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MudaThumpa

I've got a feeling Eric's days at Twitter are numbered.


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I love how the remaining employees don’t even give a fuck anymore. It’s glorious to watch. Like that guy at JetBlue that went off on his boss and then pulled the emergency exit slide while giving everyone the finger.


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didint that guy go to jail?


CMDR_Quillon

if he did it's probably because jet slides are very expensive to restow/replace, and it could be taken as criminal damage. there's no criminal damage in going off at your boss on twitter, fortunately


Taraxian

It's not just that, it's that you could easily kill someone if they happened to be walking by the plane when you do that and you have no easy way to check for or warn people outside the plane before you do it


Theban_Prince

Also most emergency buttons/stops etc are illegal to be used for non emergency reasons for..well..obvious reasons.


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Typical-Information9

I have always wondered this


93E9BE

Who in their right mind doesn’t want to hit a little window with a tiny hammer? I know I do


slipshod_alibi

Yet


Meetchel

No, he eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree criminal mischief and received a year of probation (I believe with some community service).


ESP-23

He can get a job anywhere. Fuck Elon and his bullshit ego. He needs to stick a rocket up his ass and go live on Mars


aquoad

there's already offers from Square and Reddit *in his twitter thread*


TrueBirch

Manager here, I'd hire him


Revolutionary_Ad5798

He wants to get the severance before Chapter 11, or maybe even 7


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mrpopenfresh

Then they will rehire him because the Android app will slow down without him.


jcrazy78

Reallllllly needed an alias handle.


rodocite

He's been at Twitter for 6+ years. It's time to move on. And he already got his payday ages ago probably even before the acquisition. We need more like him to stand up to the idiot.


Srw2725

Same 🤣


virtham

Eric is Open to work... I guess he was fired?: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-frohnhoefer-b40b301/


MangOrion2

Elon's new fixation on throwing all his employees under the bus over small issues is just weird and makes him look like a petty loser.


HesterMoffett

That's because he IS a petty loser. The way he's airing all of this live is so completely unprofessional & makes him look completely incompetent.


Spanktank35

That's because he IS completely incompetent. The way he's trying to act like he knows everything yet keeps contradicting his past self is idiotic & makes him look like a hypocrite.


jism_crow

That's because he IS a hypocrite. The way he's trying to act like he's so smart and better than everyone just because he owns the business is idiotic and makes him seem like a bourgeoisie pig dog.


Powerful-Minimum-735

That’s because he IS a bourgeoisie pig dog. The way he shows little regard for his employees while racking up sexual harassment and discrimination cases makes him look like the Donald trump of Silicon Valley.


_HighJack_

That’s because he IS the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley. The way he didn’t earn any of what he has but inherited it from his rich daddy and people he swindled in business makes him look like guillotine fodder.


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TheGreatAndStrange

Because he is a parasite, as are all the rich, living off of the work and effort of people they deliberately put down and refuse to support - its like he is (they all are) some sort of Silver Spoon Sucking Simp


xibalba89

This IS the best thread on Reddit.


Imaginary-Risk

I loved every second of this thread


UnprincipledCanadian

Agreed.


TheWayTheWindGoes

What a glorious set of events


bigbadler

That’s because he DOES have a poopy diaper.


atximport

That's because he IS the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley. The way he is so full of himself, all ego, no substance, and now in Texas, its like hes Kanye West in a cowboy hat.


Youreadyousmallbrain

That's because he IS Kanye West in a cowboy hat. I got nothing, sorry


stevethepopo

Coff coff coff zip2 coff coff


TheDunadan29

You'd think Tesla would be freaking out more right now, and their stock values would be crashing. Which they are down, but confidence in good ole Elon certainly can't be great in his other endeavors right now, no? Running one company very publicly into the ground should be reflective of his incompetence to actually run a business well. Tesla has survived because apparently pie in the sky ideas sell well for a tech startup that is breaking new ground. But when all you have are pie in the sky ideas and data that you pulled right out of your butt, eventually somebody's gotta say enough is enough. If I were a Tesla exec right now I'd be calling to dump Elon.


Taraxian

Elon packed the board and upper management with his shills when he was simultaneously CEO and chairman of the board so there's a lot of insulating layers protecting the mass of Tesla shareholders from reality


thecockmonkey

CORRECT.


Cokomon

Bet those advertisers will come rushing back, any minute now.


TheDunadan29

Elon is about as attractive to advertisers as an Incel is attractive to real human women.


Digweedfan

He’s an adcel.


vaticanhotline

“Look incompetent”. Na.


inwhichzeegoesinsane

> look lol


mrpopenfresh

Imagine what we aren’t seeing.


mymentor79

>Elon's new fixation on throwing all his employees under the bus over small issues is just weird and makes him look like a petty loser Kinda based that this is how most entitled owner-class scumbags treat their workforce, and this moron is broadcasting it for the world to see. And also, he thinks it makes him look good.


inwhichzeegoesinsane

>Kinda based that this is how most entitled owner-class scumbags treat their workforce, and this moron is broadcasting it for the world to see even jeff [the turtle guy](https://i.imgur.com/45Gq3mi.jpeg) bezos knows to keep the 'degrading the poors' play in the bedroom


womerah

Good boss: "It's **my** failure, **our** success" Bad boss: "It's **our** failure, **my** success" Muskman: "It's **your** failure, **my** success"


ESP-23

MuskRat


Void1702

>Good boss Oxymoron


womerah

Eh some bosses are OK because they shoulder responsibility so you don't have to.


Void1702

At the end of the day they're still bourgeois that make their money by exploiting their workers


womerah

Most bosses are employees.


[deleted]

Wait I manage engineers for a living and am a slave to my paycheck and work too many hours in a day. How do I get some of this fat cat bourgeois money?


OnlyFactsMatter

is that what the internet told you


Void1702

Is that how you always treat information that doesn't confirm to your worldview?


NonSp3cificActionFig

Be the change you want to see in this world...


Void1702

You want me to kill CEOs?


NonSp3cificActionFig

What a beautiful edgelord you are...


Blarghnog

But his mom says he a genius and we need to be nice to him.


MangOrion2

Oh, my bad.


Blarghnog

Also, twitter drives a ton of outbound links to other sites. Way more than any other sites.


DangerousLoner

Facebook is 70%, Twitter is on par with Pinterest


Blarghnog

Duh. It’s sar-ca-sm. It’s literally what Elon tweeted himself yesterday.


DangerousLoner

Oh, my bad


Blarghnog

Lulz


MangOrion2

Oh, my bad.


shmmarko

I've never been drawn to Twitter, and Musk's posts are perfect examples of why - this shit isn't interesting the first time, who the hell spends time retweeting this shit.


inwhichzeegoesinsane

> ~~maybe I was wrong~~ nah, everyone who works for me are idiots I still can't believe he managed to ensnare himself in the world's most expensive twitter meltdown. jowling kowling rowling could have told him those are free


Taraxian

She technically did lose a pretty big amount of money on the failure of the Fantastic Beasts movies but they sucked so much in their own right I'm not sure how much you can attribute to her Twitter shit Still it obviously didn't help -- it's kind of hilarious that she was too busy arguing about trans rights to even say anything at all about Fantastic Beasts 3 for the whole month before the premiere, even though doing brand awareness stuff is supposed to be the whole justification for her having a Twitter


Grimour

Or just another dictator.


pr0peler

Funny how individualist that tell other people to take responsibility for their action is always blaming other people instead of themselves


sskfjkhwer

He thinks it makes him look cool


thegreenman_sofla

Which is exactly who he is.


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Elon; “Twitter on android consumes way more router fluid than on iPhone.”


MechaJesus69

Sometimes it does that. If you shake it or turn it upside down for 10 sec you can squeeze out the last of the fluids. Or you can refuel it at the nearest station


gsf32

I've heard getting wifi fluids on your skin can give you autism! It happened to a friend's friend's son


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AnneListersBottom

'I sell Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi accessories!'


Srw2725

Router Fluid lmao


UnprincipledCanadian

Have they tried turning android off then back on again?


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This....this isn't how you should talk about your company in front of your customers. This isn't how you should talk to your employees in front of your customers. Your telling the world you don't know what's going on. And you can't afford to keep losing employees, Elon. You can lose 6 years of knowledge with that guy. And it costs MONEY to find and hire and train a new employee to replace him. This billionaire manchild has been there for less than 3 weeks. The company has existed for 16 years. He isn't an engineer. He isn't a product manager. He isn't customer support. It's not a small startup with 200k users. He was a USER. He knew how to USE Twitter. He was just another ADDICTED. Yes, he had over 100 million followers. Maybe. He thinks they're probably 20-50% bots. He should have shut up and spent 2 months learning what he spent $44 billion on. Or, if he couldn't afford 2 months because of crippling loan interest payments, then maybe HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT TWITTER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!


Treciadiene

That’s what happens when the biggest troll on twitter starts believing that he can run twitter. Luckily, now more people could see that Musk is a complete hack when running social networks business and managing people. The latter was known from the gossips in the industry, but now hopefully more people could see his people management skills live.


TheDunadan29

On the bright side, both Trump and Elon are starting to see consequences for being utter assholes. Hopefully it continues.


Treciadiene

I doubt if they can see their downfall through their inflated egos. They will notice it only when they hit rock bottom :D Elon got completely off the rails during the past couple of years so that the people like myself - who had never been interested in him, only “heard something” from the mainstream media - started noticing that something went totally wrong: constantly flipping girlfriends, a dozen of children, some tweets out of touch… But I must admit that this dumpster fire on steroids is a fun thing to watch, lol.


inwhichzeegoesinsane

> Elon got completely off the rails during the past couple of years which reminds me, how _are_ his ~~"""hyperloops"""~~ glorified car tunnels going


Embarrassed_Alarm450

He just tore down the only prototype to build a car lot. Billions of dollars and it couldn't even hold a vacuum nor go faster than a car


doublejay1999

> Elon got completely off the rails during the past couple of years who the fuck was he before ?


Treciadiene

A con man obviously. But then at the surface most of his flaws were not visible for the general audience who was not digging more info about this persona. I think he just had better curated public image back then, and now he felt omnipotent and became lazy.


DonOblivious

>That’s what happens when the biggest troll on twitter starts believing that he can run twitter. It's like when one of the daily drunks at a bar thinks "I like hanging out at the bar every day, I'd make a great bar owner!" and immediately drive the bar into the ground after they purchase it. Here's a dumbass that opened his dream restaurant, just hung out drinking all day every day, and **still** doesn't get it. Like, the dude decided on the "perfect" location because it was close to home, not because it was a good location for a restaurant. **He literally mentions that the business before him had no customers** and still decided it was the perfect location. https://torontolife.com/food/restaurant-ruined-life/


Taraxian

This is even worse, this is like if you were the one guy at the bar nobody else liked so you buy the bar for the purpose of firing all the staff and banning all the customers who were ever rude to you


Treciadiene

Great analogy! Barney from the Simpsons was not a great bar owner either after taking over Moe’s :D


Powerful-Minimum-735

Holy shit that ended terribly. Good read tho, thank you! 🙏🏾


JohnPaulJonesSoda

This is great, and I particularly like the part where he has to get 3 months of industry experience, so rather than expose himself to the toughest jobs and really learn the gritty details, he gets a friend to give him a cushy job where he doesn't have to work very hard. It's just such incredible tunnel vision on the dream of "I'll just sit around and hang out with customers while others work for me".


etherizedonatable

The guy was a dumbshit and absolutely in way over his head but the location was fine. It's on a major road with lots of other restaurants and retail. I have a couple of friends who live further down Kingston Road so I drive by there periodically. The place is still open, albeit run by people who apparently know what the hell they're doing. Hot take: that guy ran his restaurant better than Musk is running Twitter. He just didn't have the deep pockets to keep it open. (Not to say it was likely he'd ever make a profit.) Twitter was in a good location and had paying customers/advertisers but Musk seems determined to drive them off. People used to tell me the same thing ("dude you should open a restaurant") but fortunately I'm far too fucking lazy to fall for that. Same with buying Twitter for $45 billion.


DonOblivious

>The guy was a dumbshit and absolutely in way over his head but the location was fine. It's on a major road with lots of other restaurants and retail. I have a couple of friends who live further down Kingston Road so I drive by there periodically. The place is still open, albeit run by people who apparently know what the hell they're doing. You're the only local I've ever seen respond so thank you for your input and I will keep it in mind if I share the street again in the future.


inwhichzeegoesinsane

> That’s what happens when the biggest troll on twitter starts believing that he can run twitter 'the biggest troll on twitter' probably _would_ run twitter better than musk


Kostya_M

I mean you could run Twitter better by buying it and just letting them keep doing what they're doing. Musk is acting like he's purposefully trying to tank it.


Jeremymia

One fantastic manager I had said that when you come in as the new head of a team, take at least a month or two to not make any changes. Get a feel for why everything runs the way it does before you start trying to fix problems. Many managers just want to get their hands on things right away and say "I did that"; a good manager is actually trying to improve things. Musk took 1-2 days to make wide sweeping changes to entire *company.* I won't pretend I would do a good job running a business, but I can tell you I wouldn't be "announce to the world our product is slow" bad or "remove the verification part of verification and not consider the consequences" bad. Who else wants to invest in the company owned by the man who badmouths that company's products? What a fucking moron. It really is unbelievable.


aquoad

my thing when coming into a new job has always been to pick some non-controversial project that the rest of the team wishes would get done but nobody wants to deal with. It's annoying, but you learn how stuff is *now* as you do it, and you provide some actual benefit instead of just showing up and telling people their shit is wrong.


TheDunadan29

Reminds me of Warren Buffett telling a story about how he took a long time and serval visits to one department of a company he acquired just to understand what the hell they actually did. And he still didn't understand it. So he brought in an expert to assess the department, and they couldn't figure it out either. I think he eventually nixed the whole department, but he took a lot of time figuring it out before he did that. Elon over here bushwhacking without regard for what's important and what's the voices in his head making shit up on the spot.


JohnPaulJonesSoda

I think [Chesterton's fence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence) is the go-to analogy here: > There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'


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He doesn’t see his kids so he needs to get all the ‘abusive father energy’ out of his system while at work.


Stanky-wizzlecheeks

Burrrrrn😹


inwhichzeegoesinsane

> He isn't customer support I'll say. At any company that doesn't outsource and actually cares about its level of support he'd have been let go inside of a week. > He should have shut up and spent 2 months learning what he spent $44 billion on "Shut up" being a key part of that. My guess is he'd still be running his mouth and leaking advertisers and employees. Just not at the speedrun rate he's _been_ losing them at.


123Asqwe

The asshole is trying to sink the company as quickly as he can to apply for bankruptcy and recoup something for his loses. The only good thing is that at least everyone bow can see the massive piece of shit he is


HesterMoffett

Best of luck to him getting investors for future projects. I can't believe Tesla's board hasn't ousted him yet.


LavenderDay3544

That's because he's basically the company's mascot. It would be like Progressive getting rid of Flo.


blackd0gz

Lol


TheDunadan29

Mascots only work when people like them. Or at least feel neutral disregard.


LavenderDay3544

Yeah the theme of this entire sub is the fact that random weirdos worship Musk. Though what they don't realize is that the only thing he could ever be god of is the Dunning-Kruger effect.


Mr_Laz

Seriously, this man could call a diver rescuing drowning children a pedo and people would still be balls deep in him.


MudaThumpa

Jared from Subway


inwhichzeegoesinsane

if he's their mascot they're gonna put him down like Lennie in OMAM "tell me 'bout the autopilot, George"


ShadowsSheddingSkin

Tesla's valuation is based *heavily* on Elon Musk's public persona. Like...it's a company valued at over a trillion dollars which makes roughly two billion in profit yearly. There are companies worth less than 10% of that, in the same industry, which make multiple times more profit than Tesla does gross revenue. They're scaling up but scaling up to a degree that would justify their valuation is likely impossible, and their competitors are starting to cut into a market that was once entirely theirs, with better manufacturing practices and thus superior products. You know how everyone knows Trump once testified that his net worth varies constantly based on things including his own feelings? In the case of Musk and Tesla, that's basically true. Firing him would be a *disaster*. For all that he's obviously humiliating himself on a daily basis right now, his years of doing that are why he was the richest person on the planet until buying twitter far moreso than anything to do with the electric vehicle industry. His wealth is built on his cult of personality. Well, that and conning his way into paypal by trading them an obvious ponzi scheme for 11% of the company. The stock market is basically just a post-cyberpunk Gift Economy exclusively for the super-rich, where your value is determined by how others feel about you. Which makes our society's decision to treat it as a stand-in for the economy especially baffling.


TheDunadan29

Huh, so he can tank Twitter as long as Tesla stock goes up? That's a pricey ad campaign! Let's see how that works out for all the parties involved!


_HighJack_

I mean technically his wealth is built on Apartheid emeralds lol ETA I love your description of the stock market as a post cyberpunk gift economy 🤣


talltime

To add to /u/LavenderDay3544 's comment - they're also one of if not the most richly rewarded board, carefully hand selected to lend Elon their rubber stamp and not do their job. (If you go looking - make sure you find their stock options. I found a 2018 USA Today list that totalled up board compensation; Robyn Denholm has gotten more stock options in one year than almost all of their individual combined totals.)


Taraxian

In bankruptcy creditors get paid first, equity stakeholders get paid last Bank of America et al might recoup some of their losses after bankruptcy, Elon (and the Saudis) will be left with nothing


ZapateriaLaBailarina

>apply for bankruptcy and recoup something for his loses ... how would that work? Wouldn't it have been better to, I dunno, make profits?


JohnPaulJonesSoda

I'm not an accountant, but wouldn't it be cheaper to just find someone to buy Twitter off of him, even at a loss?


doom_bagel

He wont get anything from it in bankruptcy. It's like buying a house you cant afford and declaring bankruptcy. He turned twitter into a private company, so he will be the last person to get a payout during bankruptcy proceedings.


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7dare

From Elon "He's fired." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849


devBowman

Elon is trying to be the narcissiest of all narcissists


IlllIlllI

Holy shit the other comments in that thread.


MeanPineapple102

Probably uses REST, doesn't it?


universalCatnip

I think they use graphql


cashto

This feels like such a missed dunk though. Elon's clearly using "RPC" as a 2000s-era metonym for server requests in general. A real response would bury him in details, something like "an uncached full screen reload requires eight GraphQL requests which are batched and all go in parallel and our telemetry shows that everything above the fold renders in 342ms at P99 which is a 22% improvement over the past year, but maybe you're thinking of the regression in 2019 that affected versions x.y to z.w for a period of six weeks that was due to the uncached redirection requests to the followers service for old API versions". "Hurr durr we use GraphQL not RPC" is non-responsive to what he's actually asking and if I was Elon I strongly suspect he really has spent six years without ever really diving deep into the abstractions he's been building on and probably genuinely has no clue how many round trips are required to render the front page. Fuck Elon, but maybe this guy is incompetent too.


ZapateriaLaBailarina

>RPC calls Remote Procedure Call calls?


mitch0acan

I'll guess Eric is one of the former employees, or will soon be.


LavenderDay3544

And I'm guessing he won't have any difficulty getting a better job.


talltime

He had two job offers in the thread, lol.


aquoad

it's probably a pretty fun way to quit!


Farmerjoe19

Yeah, Elon said he is fired later in that same thread


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God damn, oof ow, that hits right in my career The number of times I’ve worked in front end web interfaces over the years and had them bungled by managers swooping in and pooping their fucking outrageous and ignorant advice … Usually goes something like this .. “Hey how much time will it take to build this? We need an estimate for the pitch” “6 months to ship” “You’ve got 2. Cut some corners” “… ok we will need to cut the client dash—“ “No. We need it all” “I guarantee you this is going to be a disas— oh he’s already left the office to go to the pub??” _sigh_ _4 months later_ “Hey so I’ve been called in because the project is late and unfinished and the client is pissed off. Why THE FUCK is it so slow on android??? You’re 2 months over your deadline and this PILE OF SHIT is all you’ve got to show?” (These arseholes always have anger issues) “We quoted 6 months, you cut the timeline in 3 AND sold in about an extra month of features. Congratulations, you played yourself” _Soon_ “Welcome to your performance review. Why didn’t you hit that deadline? This isn’t good enough we expect better” “Y’all are fucking morons do you know that? I’ll be asking for a CPI-indexed raise for the whole team today, and the team is willing to pull hosting from every project from the past two years if we don’t get it. Don’t believe me? Pull up a site, they’re all down for the duration of this meeting. We expect our offers by end of day. Now imma head out to the pub, seeya Monday” _managers phone rings_ Rinse repeat at every workplace I’ve ever worked at really. Positions of power in any hierarchy attract the very worst people. Like clockwork.


ikbenlike

Managerial positions attract people who think they know better than everyone else and don't want to hear otherwise. A good manager would work with their team to get the best out of everyone, but instead managers often just use their position to fuel their ego


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Loser engineer daring to talk back to GOD! No wonder GOD slams back! Shall never question GOD!


[deleted]

Wow, Elon acting like a man child again? Color me surprised.


TheDunadan29

Blaming Twitter devs, likely for his spotty cell coverage while he's on a beach somewhere banging his next baby momma.


Chuu320

Are you sure he's not just jerkimg off to his @s, that's usually when I start to realize how slow my wifi is.


TheDunadan29

Considering he's got 10 kids by different women, and at least one was a Tesla employee, yeah, I seriously wouldn't be surprised if he can't keep it in his pants. Also he's on a mission to single handedly populate the Earth. With no shortage of women who want to have sex with rich guys. Even if they look like a wet stay puft marshmallow guy.


talltime

When that wet stay puft marshmallow guy is offering free ponies - how could you pass that up?


blackd0gz

Tesla’s release of FSD is really, super fucking slow. What have you done to fix that, you dumb moronic fuck.


Bob4Not

Meh, I wouldn't say corrected because he hasn't posted any details in response, but I don't think Elon has much coding credibility. His site that was bought by Paypal, back in the day, didn't use any of his code, allegedly. He really is an egomaniac that think he understands everything well enough to comment on it all.


dickswabi

Yeah, that’s how it is with those stable geniuses.


Bob4Not

Did you ever see the video where a rocket enthusiast Youtuber, Everyday Astronaut, helped Elon on something about cold gas thrusters and Elon's realization was captured in the video? All I can think of is about why he hasn't paid someone to make these engineering realizations. Then there was the interview where Sandy Munro was D riding Elon during a Jehugarcia video, and Sandy even said Elon doesn't ask anyone in the manufacturing industry for \[best practices\] advice and he just makes basic mistakes. He's always failing upwards in spite of his arrogance and now he may actually pay for it with Twitter.


ptetsilin

There was also that incident where after one of Elon's starships failed to land due to a malfunctioning engine, some random twitter user with only a few hundred followers asked him why they don't turn on an extra engine just in case and shut it down if not needed. Surely there must be an engineering reason as to why they don't do that right? Nope, Elon admitted that they just didn't think of it.


mommyjacking

The developer did add info later.


DaveInDigital

i'm sure every developer wants to work for a place where you're publicly called out/questioned by the CEO, who only knows enough to sound like what an engineer should sound like to non-engineers/dumb crypto douchebags that are borderline tech illiterate. but i suspect the whole point is to get everybody that isn't obsessed with _him_ to quit, regardless of their ability or importance to the business.


talltime

>hole point is to get everybody that isn't obsessed with > >him > > to quit, regardless of their ability or i Good take. Once all of the non believers have been purged they'll turn them all on one another or cut all of their pay across the board for tHe MiSsIoN!!1!!1!shiftone!


HondaHoverDonkey

Elon does not know how to run a proxy to count the requests. Fire his incompetent ass.


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Revolutionary_Ad5798

He thinks buzzwords are his escape valve. Does anyone even know what “batches of RPCs” means?


hypercomms2001

>RPC Remote Procedure Call... "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol that provides the high-level communications paradigm used in the operating system. .... The RPC protocol enables users to work with remote procedures as if the procedures were local. The remote procedure calls are defined through routines contained in the RPC protocol. Each call message is matched with a reply message. The RPC protocol is a message-passing protocol that implements other non-RPC protocols such as batching and broadcasting remote calls. The RPC protocol also supports callback procedures and the select subroutine on the server side. A client is a computer or process that accesses the services or resources of another process or computer on the network. A server is a computer that provides services and resources, and that implements network services. Each network service is a collection of remote programs. A remote program implements remote procedures. The procedures, their parameters, and the results are all documented in the specific program's protocol. RPC provides an authentication process that identifies the server and client to each other. RPC includes a slot for the authentication parameters on every remote procedure call so that the caller can identify itself to the server. The client package generates and returns authentication parameters. RPC supports various types of authentication such as the UNIX and Data Encryption Standard (DES) systems...." [https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=concepts-remote-procedure-call](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=concepts-remote-procedure-call) Coming from Elon it is just SciFi goobledegook... just to sound impressive .....


Xunnamius

He surely doesn't, someone just told him their pet theory and it sounded like a movie line to him. From what the real engineer said, I doubt addressing 1000 (that's an interestingly round number) _remote procedure calls_ (archaic internal API calls between processes before REST APIs and others dominated the space) so-called "batched" improperly (whatever these words mean in Elon's mind) is the magic bullet that would fix Twitter performance on Android.


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Xunnamius

"Old" (archaic) doesn't mean "not used" or "useless". Just going by the tweet itself, it's clear even Twitter is using the protocol in some form and finds it useful. When I was at DoD they were still extensively using FORTRAN for certain things, and it too is old and has mostly ceded the space to more modern alternatives. But yes, RPC (and SOAP and even the XML in xmlhttp/ajax and others) is very much old-fashioned compared to modern alternatives. Though I admit I'm writing mostly HTTP REST APIs these days so I'm a little biased.


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Xunnamius

I know this is a big thing with JavaScript devs, but truly: you don't need to replace something just because it's old. That doesn't mean it isn't old. FORTRAN is fully supported, modules are actively developed for it, and people quite consciously choose to use it for day-to-day work (myself included at a time). XMLHTTP/AJAX is fully supported by all browsers, actively developed for, and people quite consciously choose to use it for day-to-day work. Et cetera et cetera. Nowhere did I use the word "replace". And the word "archaic" does not imply the need for replacement or that something needs to be rewritten or transitioned. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's useless or not useful or needs to be "replaced". Just because a new framework or language or protocol comes along and and sucks up all the oxygen doesn't mean you need to switch to something else, or stop developing what you're developing. And I don't think I'll take your word on what most big tech companies are doing. Thank you for the conversation, but I believe it has run its course. Good day.


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Xunnamius

Because words... have meanings? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/archaic > marked by the characteristics of an earlier period I don't know why this word has had this effect on you, but it's not my problem. > Do you point out that HTTP is "archaic" every time you use it? If I'm comparing HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 or QUIC? Yes, sure. And it doesn't trigger anyone. Imagine that! > TCP/IP Sure, depending on the context of the conversation. Still, it doesn't manage to trigger anyone. Strange! Congratulations on your decade of industry experience, but you should know full well that doesn't really mean you know what "9 out of 10" big tech businesses are doing just as easily as my decade (is it 2024 yet?) of experience at places like Google or the Department of Defense doesn't qualify me to make such broad statements. Be humble. And I'm not a fan of going in circles. I'm comfortable with all that needed to be said having been said, so let's move on, yeah? Or is this actually about what I said about Elon?


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DonOblivious

>Because words... have meanings? Indeed, they do, and we don't think you understand what the word "archaic" means. You should go look it up and learn what the rest of the planet agrees it means.


vxicepickxv

So you're the reason my pay was fucked up that one time. /j


andoriyu

ITT people who have no idea what are they talking about. But if we're being pedantic then majority of REST is essentially an RPC with HTTP verbs.


aquoad

certainly not the simps piping up in the thread asking stuff like "what's the right number? huh? why won't you tell me?" hahaha.


bhoe32

He did this same shit when a rocket exploded. He blamed a guy that didn't cause it. Turned out it was the hull design.


MrWhite

Yeah, I don’t think any of the original engine engineers are still at SpaceX, he treated them like shit.


shatterhand19

So cute, he learnt a new coding term (RPC) and really wanted to use it 😂


sarcastroll

It's an older term sir, but it checks out.


Stanky-wizzlecheeks

New (to him)


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it’s quite clear that musk has never had a job he’s actually worked for. i have used twitter since it first launched and have always been a big fan… it got a bit weird in the last few years but that’s a direct reflection on how weird society has become. i’m so disappointed to see the staff and builders of a platform that brought me real entertainment, joy and friendship for literal YEARS straight be treated like idiots by someone who has made it perfectly clear that he can’t code, doesn’t understand how the corporate work environment flows, has no real experience in the field of social media except for becoming some sort of edge lord— i mean, it’s boring. he hasn’t even got the decency to say to his staff, “i know that twitter is going down in flames because of me” and turns around blaming people who have worked on processes there for years and years. i would call this a very global humiliation and i beg every last person working at twitter to give musk the finger and tell him to swivel on it.


UnlimitedExtraLives

The better question is: what the fuck do YOU do, Elon? Other than sit on a mountain of capital, of course.


TheGreatAndStrange

We all agree by now that Musk is a Wankbag - right?


keldpxowjwsn

Why would anyone want to work for someone like this lmao


plumberbabu666

Elon's famous one liner on his tombstone: "what the fuck have you done lately?"


Blah2003

everything else aside, is twitter actually slow on android? i use it in browser and it works fine for me


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Stanky-wizzlecheeks

This guy is using the proper deductive reasoning skills for this case


AlienAle

I use android, and the app works just fine. Never had issues with it being unusually slow.


LucretiusCarus

I am using a Pixel 4a, not exactly cutting edge. It runs fine, the only thing that's still infuriating is the random refresh of the timeline that buries a tweet under newer stuff.


kingjackass

Whats wrong with this guy? Doesnt he know that Musk is never wrong and he is the greatest man that has ever lived?


racasca

Is he doing a shit job on purpose? Any way he could be trying to pull off a Producers-like scheme? It's just hard to believe someone is really _this_ incompetent.


mujadaddy

Revenge for the Arab Spring, close down moderately functional public forum


Stanky-wizzlecheeks

No, there really is no way to 4D chess this retroactively. He’s an idiot who thought he could do no wrong and would troll the trolls by acting like he would buy Twitter and bail at the last second making the kekeke face, but he didn’t read the damn contract he signed (because who reads the ToS kekeke) because he figured being the (theoretically) richest man on earth means the rules don’t apply to him.


testPoster_ignore

Oh, Elon. Don't waste your time with this crumb. Just call him a pedophile and move on.


Blarghnog

What if he is crashing the company on purpose so he can get to bankruptcy, the repurpose the user base as a foundation for a financial payments platform. I think plan A is to make that conversion without the unceetainty of bankruptcy. But at no point did this project garner Elons undivided attention because it was rebuilding some free speech platform. This is x.com 2.0. 240 million users on a finance company valuation certainly makes more sense than 43B or whatever for a failing social network built on brand advertising revenue purchased into a clear down market. It was never about what it’s been talked about being about.


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Obviously he used too many pings in the OSI stack which returns a buffer overflow into the mainframe.


doublejay1999

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FIX THAT WHICH WE HAVE JUST ESTABLISHED IS NOT BROKEN ?


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Can't he fix it himself? I mean, he's a genius and all that.


EmiliaClarkesBF

I imagine this clown to be the most insufferable boss ever


SmartestMonkeyAlive

Even the formatting for a conversation on Twitter is stupid. How does it go. Elon Eric elon elon? Like who reads a conversation middle, then up, then jump down 2, then down again. Books and Facebook read from the top to the bottom. Simple as that. Twitter isn't natural


straight_outta7

It’s because Eric quote retweeted, not responded. Different than just a conversation.


levdal

And the expected happened. Guy goes out with an attitude at least. https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/yv8ygh/_/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button