Re:Ask HN: Who is firing?
by patmcguire on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @01:20AM
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Twitter is a known tire fire. When I was out in San Francisco everyone who worked at Twitter had a shell-shocked look and talked about the experience the same way they would if they'd just gone to use the restroom and found a dead body.
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Honestly that seems like par for the course for the area of town the Twitter HQ is in
Can anyone actually give any details here or is everyone just gonna do the "nudge nudge wink wink" thing?
Re:Ask HN: Who is firing?
by patmcguire on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:14PM
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I don't know any specifics of Vine. I didn't get a whole lot of details of the internals of Twitter, it seemed to be the usual complaints about companies — "things get done for the wrong reasons", "sudden changes in direction", "bizarre politics", "only care about the money now" — but compressed into a much shorter time frame.
Vine was warned by their power users and Vine ignored them.
"the same way they would if they'd just gone to use the restroom and found a dead body."
If that restroom had been basically showing for weeks that it was going to have a dead body in it any time now. Would still be surprising, but I'd be somewhat braced for it.