Kinda reminiscent of how dictators like Stalin and Mao surrounded themselves with sycophantic yes-men. Elon talks a lot about free speech but is that really possible when he's acting like a tyrant?
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#92I can barely believe this man started a spaceflight company. He must have had some incredibly subordinates to pull that off; not only did they have to deal with him, but they also had to bootstrap spaceflight.
I'm seriously wondering if this is drug related. I dont think he was always this erratic.
He's always had an outsized ego, a lot of money from his family that masked his individual success, and, up until now, was successful at cosplaying an engineer.
Good people tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. My personal point of no return is when those children were trapped in a cave, and Elon musk came in to turn that crisis situation into a publicity stunt to further his engineer cosplay.
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#93The world cup is in two days -- how will Twitter cope with the largest amount of traffic it sees all year? Why fire the majority of employees right before this major event?
Are football fans really a big part of the Twitter user base?
I don't know about soccer, but American sports news is hugely tied up with twitter. It's replaced the sports page of the news paper, ESPN, and even sports radio. I imagine it's the same for international football.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entire payroll team resigned yesterday so that's probably correct for the moment.
That's a pretty huge deal if true. How confident are you about that?
Its been thrown around a lot on Twitter from recently departed employees and a couple other tech people who have been pretty accurate about Twitter news, but I haven't seen it carried by any major media sites.
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#95Did Elon lead his other companies this way and we just didn’t know? Or has he suddenly lost his ability to make good decisions?
His history at X.com and then PayPal is definitely of someone who tried pushing their own technical delusions down the throats of other technical people, there he got fired for it.
It seems minor now but at the time he was pushing for PayPal's tech stack to ditch Linux and use a Microsoft stack instead. Peter Thiel backstabbed him to oust him for that.
I know someone that works at Tesla and they say that when Elon comes around there's an aura of terror. They've personally seen him firing people on a whim during one of his "visits".
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#96What if Twitter actually succeeds after this? I'm not saying that it's likely, but what if? Let's imagine it as a thought exercise. What will this say about the current state of software engineering in startups and big techs?
-- In this comment I said a dumb thing about stock price for a private company --
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#97Imagine thinking you can judge anything about a developer (especially Senior/Staffs) from screenshots of code. Elon has truly lost the plot.
Also can’t one just print someone else’s code, especially if the person is already gone.
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#98Imagine thinking you can judge anything about a developer (especially Senior/Staffs) from screenshots of code. Elon has truly lost the plot.
Of course you can? It's basically asking to see what you consider your best work. If you're earning 100k a year and the most important code you show is how you turned a link colour from light blue to blue -- then your $100,000 a year job has now become questionable. It's hardly losing the plot to ask someone "What have you achieved and what do you think your best work is?"
Lots of jobs work precisely like that.
If you want to argue whether the people who do them should get US$100k/yr, that's a different question.
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#99>In an email for remote Twitter engineers, Elon Musk says he wants to speak to people on video ("only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused") but "if possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF to present in person." He'll be at the office until midnight. https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593665774744350721
I guess they'll hop in their private jets and head on over.
weekend before thanksgiving no less!
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#100>In an email for remote Twitter engineers, Elon Musk says he wants to speak to people on video ("only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused") but "if possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF to present in person." He'll be at the office until midnight. https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593665774744350721
This shows how out of touch he is - fly, right now, possibly across the country, just to please me. He has no concept or care of how much that might cost or disrupt someones life.
i'm sure everyone has a corporate card or at least a process for re-imbursement ( assuming that department still exists)