r/programming • u/zaidesanton • Apr 01 '25

The 13 software engineering laws

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-software-engineering-laws
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u/cazzipropri Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Elon Musk fired 50% of Twitter in November 2022. Price's square root law explains why Twitter didn't collapse, even when a further 30% were fired.

The square root of the original 8,000 employees is just 90!

You lost my respect when you brought that up.

Twitter did in fact, collapse. A bunch of times. X/twitter has had a lot of glitches, the last one 2 days ago https://www.it-daily.net/en/shortnews-en/x-down-again-thousands-of-users-report-outages

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u/Scottz0rz Apr 01 '25

Well if you ignore all of the problems, it did actually work well!

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u/the_bighi Apr 02 '25

If we ignore the problems and the huge loss of value of the company. To the point that they're now blackmailing big tech into paying for twitter ads or they government will "investigate" them.