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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by mhh__ »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #253
lohii wrote: post #154

If someone completely new to my codebase came along and tried to evaluate my code I'd laugh. You can't jump in and "evaluate" without knowing context and being familiar with the features.

What’s more funny is how people commonly believe like this their code is so special or different than everyone else’s. Reverse engineering a large code base is not anywhere as hard as most software engineers somehow believe. I was tasked with analyzing a large code base from a company that my employer had been an investor in and as part of their investment had been given IP rights, the company employees were floored…

The code is almost never special, the business processes are.

Everything seems so incredibly trivial until you reach something that isn't.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by rootusrootus »

dmak wrote: post #238

Comments are just full of people who want to bring down Musk for the most trivial things without acknowledging the amount of good he has put forth. FYI, I don't own a Tesla or own their stock or own any stock in Musk owned companies. I don't even follow his twitter account.

Ha, there's at least as many fanboys here. It's not a lopsided discussion.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

ajross wrote: post #157
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd arguably have a case that Musk is not acting in the interest of Tesla and is using his Tesla position to enrich himself rather than the Tesla company. Exactly what the "CEO is supposed to serve shareholders" is all about.

The counter argument is that Tesla has created more shareholder value over the past few years than any other single company, and in fact more than a ton of whole market segments. I mean, investors know he's sort of a loon, this is hardly the weirdest thing he done[1], and they're still on board. And FWIW: if you really want to structure this in a shareholder-friendly way, Twitter can just pay Tesla a consulting fee.…

Isn't the counter argument to this that he's also the guy who has lost the stock 43% of its value over the last year?

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by mhh__ »

smt88 wrote: post #51
marstall wrote: post #26

I was thinking the "30-60" day time window may be a somewhat subtle way of catching out engineers who haven't written a thing in that amount of time. that would be one way to identify low-performers. not unproblematic by a long shot, but quick, and probably somewhat effective. and it wouldn't require any deep knowledge of twitter's codebase on the part of the reviewers.

Any slightly competent software leader would know that you can track every character of code written by any dev using version control. Printing it out as a mark of honor/shame is something a petty, arrogant tyrant would do. Musk has been around people who are afraid to say no to him for too long.

Not impossible he literally doesn't understand version control as a way of life.

More likely just a power trip.

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Post by tyingq »

Thaxll wrote: post #278

How Tesla engineers are relevant into evaluating Twitter code.

Probably just a third party that Elon would trust to corroborate answers to questions. He probably hasn't made many friends in the Twitter building, and may not take what he's told at face value.

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Post by scaramanga »

helf wrote: post #259
dmak wrote: post #238

Comments are just full of people who want to bring down Musk for the most trivial things without acknowledging the amount of good he has put forth. FYI, I don't own a Tesla or own their stock or own any stock in Musk owned companies. I don't even follow his twitter account.

That’s because you can start a buncha stuff that ends up great and still be a raging narcissistic man-child. And a whole lot of people want to just overlook everything because “he makes a lot of money” or “I like this tech thing”

Or buy it off someone else after they start it, and then use them for non-consensual buggery (in the metaphorical sense, since only one of them is blonde enough for Musk's tastes).

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Post by jwilber »

recuter wrote: post #233
Waterluvian wrote: post #21

I’m still looking for a concise term for “someone who claims to be an expert but immediately reveals beyond any doubt that they have no clue what they’re saying, simply by opening their mouth on the subject.” Having Tesla engineers over to review Twitter code is definitely that. It’s ridiculous.

Quoted post unavailable.

What about twitter engineers makes you think this?

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Post by colechristensen »

ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

You’d only be pissed off if you had a predisposition to dislike elon and then why would you be a TSLA shareholder?

This is a tiny amount of money compared to the daily cost of running TSLA and would have zero actual impact to shareholder value. If it isn’t being accounted for correctly, there will be a tiny investor lawsuit and a tiny amount of money changing hands.

This is latching on to just anything to complain about and really detracts from the ability of elon critics to be taken seriously because it’s just complaining about a few pennies worth of shareholder value.

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Post by mhh__ »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #204
love2read wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The joke was “Let that sink in”.

> The joke ... Don't jokes have to be funny?

Musk aims to be funny to people he doesn't know on twitter using memes that weren't that funny 5 years ago.

I genuinely don't get it. He's shockingly not funny considering how hip he is for his age.

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