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Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by slantedview »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

In an era where everything is politicized, especially in the US, defending Elon is about political alignment. This is why you'll see conservatives who don't even know much about Elon sing his praises - because they believe he's one of them.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by the_only_law »

hintymad wrote: post #80

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> If we get the answer, shouldn't we ask if Twitter is wrong to fire a disabled person if he didn't do his job?

I would assume that would be dependent on said answer, but you weren’t actually trying to propose a real question were you…

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by finikytou »

jklinger410 wrote: post #77
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

> I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. I didn't know being paralyzed made you immune to criticism.

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by showerst »

nonethewiser wrote: post #101
danso wrote: post #81

To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242

> Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field Its literally just a pink background for me. Not sure if I'm missing something or if that's the joke. I'm not familiar with him and assume he's a great designer. I dont understand the reference here though.

It’s gorgeous on my iPhone, though it does scrolljack for effects which I find annoying.

Maybe an overzealous ad blocker?

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by starrider »

nonethewiser wrote: post #101
danso wrote: post #81

To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242

> Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field Its literally just a pink background for me. Not sure if I'm missing something or if that's the joke. I'm not familiar with him and assume he's a great designer. I dont understand the reference here though.

If you scroll, it changes.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by starik36 »

JeremyNT wrote: post #108
starik36 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.

There's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount. I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.

The only thing that matters is what you take from it. Severance. Everything else is completely and utterly immaterial.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by archagon »

wood_spirit wrote: post #9
francislavoie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

It’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(

Personally, I just learned about a really interesting new person to follow. (Too bad he’s not on Mastodon.)

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by vidarh »

darth_avocado wrote: post #32
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

> I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing So just because he is well known, you suddenly believe a Twitter employee. But others who Elon claims to not be working, they’re probably not working?

It's almost irrelevant whether or not he was doing anything - even if he for some reason 100% deserved to be fired, the way Elon responded was wildly unprofessional.

All Elon needed to do was to reply "thanks for bringing this to my attention, clearly the ball has been dropped somewhere. I'll make sure someone responds to your e-mail", and then take it private.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by [deleted] »

nonethewiser wrote: post #87
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

> "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" > for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong I'm not an Elon fanboy and I'm not familiar with these events. But it seems like paying someone who isn't working isn't a great use of money. It seems reasonable to end an arrangement like that. Was that really what happened?

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