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Not a believer then?
Having lived with it for 55 years I am very much a believer yes. But high functioning autistic people such as Musk (and me) are in more control of the way they act and think than more severely autistic people.
IF you have someone telling you how you are acting is not 'normal' you can actually learn to adapt your behaviours to make things smoother in life. Not saying you have to pretend to be someone else but just have the awareness of how your words and actions are seen by others.
I am very different now than I was 40 years ago due to that learning process and much happier because of it. However you do need to have a person in your life that is prepared to put up with you and also 'coach' you. Thanks wife 🙂
Imagine your new boss is this much of a dick
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1586127052767318016?t=1LZmiUWnDB6Xvf_pJ9luEQ
On the code thing… two observations from a professional software engineer…
1) peer review of code is not unusual and an excellent way to improve quality and efficiency.
2) in asking to produce all the code they’ve written in the last X days is a great way of finding out who is actually contributing and who isn’t, as well as helping truly size the team. If you’re employed as a coder, and haven’t written any code in 60 days, what have you been doing with your time?
No one is going to argue peer review or measuring output is a bad thing.
He got them to print it out.
in asking to produce all the code they’ve written in the last X days is a great way of finding out who is actually contributing and who isn’t,
Twitter's code isn't the product he's bought. If Musk thinks that he can run Twitter "better" with better coding he's even more stupid than most people already think he is.
Yep, it’s the usual content is king.
You can always fiddle with ‘better’ code but that’s not the problem.
On the code thing… two observations from a professional software engineer…
1) peer review of code is not unusual and an excellent way to improve quality and efficiency.
2) in asking to produce all the code they’ve written in the last X days is a great way of finding out who is actually contributing and who isn’t, as well as helping truly size the team. If you’re employed as a coder, and haven’t written any code in 60 days, what have you been doing with your time?
From an occasional code dabbler,
1) Peer review... on paper?
2) Surely this can be gauged from CVS commit logs? In any case, raw volume of code has to be a terrible metric for measuring programmer performance. "What have you been doing with your time?" - thinking? Actually entering code into a computer is the last stage of development, that's the easy part. I've written some of my best code in lane two of the M65 or on the great white telephone.
Actually entering code into a computer is the last stage of development, that’s the easy part
Amen to that.
^^ this and you could spend days tracking down a "bug" and end up adding a single ampersand to the code base 😀
and I do some of my best thinking playing AOE 😉
Apologies @kerley
I miss read your “I” as “I’d”, which put your response into a different context 😁
1) peer review of code is not unusual and an excellent way to improve quality and efficiency.
'peer' being the operative word.
I’ve written some of my best code in lane two of the M65
This explains some of the interesting driving I've encountered around Blackburn and Burnley.
My original comment may no comment on volume of code, because I know as well that it's a poor metric of productivity. "On paper" is one way of Musk of saying "I think you've produced so little, you could fit it on a piece of paper". Apparently Twitter has around 7000 employees. For such a simple site, that's a remarkable number of people. He's trying to weed out the chaff.
Now it could be a developer has only written a couple of lines, but it's a smart fix to a problem that required a lot of thought to get to it. In which case they'll easily be able to defend it in a code review.
One who has to print out a lot may equally get challenged on how efficient their code is.
Source control system logs will only tell you what was committed and when. Not why. Because developers are uniformly shit at commenting their code, especially places like Twitter where everyone will think they're a Rock Star Developer whose work product is so esoteric and advanced that nobody but themselves could possibly understand it and that it's "art".
FWIW I don't agree with his approach but I can understand why he's doing it.
Source control system logs will only tell you what was committed and when. Not why.
The very first (if not only) thing that commit logs should tell you, is why. That's where you go to if you want to understand the reasons behind the code being written, they're the best documentation of the development process and I imagine a company like Twitter enforces that rigorously.
The very first (if not only) thing that commit logs [b]should[/b] tell you, is why
Should. They rarely do. I've seen vastly more code committed without any commentary than I have with.
And in my experience, tech companies like Twitter are the worst for it.
Apparently Twitter has around 7000 employees. For such a simple site, that’s a remarkable number of people. He’s trying to weed out the chaff.
My understanding is that a huge number of them will be working on defeating spam, nasty porn, scammers, etc. If you sack them, Twitter will go into a death spiral.
My understanding is that a huge number of them will be working on defeating spam, nasty porn, scammers, etc. If you sack them, Twitter will go into a death spiral.
delete anyone with a flag or emoji in their description and it’d cover about 95% of it…
Actually entering code into a computer is the last stage of development
Should be the user acceptance testing cycle...
If you’re employed as a coder
Who's employed as a coder? Mostly it's 'developer' and the development cycle involves a lot more than coding.
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Free MemberApparently Twitter has around 7000 employees. For such a simple site, that’s a remarkable number of people. He’s trying to weed out the chaff.
Eh, simplicity of site doesn't have much to do with the staffing. They're not all backstage whipping the hamsters. The sheer number of users and amount of traffic means lots of human intervention, unless you want it to be a free-for-all of hate speech.
Which Musk does, or at least hate speech that he agrees with, so he's fine with culling the numbers.
Apologies @kerley
I miss read your “I” as “I’d”, which put your response into a different context 😁
No problem.
I see musk is tweeting out nonsense again
It's the paedo cave diver thing all over again...
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1586717524514799617?t=y1Fnr38iCjRYjcc9MZrm2w&s=19
The end of a bell.
Mid terms coming up in the usa too
Maybe **** features should print his tweets out and get someone to peer review them.
Excellent article, thanks 👍
I hope Twitter gets absolutely annihilated by the EU and governments if Musk carries on using it as his personal BS mouthpiece, before he does some serious damage. Would love to see his reaction to a few $multi-billion fines
Elon Musk tweeting far right conspiracy theories regarding the Pelosi break-in and assault, perhaps he'll get banned from his own site.
https://twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1586762017771323393?s=46&t=qiv0cin-SxM8kwLyTu-gWQ
At least now it’s easy to tweet him and tell him exactly what sort of ***hole he is, without, apparently, having your account canned for doing so. Allegedly. It’ll be interesting to see just how long the freedom to post anything lasts, when a lot of vitriol is aimed at him.
He’d be just the sort of ****er who’d get the developers to build him his own ban hammer. Despite having minions with minions you know he’ll just sit there getting arsey, banning people himself.
World's richest man begging for pennies.
https://twitter.com/punished_cait/status/1587395709459988480
Should have thought of that before blowing $44bn on the company?
Yeah, I'm no business genius, but even I can work out that you need to check that sort of shit out before buying a company for $44B
Elon is a helmet.
Haterz.
He's going to make everything amazing social media people said so.
I can't help but think he is having his very own Putin invading Ukraine moment here.
Putin has gone from being considered some sort of strategic genius to now being just an utterly ruthless tyrant that was in the right place at the right time.
This had just popped up on the BBC webby too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63495125
Anyone else just deleted their Twitter account? Wasn’t that good before and I can’t see Musk improving it.
I think it's time for a genuine alternative to step up. I wonder what all those people fired and their CEO could do with $44bn.
No I'm enjoying the show too much, though it's a shame it's costing a lot of innocent people their livelihoods.
Wonder how strong the anti-compete clause is with the now jettisoned founders/employees? I can see an alternative springing up pretty quickly (doesn't feel like the technology build is that onerous tbh and outside of moderation not really sure why it would need a huge team?)
Wonder how strong the anti-compete clause is with the now jettisoned founders/employees? I can see an alternative springing up pretty quickly
There have been plenty of alternatives. Its the problem of getting that critical mass of users rather than technical issues (although running at that scale isnt going to be easy).
There is also the problem of making it profitable.
Be interesting to see if Mastodon can get anywhere.
I'm wondering a few things, if Elon thinks 4000 of his staff are 'fake staff'....?
Also how much of a saving a company that turns over 1.3 billion a year will make by removing half its wage bill?
Why the richest man in the world would buy a buisness that's never made any money, for an extortionate amount of money, would do so in the first place - but his recent tweets about neurons and cyber networks etc have kinda answered that for me, I just now think he is absolutely 100% completely nuts.
I just can't see a return on his investment.
So, again, he totally ignores employment rights over there. He should have given employees 60 days notice if carrying out a mass redundancy.
What a ****.
He is paper rich though.
Twitter was bought with a fair amount of high interest debt, so if he can't monetise twitter (which looks unlikely now as advertisers as pausing), either he burns the company or has to sell some of his stock to service the debts.
Either way it will be an amusing car crash
Just another sociopath I’ve added to the ‘world would be far better off without him’ list
Has he always been such an arsehole, of has all his wealth truely corrupted him that much. Either way he’s a horrific, dangerous human being.
Let's hope he turns Twitter into MySpace.