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Why not? The rich, the police and government track our every movement, word and deed through our technology. Why shouldn't we be able to track them back? If we can't dismantle the pantopticon let's at least make it equitable. Everyone suffers.
Taylor’s not tracking you
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Do you remember the "code review" debacle after Elon took over Twitter? Of course HN thought it was genius[0] but outside of the Elon hugbox the premise of being told to print out the last 30 days of code you wrote to justify your job is absurd and clueless. It's the sort of thing someone who's trying too hard to appear clever would do. Do you really think Elon is like that with Twitter - not just an idiot on it but…
Don't forget the story said an assistant wrote the memo. It's very possible Musk said "print" in the programmer sense - like "print to console" - and the assistant misunderstood.
The problem is the premise that one can effectively decide the value of an employee's work by counting LOC or reading their output in that manner at all. It's dumb whether it's done with a REPL or a stack of paper.
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Going to church which is usually local doesn't compare to the entertainment industry's waste from touring, production nevermind the collective gas usage. We shouldn't be promoting emotional effects that are massed produced like facebook feeds that trigger real emotional responses to fake simulants
I think churches were a lot like spoken word venues with performers who try to copy the best, occasional traveling stars, and the most usable advice being memes that predate Christianity.
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Don't forget the story said an assistant wrote the memo. It's very possible Musk said "print" in the programmer sense - like "print to console" - and the assistant misunderstood.
That doesn't seem likely given his ego and personality and apparent tendency to micromanage. The problem is the premise that one can effectively decide the value of an employee's work by counting LOC or reading their output in that manner at all. It's dumb whether it's done with a REPL or a stack of paper.
High performers challenge this notion because they say “I have very difficult bug fixes that required little code.” But high performing engineers just don’t realize how little (shockingly little) output actually comes out of low performers. Like, a slow trickle of trivial code, and tasks that stretch for weeks for no good reason besides their inability to overcome obstacles
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That doesn't seem likely given his ego and personality and apparent tendency to micromanage. The problem is the premise that one can effectively decide the value of an employee's work by counting LOC or reading their output in that manner at all. It's dumb whether it's done with a REPL or a stack of paper.
You can find the lowest performers in an org pretty easily through a combination of reviewing what they’ve gotten done the last year (via self reviews, manager reviews, a recap writeup etc) and looking at their commit history and docs or other artifacts created. High performers challenge this notion because they say “I have very difficult bug fixes that required little code.” But high performing engineers just don’t…
Yes but that isn't what happened. By all accounts no such process took place at Twitter.
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>but also smarter Smarter? Have you seen his Twitter timeline? He falls for nearly every fake news and conspiracy theory. We aren't threatened by Dave Grohl because he doesn't use his social media outreach to promote right wing conspiracy BS.
Yeah he’s an idiot on twitter. But he’s still smarter than both of us. Or I guess I shouldn’t include you in that, in case your day job happens to involve conducting high-level business and engineering reviews of manned spacecraft like Elon does.
Mark it for a W for privacy. A win for privacy should be celebrated even if the avg person wont (yet) benefit.
Anonymizing aircraft registration was, for the most part, already possible. I first figured this out when I started playing with ADSB reception many years ago before it became the trivial effort it is today. The first plane that I happened to receive just happened to be a learjet registered to "Bank of Utah" or something similarly obtuse. It took all of about 30 seconds to figure out this was Steve Jobs' plane; it ha…