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

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Post by plq »

tgv wrote: post #786
TheChaplain wrote: post #783

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments like this makes me lose faith i humanity. If I were a engineer at Twitter, I'd do my absolute best up to the minute I have to leave the premises. Because I would care about the company, my colleagues and most importantly for the >200m people who use Twitter for fun, educational, business and those who depend on it. But it's probably because I'm an old beard, who value being honest and ethical, to be the bett…

> ... Twitter ... honest and ethical That's, IMO, an absurd contradiction. If you value honesty and ethics, you don't work at twitter. It's detrimental to mental health and society, possibly more so than facebook, just for the money. And now Musk might try to use it for his own political and financial agenda. If that risk is serious, running twitter into the ground might be the most ethical thing an employee could do…

> ... running twitter into the ground might be the most ethical thing an employee could do.

Is this what you said during your hypothetical interview with Twitter? If yes, be my guest. If not, you should abide by the promises you made to your employers.

It's got nothing to do with "self-imposed honor code" or whatever terms people come up with to belittle people with integrity. You made a promise when you accepted that offer. You either stand by that or quit.

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

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Post by chris_wot »

marvin wrote: post #776
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd arguably have a case that Musk is not acting in the interest of Tesla and is using his Tesla position to enrich himself rather than the Tesla company. Exactly what the "CEO is supposed to serve shareholders" is all about.

He’s doing the reverse with SpaceX employees, so it’s a net win.

A truly confidence-inspiring move, to have Twitter developers work on mission-critical SpaceX systems. Bravo!

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

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Post by ThinkBeat »

I have no insight into the Twitter codebase, but I presume it is vast. I would think so just based on how many programmers they employ. I wonder if their auto moderation system has a larger code base than the main product.

I dont see how programmers can audit / evaluate / review the code in what the article seems to me to state it was done / will be done fast.

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

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Post by chris_wot »

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…

Imagine the possibilities of Twitter to help improve SpaceX. No, I mean really, if you have that broad an imagination then I consider you to be the next Edward de Bono.

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Post by dhruval »

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.

Tesla can bill Twitter for the work at a fair market price.

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Post by rejectfinite »

colechristensen wrote: post #305
braingenious wrote: post #151

All of this is so funny in general. It seems possible that Twitter might go the way of Tumblr in that goofy policy changes alienate the core userbase. I couldn’t imagine betting billions of dollars on a property that could basically just become a valuable-ish domain in the future.

Nah, there’s nowhere else for cable news to pull hot takes from social media.

This. Most of what I use twitter for is news. Some cyber/IT people and then our news orgs taking screencaps of it for news.

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Post by chris_wot »

segmondy wrote: post #529
tasty_freeze wrote: post #203

I don't at all object to code reviews/evaluation, but the thing I wonder about is this: I rarely open an empty file and write some big block of code. 98% of the time I'm fixing bugs in legacy code or shimming in some new feature. It would be trivial to produce the diffs I generated in the past 30 or 60 days, but the volume of code isn't really a great metric for my productivity. There may be some three line change th…

I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. On a different note, If you're in a large org and all you…

I once reviewed why colors were off in the MacOS version of LibreOffice. Not being all that familiar with the code, I spent days reading through the code. Then I idly looked up the kCGColorSpaceGenericGray and kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB in Apple's documentation, and realized they had been deprecated. Switched to the correct color space and suddenly all the tests passed.

Several dozen characters changed in the actual code. A number of ifdefs removed in the test code. Literally hours of wracking my brains as to the problem in unfamiliar code on a relatively unfamiliar platform.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3a8...

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Post by dmak »

DeathArrow wrote: post #700

>Inside Twitter, in a highly unusual arrangement, engineers from Musk-led Tesla were examining the company’s code as the tech executive sought the input of his technical experts he trusted. I would have expected they already did that prior to the acquisition. It seems the acquisition was a blind buy.

Obviously this isn't a technology acquisition. This was clearly for the platform and buying the existing eye balls on it. Technology can be secondary and improved a lot more easily than trying to capture the cultural relevance that Twitter has.
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