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Are football fans really a big part of the Twitter user base?
Twitter experiences massive usage surges every year during the World Cup.
Which sport? Football's world cup is once every 4 years...
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#132What 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 --
>a stock rebound
There is no publicly listed stock that can rebound. Any new investor will surely want to look at the books first:
Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
#133Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
#134What 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?
successful in what metric? Elon can privately throw billions at this if his ego can't let go of it. If you want to see success you just need to look at bytedance and tencent.
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#135> ...please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.
Holding my fingers crossed that he receives many many screenshots... of Leetcode.
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#136I am curious if he tried the same at Tesla or SpaceX: "Hello dear mechanical engineers, please bring photos all the cars/rockets that you created in the last 6 months".
I would think that would work rather well, since it is 100% visual.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I've read the past few weeks, Elon is mostly just a figurehead at SpaceX at this point and it seems like only his cultural presence (read: making everyone work long hours) is still around. Not sure about Tesla but it seems like it's about the same besides very high level business direction decisions.
I really don't get why corporations in this day and age still make people work long hours. There have been countless studies showing that long hours lead to more mistakes, worse productivity, decreased motivation, worse health, and burnout. Workers are also more likely to leave for a job with a better work/life balance if given the chance. It seems many corporate execs haven't gotten the message yet, and I don't know…
i suspect because there are so many bad managers.
There's few tests to root out bad managers. The damage bad management is capable of is.. impressive, extensive.
Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
#138What 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?
This is a troublesome thought. It will mean that our profession is likely to get a lot more difficult.
Perhaps a union or guild of some description would be in order.
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#139Oh so that's the "extreme programming" I have been hearing about.
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How does he get away with doing almost nothing? Why can't he be fired?
Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
> Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
"coordinate and plan technology" can be a huge amount of effort, vastly greater than "nothing".