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(using his platform)

What was it, beacon of absolute free speech or some horseshit like that? Speaking of horse, remember when he told an employee he'd buy her a horse if she fucked him?

Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

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#142

He fired another one: https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592308273071681536?s=46&t... If he fires all the engineers with a bad attitude it’ll just be the product managers left.

Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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post #40

After seeing Elon mixing up all async services that happen in backend with Android client making as many requests, I wonder if I thought this guy is smart because I know nothing about building cars or launching space rockets. Edit: "guy is smart" probably should be "guy is technically competent". I am sure Elon is smart, I think he is being Phony while acting technically competent in every area.

I still believe that his insistence on only using computer vision for Tesla’s self driving was profoundly wrong. I got my ivy-league graduate degree in a related field right around the time when he probably was making the decision (2015) and it was obvious to everyone around me that we are not even close to having the kind of generic, reliable CV you would need for a car. Obviously, in grant proposals and papers we p…

Considering I have been in situations with zero optical visibility, I am frankly baffled he thought that removing sensors including ultrasonics which are cheap as chips, was a good idea

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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post #81

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Now I finally understand Elon's secret strategy to keep Twitter engagement up.

Yeah but his cardinal sin right now is forgetting that advertisers are small-c conservative. They despise uncertainty and drama, and have wisely fled Twitter for the time being.

They are also greedy. Twitter is where the people are, so they will advertise there.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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Elon turned off the 2fa microservice to reduce complexity: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/15922599381095219...

I logged into Twitter with 2FA about an hour ago (hours after this tweet). “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.” — Abraham Lincoln

I've heard it's working for some and not for others

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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The drama is literally the only reason I'm on Twitter right now. Better than any TV show. The moment things get back to "normal" I'm deleting the app.

For real. I deleted mine last week but I might have to make a new one so I can read the hilarious threads. They their up a modal if you scroll too far as an unregistered user

On the modal, tap “login” or whatever, then close the modal. Continue scrolling the feed. No need to have an account.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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I wonder if there’s a severance package for that. Employment suicide by cop.

Dangerous gamble for just a couple months of severance. Would make me hesitant to hire that person knowing they have such bad judgement as to publicly badmouth the CEO of their company on Twitter. Even hiring managers who personally hate Elon have to understand that this developer could easily turn the same energy on their own company at some point in the future and make them look terrible. Definitely a career limiti…

> Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending.

She is already receiving job offers, so how could you possibly come to that ridiculous conclusion?

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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According to some people here you're just supposed to take it when your boss shits on your work and firing you for any push back at all is entirely justified.

We don’t know internal conversations to be fair and we’re mostly (only) putting together datapoints that we see on Twitter.

According to Twitter employees on platforms like Blind and news sources, Twitter (the website) is the only datapoint for communication with their new boss.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#150
post #142

He fired another one: https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592308273071681536?s=46&t... If he fires all the engineers with a bad attitude it’ll just be the product managers left.

Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.

> Eh, there’s a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.

Well, judging from the recent stories about Twitter’s internal environment and the public examples of criticism at Twitter, privately in an organization with no viable upstream internal communication and a culture of fear and retaliation is both impossible and likely to get you fired (immediately or on a list of targets by management) without your message getting to the top, whereas publicly your message is at least more likely to get to the top before you get fired, plus you are likely to have job offers in the thread, so, its clearly the preferred strategy.

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