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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by SanjayMehta »

dagmx wrote: post #390
zzzeek wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's pretty clear to me that there are elements of the elite media-political complex that are terrified of Elon purchasing Twitter because he's not part of their crowd and they won't be able to control him and through him what is and isn't allowed on Twitter. IMO all articles about this should be read with that in mind. It's pretty clear there are elements of the Hacker News community who are obsessed with "cancel…

Elon appeals to technocrat libertarians. His combination of technology and capitalism while cutting out all human elements is everything that demographic wants. It’s devoid of empathy and of the understanding of complex human interactions , or understanding other demographics. It’s also one of the prime group that come to this site. Technology as an answer to all of societies needs and trying to make a buck off of it…

If Musk was completely devoid of empathy, he wouldn't have spent so much money on Starlink services for Ukraine.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by riffraff »

alfor wrote: post #611
ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

There is a lot of cross pollination between his companies, that’s is fine: - new materials from SpaceX make it into Tesla cars - productions techniques from Tesla goes into SpaceX rockets - Semiconductor teams from Starlink probably connected to Tesla It mean the best engineers get even more opportunities. win-win Less red tape, more work get done. I think we should all embrace that. Our goal should be to make things…

Has SpaceX developed any new materials?

It was my understanding they use pretty standard steel alloys.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by undersuit »

keyle wrote: post #298

What makes me smile is the idea that Google searches related to "How do I print the code I committed in the last 60 days" must be shooting up on Google Trends.

What makes me chuckle is my memory of spending 2/3s of my time on a coding project in college to find a syntax colorizer I liked for the printed submission of an assignment... and I spent $1.50 printing the code out on a color laser printer with some pretty fancy paper.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by govg »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #570
kweingar wrote: post #567

The most bizarre aspect of this was when Twitter engineers were told to print out their code on paper. There is literally no good reason to do that. At best it is staggering incompetence. At worst it is an intentionally pointless and expensive exercise that serves purely as a loyalty test.

Nah paper is still more efficient than computers in quick meetings. You can imagine many seconds being wasted if they were on a laptop and the engineer needs to find his files. Paper the UX is perfect and instant.

How do you search, tag, jump to code definitions, look up libraries referenced if it is in paper?

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Post by throw_nbvc1234 »

ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

Would you also be outraged if those engineers were given an extra day off instead?

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Post by kweingar »

blindriver wrote: post #603
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Until recently I worked at a private company with a stock vesting plan.

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Post by riffraff »

mikeryan wrote: post #282
Tiktaalik wrote: post #46

I dunno why any Twitter engineers would be really trying that hard right now. Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying, and trying to make a billionare lose 44 billion dollars is a significantly more fun and interesting challenge than making Twitter a better product.

If these numbers are right and they're laying off 50% the workforce, half of me wonders how much Parag could raise to build a new Twitter from scratch and just hire 500 - 1000 talented folks off the street for the venture, I mean if Travis K could raise almost a billion for his shitty ghost kitchen venture I'd have to think they could get enough runway to get something launched pretty quickly. There's so many "What w…

Why would anyone jump on Parag's new Twitter?

The only value Twitter has is network effects, the old leadership clearly didn't show much capacity of adding value and as much as people hate Elon it's not like Twitter didn't come under critics before.

Starting a new social network with "it's not run by those dicks" has not been a particularly successful move, anecdotically.

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Post by biztos »

slenk wrote: post #589
electriclove wrote: post #575

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly! There is too much hate here on anything he does. It just makes sense that he’d want to get people that he trusts looking into this.

Why would $TSLA shareholders want to pay for a Twitter code-review?

This story is very publicly pushing the narrative that Tesla’s software engineers are some elite Ninjas you can helicopter in to pass judgement on the spoiled SF “engineers.”

That image, combined with the image of Musk himself as the no-nonsense get-it-done boss who will call in those ninjas without asking for permission, is very good for $TSLA shareholders.

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Post by wittycardio »

NegativeK wrote: post #576
KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #570

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah paper is still more efficient than computers in quick meetings. You can imagine many seconds being wasted if they were on a laptop and the engineer needs to find his files. Paper the UX is perfect and instant.

"Please send us links to your changes before the meeting begins." And display them on a large screen. I don't think it's really relevant, though. The entire situation is cruel and silly.

Elon fan brain is a debilitating condition
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