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		fastball on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SR... He was the CTO of Zip2, a software company. He knows how software is built. Sure he might not be a whiz with React like me or the OC, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ With regard to him firing too many people, see my thoughts about what his mindset might be here[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703280

nebula8804 on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

The Zip2 application ran on a single PC. Technology has changed a lot from the early Java days(I think what Zip2 was written in). Perhaps this helps explain some of his public mistakes in understanding the codebase of Twitter.

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