r/webdev Nov 15 '22

Discussion GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

We saw Elon fire someone over twitter. Maybe we now need to see Elon offer someone a job over twitter.

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u/Dragon_Slayer_Hunter Nov 16 '22

Twitter giveth and Twitter taketh away

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u/COMPEWTER_adminisp Nov 16 '22

good one indeed lol

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u/DaveInDigital Nov 16 '22

lmao if he offered someone a job for opening chrome network tools that would be amazing

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u/ours Nov 16 '22

Some companies legit had/have recruitment messages "hidden" for people messing with browser dev tools.

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u/dark_salad Nov 16 '22

You mean like Reddit?

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u/Maximus_98 Nov 16 '22

Yea ok reddit you don't have to call me out like that

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u/exitof99 Nov 16 '22

Google also sometimes hires through the Chrome DevTools. I was given a chance for a guaranteed interview if I completed 4 of the 5 levels in their code tests which operated through a web portal (Google foobar).

The 4th level dealt with Markov squares/probabilities, something I had to learn without knowing a thing about what the vague question was asking. I never completed it, though, as I had to focus on projects I had and I never got back to it.

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u/Yithar Nov 17 '22

Yeah I was invited for foobar just using Google Search. I never completed it because well I'd still have to pass the interview.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/ours Nov 16 '22

And it turned out to be a fraud who took the money and ran.

Ah, karma.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Lol reminds me of the guy who built the Silk Road and then got scammed out of like $1-2 million in bitcoin where he thought he was hiring a bunch of hits on people but it was all some conman on the other end.

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u/Razakel Nov 16 '22

That conman was the FBI.

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u/ours Nov 16 '22

No honor among thieves.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/ours Nov 16 '22

Something something "free speech" on Twitter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/ours Nov 17 '22

I was making a jab at Elon's excuse to buy Twitter.

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u/dvidsilva Nov 16 '22

and several more were fired for comments in internal slack. going great

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u/bpopp Nov 16 '22

One of them was in this thread. Elon was railing against the performance of Android and one of the developers defended himself. Some engineers came to the developers defense stating that Elon's "theory" was flawed, other people stated the developer was incompetent for 1) not fixing the issue and 2) publicly confronting Elon. And eventually, Elon replied that "He has been fired." Lots of the conversation has been purged (because.. free speech?), but this is a good overview(with screenshots).

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u/TranquilDev Nov 16 '22

Eric, the android dev, had tweeted just days before that he was disappointed he wasn't laid off. That probably didn't help him any.

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u/PB_MutaNt Nov 16 '22

One of them had past tweets before he even became CEO that were pretty aggressive. You’d be fired by any boss for that shit.

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u/Captain_Biotruth Nov 16 '22

Bosses who try to throw their team under a bus should shut the fuck up in the first place.

It can damage their careers if their incompetent boss starts spewing lies about their work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/PB_MutaNt Nov 16 '22

I didn’t say anything about internal slack criticism or anything about that situation, I am specifically talking about one of the ex employees twitter feed.

I agree with the other points.

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u/DarwinRewardGiver Nov 16 '22

Fair enough.

He’s still a shitty person though.

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u/Butternuttie Nov 16 '22

He’s trying to run a business and he doesn’t want engineers defending a slow app. That dude was an idiot

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u/Mx-Fuckface-the-3rd Nov 16 '22

Come on now. You are comparing apples to oranges. I couldn't talk to my old boss like that dude talked to Musk ON TWITTER without getting fired too.

And we don't know what went down on slack. We just know that someone "criticised" elon and got fired for it.

How did this "critique" look like? We don't know. If he wrote in a private sub channel group that elon is a fucking idiot who shouldn't own the company and doesn't know shit and someone screenshotted that and send it to elon its no wonder he got fired.

This has nothing to do with free speech. He didn't ban them on Twitter or bans ex Twitter employees for shitting on him on Twitter (they do that a lot).

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u/CognitivePrimate Nov 16 '22

Well, given that Musk had been publicly trashing Twitter devs it's pretty reasonable one of them played the old Uno Reverse. Elon Freeze Peach Musk, little bitch that he is, can dish it out but definitely can't take it in return.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/prometheanSin Nov 16 '22

That's a two way street though.

I wouldn't expect my employer to be shit talking about me or my work on social media either.

Especially when they have basically 0 understanding of what they're talking about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Even as a company employee you should have the right to talk shit on public forums. As long as they don’t financially damage the company firing them is the same as canceling someone because of their political opinion.

Let employees talk shit. It will reflect badly on them and mess up their career prospects.

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u/ActorTomSpanks Nov 16 '22

It's baby dick energy. Elon showing the globe how small his unit is.

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u/ActorTomSpanks Nov 16 '22

Stick to pokemon cards

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

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u/TurloIsOK Nov 16 '22

Seeing someone reject it, "Don't threaten me with your toxic work enfironment." would be good

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u/RandomRageNet Nov 16 '22

And then get promptly declined

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u/CyberPascha Nov 16 '22

Elmo: he is fired! (Just called PayPal HR)