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Hey, Stock in the dumps, 336 chumps are fired. Jack
Yo, 336 people out. We'll compensate. J.
Hey, you stole Elon's schtick: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/652605371857530880
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Agree but so is Reuters, still it's their news that a lot of newspapers uses for their papers. Twitter is a news source not a newspaper.
>Twitter is a news source not a newspaper. While I agree, I also hate this. A Twitter trend can inspire good journalism, but it is not in and of itself journalism. Too many media sources slap a tweet on TV or on a website and call it journalism.
Event's aren't journalism either but without them there is nothing to do journalism about.
Twitter simply connects the event's with the journalists :)
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#253If you're impacted, know ruby, want to make healthcare better, and are open to a position in Boston let me know! email in profile.
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#254Wait why did the subject change?
Isn't the correct headline the subject line of the email?
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#255> The world needs a strong Twitter Really? Does it? I think Twitter needs a strong Twitter, shareholders need a strong Twitter even Twitter employees need it. However the world is, at best, ambivalent about Twitter, if it disappeared tomorrow a replacement would spring up within a few weeks if the world really needed a way to shotgun their messages into the ether.
Funny that you get upvoted for this sentiment when I said the exact same thing about WhatsApp a year ago on HN and it got buried to hell.
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#256If you're impacted, know ruby, want to make healthcare better, and are open to a position in Boston let me know! email in profile.
Growth hacking at it's finest.
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#257It would have been better if it was a total of 124 characters.
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Maybe they have families and don't want to upset the status quo until it's absolutely necessary.
I wonder if there are any risk metrics for one's primary employment. We apply sophisticated risk models to our investments, but I've never heard of anyone doing the same to their employer. As a logical exercise, if we assign some risk to your employer terminating you (I imagine especially for publicly traded companies one could come up with some more-accurate-than-guess-formula), then there would be a point at which…
Someone posted an algorithm to determine the likelihood of bankruptcy on here a while ago, you could modify that I guess.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/document... "Estimating the Probability of Bankruptcy"
One of the things companies do when growth stops and they want to increase profits is lay people off (it's kinda a classic MBA move).
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Let's be honest (and no offense to anyone who got fired), but twitter probably had some dead weight to shed. Sadly, I'm sure some quality engineers got the ax too. Way of the world.
Quality engineers and dead weight are not exclusive. Great people who are burnt out and unmotivated become dead weight to a company. When planning layoffs, it's normal to put people who are checked out, coasting, and/or clearly planning their next move at the top of the list. That doesn't mean they are not high quality professionals.
This is dead on. I think the biggest reason quality engineers turn unproductive is that they feel their efforts are wasted (pointless meetings, org policy requiring some inferior tooling/platform/language, etc.)
Those engineers are usually fairly vocal about obstacles. Managers should learn to interpret this signal, suss out the root cause (usually easy) and eliminate it (usually hard).
Twitter might actually be better served by promoting some set of the folks that landed on the cut list.
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Startup is just a code word for "tech company" anymore.
"Anymore" is just a word used to mean "now" anymore. (I kid, but seriously, I've searched for analysis on the use of the word 'anymore' in the positive (eg, as something other than part of a 'not...anymore' clause) and haven't been able to find anything. Any links would be appreciated, I am legitimately curious as to when and how this became a thing).
Ranks right up there with 'infer' for 'imply' in usage changes which I will go to my grave hearing foremost as a brazen signal of incomplete education.
Kids: do not use either if you care about the judgment of your elders.
Bonus protip: until you vest, you should care.