Musk email: "Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor."
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Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who actually writes software”
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He only wants rockstars. But he wants them to toil like galley slaves.
We'll see how that plays out.
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You know, that's a good analogy to Musk's leadership. He gets rid of the people he thinks are useless, without ever asking why someone found them useful.
Then runs into something very catastrophic because he fired the people who prevented it from happening. Just like what happened to the people who weren't on the B Ark.
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Just remember that all these posters telling us how Musk has an absolutely genius plan to turn Twitter around are the same posters that were telling us that Musk had and absolutely genius plan to get out of buying Twitter.
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I had to print out about thousands of pages of emails for a lawsuit once. The terms they asked for were things like "jpg" "image" "photo" and "link" -- I decided to do the search on the raw html emails, to be extra "helpful" to the opposing counsel (or at least their bills for discovery). This feels similar somehow.
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Yes, of course. In a well-run company with a well-run legal department there regular push and pull about what makes sense to do internally and when to hire external counsel. It changes over time for various reasons. That kind of analysis and discussion, um, does not seem to be what was being proposed.
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If you really believe that Tesla is 10 times more valuable than GM, you'd be crazy not to sell your house, your car, your cat, and the shirt off your back, and dump all that money on TSLA. But I suspect that deep down you know that TSLA is a manipulated meme stock, even tho you won't admit it.
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You should send him your entire app as a screenshot of a Twitter thread.I have one app, (just one of many) written c++ that is 10,000+ lines of code without any of the add-in libs, etc, I'd send him 156 screen shots with 64 lines of code each. Good fing luck Musk, and the last screen shot would be my Resignation.
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I think you mean Thanos wimped out at 50%. But Elon Musk is no wimp, he's going to wipe out the whole thing!
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Musk thought that very few people would leave him, and just about everyone at the company is leaving him. And as we've seen in the past, Musk does not handle people leaving him well.
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The eventual outcome of this is probably obvious to everybody, but I've been in a similar situation at a software company (fire everybody who knows how it works to cut costs and expect the 4th world contractors to understand it through some sort of osmosis) which quickly led to the company's demise.
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I think beth is about to publish an article on how bad for anyones health is Twitter. At this point pick any article about asbestos, replace the word with twitter and noone would see a difference
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Reminds me of that scene at swordfish where John Travolta gives a "code challenge" to Wolverine. Probably something similar is happening at that 10th floor, only focused at defusing some of the various time bombs waiting for Elon at Twitter's codebase.
"that scene" at Swordfish
"that scene" at Swordfish
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Not entirely untrue. Tesla's self-driving code seems to share a lot with the code for a ballistic missile.
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I am a software engineer, and you are absolutely correct. I've had to do code reviews in the past of another company's code base when my employer was doing an acquisition. We did look at the code itself, but mainly just to verify code hygiene, documentation, presence of appropriate unit tests, etc. We also went through a bunch of high-level organizational charts and presentations, which were absolutely critical to understanding how everything fit together. None of that would fit into a few screen shots.
In other words, you (a non-programmer) know a lot more about software engineering than Musk does. Of course, at this point the same could probably be said about most of humanity, so don't let it go to your head.
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If the salient code has to be at most 140 characters, APL is the natural choice.
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A screen-shot of my code, Mr. Musk.
By the way, I saw a cat wandering the hallways, but Security isn't answering.
By the way, I saw a cat wandering the hallways, but Security isn't answering.
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Setting aside the arsehole tone and tenor of the emails...
Understand the tech stack? WTF?
This is now beyond farcical, I don't even think there is a word to adequately describe the dysfunction. I mean, we're talking Wile E. Coyote levels of super genius.
He only now wants to "better understand" the tech stack? Mind boggling.
Understand the tech stack? WTF?
This is now beyond farcical, I don't even think there is a word to adequately describe the dysfunction. I mean, we're talking Wile E. Coyote levels of super genius.
He only now wants to "better understand" the tech stack? Mind boggling.
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Definitely less than one; in fact, I propose a new measure, the Musk, equal to 1/5th of a Scaramucci. With that, I think Twitter will last 2 Musks, max.
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To be fair Classic Mac was an absolute garbage operating system built on Pascal. Windows 95 was far, far more advanced at a low level and Windows NT might as well have been magic. Classic Mac memory management was a brain dead dumpster fire that had to be done manually by the user. It was pretty and very, very little else. The only thing OS 9 did more reliably than WinNT was crash.
MacOS X brought little things like preemptive multitasking, memory protection and a security model that wasn't obscurity.
Edit: And let me just say I'm writing this on an 16GB/1TB 14" M1Pro MacBook Pro, while watching South Park on my Apple TV with an iPhone SE and 2020 11-inch iPad Pro 1-TB with inches of my body and a Windows 11 desktop across the room. And my first "modern" computer was a Macintosh Performa 6360 that shipped with Mac System 7.5.5 that I personally upgraded to System 8.6. Classic Mac was trash.
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Gaddhafi? More like McAfee.
Obviously Facebook was bloated, but I wonder if the timing and scope of their layoffs were influenced by the market being absolutely flooded with highly experienced social media vets. Anyone know if they have a hiring freeze as well?
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I'm sure they can submit an expense report to their no-longer-employed-at-twitter manager who will immediately send it for payment to the no-longer-existent payroll dept ...
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I'm sure he'll also cancel Christmas if the company is still running by then.
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