excuse because they want to be on Twitter so much. Dude, you have no idea. Recession is coming, Twitter is unstable and overrun by trolls. Big brands don't care about Twitter, they just don't want to be target of Elon's ire and his cohort of fans. The only direction large advertisers will be moving with regards to Twitter from now on... is away.

But you'll probably see plenty of "follow my account for feet pics" ads and so on smaller advertisers pick up the slack. Hey maybe that's an undiscovered gold mine.

What's boring precisely? This is non-stop circus. I constantly run out of popcorn.

Earth means nothing. Just a tiny planet in a vacuum. Humans are worthless and what happens to them means nothing.

We've already reached a point where medicine, in some cases, is doing more damage than good. Plastic surgery is clear example of this.

Followed by surgery like gastric bypass which is largely ineffective long-term, but of course they don't track it long term. People return to old habits, and the body tries to adapt, but now with newly crippled digestive system.

"Everything in moderation" is something we've not learned yet, as a culture.

- "Bad smell" immediately invokes disgusting sensory experiences. It's intended to be ambiguous but it's not used this way.

- "Anti-pattern" is also ambiguous, because patterns have some bad uses, and anti-patterns have some good uses.

- And "Considered harmful" is also ambiguous. To consider something harmful is not the same as it being harmful, you're just considering it.

These phrases are used automatically and intend to sound authoritative about something being bad, period, despite their historical nuance and ambiguity. And frankly they're all disgusting and annoying at this point.

They show the author is more into clichés and clickbait, than substance.

DAU was at an all time high immediately after Elon's takeover due to the circus. It's not at an all time high right now. Notice he stopped bragging about DAU few months ago. It's actually 10% less than a year ago. I know I'm completely wasting my effort on you, so I'm done with this thread.

She defended Elon during some conference she was with him on stage. And she's done ad strategy at NBCU. It's that simple.

Elon needs someone sucking up to him, and who can attract more ads. He has a 3 billion hole to fill.

She'll fail.

His interest in taking the blame that Twitter is still losing about 10 million USD every day of its existence, is indeed rapidly waning, you might say.

He's interesting a CEO to attract ad revenue, and take the blame if they fail. And they'll fail because the gap is too big at this point.

Kinda weird that at this level it's still the same old game. One user makes the content (Tumblr), another copies and gets viral (Twitter).

Normal people would retweet someone's content or quote it, unless they want to change it in some way that requires posting it as their own. Or moving it to a media where it can't be directly shared with attribution.

That's what normal people do. This is, in fact, why when Musk posts a meme, that tweet gets thousand of retweets. Ever thought about how if "stolen meme" was an odd concept, then the retweet count would be 0?

You forgot to say words.

What the media said is irrelevant.

Those who have experience with such projects predicted very accurately what will happen.

1) The basic service will mostly stay up one way or another. Because otherwise all is lost.

2) Many auxiliary services will start degrading or going away. For example, yesterday search autocomplete was disabled after it started autocompleting everything in obscene ways.

3) We'll experience more frequent outages and glitches (and we do).

4) His velocity will grind to a halt. Meaning, he can't ship new features at depth, only superficial crap, and things that were started long before he bought the company.

He's also deeply in red right now, after losing over half his ad revenue and the 600k or so blue checkmark subscribers are netting him about 1% of what he lost in ads.

I think one of the Twitter execs is the CEO. This entire exercise is to allow him to distance himself from the dumpster he set on fire.

It's not him kidding. Also his "humor", stolen memes aside, 9/10 times only used to mask unexpected turn of events behind the scenes (such as being sued about something he said, or something turning out really, really wrong).

Well, "intelligent" has always been a murky term, and as tech is rapidly surpassing us in every way, it'll become even more meaningless as times goes on.

Every mistake he's made at Twitter, he's made before, many times. But at Twitter, he did in a more public, spectacular way. In some cases at higher scale. From everything I've seen from him at this point - he won't learn. Plus, he's a 50+ year old man. Can't teach old dogs new tricks.

Symfony made many architectural mistakes early on, including with the way they used to do injection and so on, but to their credit, the community seems curious and strives for quality, so over time it has become a very interesting project. I stay away from frameworks, in general, but the Symfony components are excellent.

Are they? The article doesn't support its premise.

They might have bought Twitter for $44b and now deeply in debt, looking for things to ship that make subscription attractive. But I can't think of other reasons.

Sure, well users started doing the "RT: ...." thing, which prompted Twitter to add the feature.

I'm tired of these "game over" clickbait claims.

Just few hours ago another one was "ChatGPT with browsing. Game over for Google?"

It should be very clear to everyone that the games are merely starting here. No one has a monopoly on AI. No one. NO ONE.

If you use facades there's no fixing that unless you reconstruct and reweave every component in your application to pass relevant context in and out, instead of lazily reaching into globals for it.

What you call "full DI" in Laravel is still globals in disguise, because there's a single global container.

Most defense of Laravel comes from people who have no idea how to write a good app. And unfortunately, due to bad frameworks, the number of those people is multiplying. I blame Spring and RoR. So much pain came from them. Laravel is just a pale copy.

My eyes.

I'm here in the comments just to start a war about Tailwind.

When you say how they can "legally" replicate it, let's first acknowledge that 99.99% of what we do, our work, is replicating something, reflecting, transforming, combining, sure, but mostly replicating things.

You think the similarity is notable, broadly. Fine, but let's break it down in legal sense. What kind of claim can you have here? Clearly, the icons are not copied, they're just similar. The layout is not unique either, millions of sites have one like it.

The round blue button and other unnecessary similarities seem to rub it on the nose "hey I'm Twitter" but I don't think it's illegal, unless Twitter has a design patent for their UI.

So if it's not copyright and not patent, what would it be? Not trademark, either, as it says "post" not "tweet".

Of course we can say "they have retweets" and so on. But those were concepts invented not by Twitter but their users, in the open-source, no-ownership way. Twitter can't claim to say they invented post sharing. They just can't.

Their only moat is the network effects of their userbase. I see no technical or design moat.

Keep in mind Android copied iOS wholesale. It copied iPhone wholesale. All the things. All of them. Apple tries to sue about some trivial aspect they had a design patent on, and lost.

Sometimes you see they copied, and it's blatant, but upon closer look, there's nothing illegal. And maybe it's for the best. Nowadays Android copies iOS, iOS copies Android. You could say it's a beneficial relationship of copying.

But if Twitter dies because someone copied it... it means Twitter had nothing more to contribute. Apple has a lot more to contribute, this is why they're doing fine, despite everyone copying them.

He lost over 4 billion in ad cheddar / year, and this check scheme gained him about 50 million cheddar / year.

He's net about -3.95 billion in cheddar.

Needs way more cheddar.

I guess I wasn't clear enough? I said "it makes complex tasks SEEM". My point being, they SEEM SIMPLE in a DEMO. But in real application it quickly turns into a quagmire, due to the problems I already listed.

Oh look, you even say so in your own comment: "the specific code sample shown on this page shouldn't be treated as a practical example".

So... you're saying the page makes it SEEM simpler than IT IS, hmm? Is this what you were asking me about "why is it bad"? You don't think parlor tricks in demo code is a bad thing?

So what are you even objecting to here? I said something bad about Laravel, and you use Laravel, so you have to go on the offensive out of loyalty? I don't know why people need to identify so religiously with their tools. If we start picking apart this demo code, you'll probably admit that every line contains an anti-pattern you'd avoid in a real project of more than a modest size.

So what is this demo demoing then? It's essentially misleading people about what it takes to write a good app. If we'll go by simple demos alone, PHP needs no framework at all for a good demo:

    <?php
    echo "5 + 5 is: " . (5 + 5);

Boom, everyone understands this, now you can write your own Google!

This is why RoR declined and it's why PHP with Laravel and WordPress as their poster boys is declining.

PHP itself is no longer as terrible as it used to be, although all the good people seem to have left the internals. But the frameworks people use on it are terrible, incompetent and aggressively misleading people into bad practices for the sole purpose of marketing to newcomers.

The problem is this page advertises Laravel, not PHP. Ruby on Rails has many similar "demo worthy" snippets that make complex tasks seem readable and intuitive to the layman. Laravel and Ruby on Rails have something else in common: due to the focus on these "natural" interfaces, they compromise in every other way. Architecture, performance, testability and so on and so on.

For those who know PHP, this code is full of singletons masquerading as static classes (which Laravel incorrectly calls "Facades") which mean no isolation and clear flow of dependencies in your code. In a nutshell, every line of code you write this way comes loaded with a pound of irreducible, unfixable tech debt. Enjoy.

Sounds like a threat TBH

What nuance do I not get, buddy, you're literally quoting me saying it. Yes, if the stock doesn't go up, you get nothing. I said this myself. This is an incentive for employees to work for increasing the value of the company.

What is it you think I'm missing here at all? You're pissed employees get nothing if stock doesn't go up? You think I'm missing that? No, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF OPTIONS.

Plato turned out right. I'm not extremely old and I still remember time before the Internet, when to know something, you had to look it up, which took ages, so you simply had to know it. Yourself.

We measured intelligence by the things you knew. We still have shows with questions based on this concept. This concept no longer makes sense in the modern world. But it used to.

Writing is a crutch, Internet even more so, and AI even more so. Eventually you can build the entire thinker out of those crutches and you need no humans anymore.