[nyarlathotep_]

Yeah I think people understate how large of an impact this had.

My immediate reaction to that was the "jig is up"--I argued with friends that Twitters functionality would remain intact, there'd be no major outages, etc and they couldn't understand how that'd be possible.

[jjk7]

Many if not most engineers are working on things 2-5 years out, not keeping services running.

[stanford_labrat]

i think the total reduction was about 2/3 if memory serves? so 1 in 3 is that number you'd be looking at for "actually useful". heavy air quotes on that.