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This guy is incredible, I've been following him on Twitter since his Ueno days. An amazing designer and leader. One of my favorite projects he worked on was to literally build ramps all around Iceland: https://rampur.super.site/
Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent
Beautiful website. I also think this is the same guy who had to ask Musk if he was fired because HR couldn't confirm it. Maybe it was a mistake to let him ago, he seems to be pretty talented actually.
Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705
Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098
Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839
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…
> 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-handed built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. Haraldur seems like a pretty accomplished guy and I don't like what Musk did either. But none of the things you…
Nobody deserves to be fired without communication, without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability.
Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go, but mocking someone for their physical disability on the internet is something else entirely.
The perspective warp that happens in these comment threads is baffling. If someone posted the same scenario (getting fired without communication, then their CEO mocked their disability on Twitter) as an "Ask HN" thread, everyone would have their pitchforks out. Replace unknown CEO with Elon Musk, and suddenly commenters are doing mental gymnastics to ignore the real bad behavior and try to justify something else using speculation.
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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 :(
Elon's descent into an asshole Howard Hughes continues at pace. Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent
The 1950s-early 1970s were not exactly a golden era of non-addictive totally harmless painkillers and other psychoactive pharmaceuticals. And if you had essentially unlimited money to spend on private doctors who would do whatever you wanted...
All of that, combined with whatever underlying bipolar or other psychological conditions he might have had, and Howard's predilection towards self-medicating himself, did not turn out to be a good combination.
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…
Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…
This guy is incredible, I've been following him on Twitter since his Ueno days. An amazing designer and leader. One of my favorite projects he worked on was to literally build ramps all around Iceland: https://rampur.super.site/
Looks like people mostly praise him for those ramps, his bar, his awards, and how cool he is in general. It's still not clear what he got done at his job.