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crazyfingers said:
ZiprHead said:
I just saw a report he fired a bunch of Space X employees because they criticised Musk.
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I can't decide if Musk more resembles the leadership style of Trump or Putin.
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Trump. Because people who disappoint Putin are usually so overcome with grief of their failure they commit suicide. The people who disappoint Trump just write a book or go on to some other grift
 
ZiprHead said:
I just saw a report Musk fired a bunch of Space X employees because they criticised him.
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Mass quitting at Twitter, too, over his dumb-ass ultimatum. He's not going to have enough people left to make the building look occupied when his friends come over, let alone get any work done. What a child he is!
 
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Twitter temporarily closes offices after Musk ultimatum prompts new wave of resignations

“The train has started in #social-watercooler,” one employee said, referring to a Slack room Twitter employees have used in recent weeks to notify others that they are leaving.
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One engineer said that resignations had hit important parts of the company's engineering operation.

"Entire teams representing critical infrastructure are voluntarily departing the company, leaving the company at serious risk of being able to recover," the engineer, who said they were handing in their resignation on Thursday, wrote to CNBC.

The engineer added that many leaving Twitter did not feel the need to stay, and that they only knew of two people staying, one because the company sponsored their U.S. visa.

"We are skilled professionals with lots of options, so Elon has given us no reasons to stay and many to leave," they wrote.
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Not everyone has that kind of flexibility, but it's nice to see it flexed by those who do.
 
Musk is the usual wealthy autocrat bully. Nothing new in American history.

A more successful version of Trump.

I haven't looked up the details of how Tesla came to be. It started out building for an existing upscale market for people wanting to go green. All the technology existed and just had to be applied. It did not require Musk to have people skills.

Musk probably does not understand office workers as in Twitter are not the same culture as engineers.

Back in the 90s a CS grad would go to MS, work like a dog 24/7 for a few years, get MS and experience on a resume, and get stock options. They could walk away with some money in stocks. I think MS in Redmond used to have a 24/7 cafeteria.
 
Today's hilarious yet worrying Musk update:

Elon Musk calls for 'anyone' left at Twitter who can write software to meet him, or fly in, to help him 'better understand' Twitter's tech

Having fired or pressured into quitting all the people who created the "software" he owns (isn't his problem rather more complicated than just software?) He's now sitting in his empty office staring at a pile of memos and subpoenas he has no idea how to answer, or even who to ask how to answer.

We're going to have to nationalize Twitter just to sort out the mess.
 
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steve_bank said:
I haven't looked up the details of how Tesla came to be. It started out building for an existing upscale market for people wanting to go green. All the technology existed and just had to be applied. It did not require Musk to have people skills
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It didn't require Musk at all, he just took over its board then declared himself CEO. He was always the money, not the brains. Tesla blows several hundred million a year on various lawsuits, almost entirely due to the personal misconduct of its CEO. The company is among the most valuable in the country, yet struggles to make a profit, and has essentially been bailed out by the governments of progressive states which require traditional automakers without a strong EV lineup to pay expensive wereguild to companies that do.
 
steve_bank said:
Musk is the usual wealthy autocrat bully. Nothing new in American history.

A more successful version of Trump.

I haven't looked up the details of how Tesla came to be. It started out building for an existing upscale market for people wanting to go green. All the technology existed and just had to be applied. It did not require Musk to have people skills.

Musk probably does not understand office workers as in Twitter are not the same culture as engineers.

Back in the 90s a CS grad would go to MS, work like a dog 24/7 for a few years, get MS and experience on a resume, and get stock options. They could walk away with some money in stocks. I think MS in Redmond used to have a 24/7 cafeteria.
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I dunno about 'more successful.' Unless it's a contest to see who can lose billions of dollars in the shortest time period. See current Twitter mess.
 
A Shakespearean tragedy?

A coder, a coder, my kingdom for a coder.

Or maybe 'hoisted by my own petard'.
 


A new one: Tribel But it has some problems: Left’s ‘Free of Hate’ Platform Full of Bigoted, Sexist Posts - extremely nasty posts about Republicans and conservative Democrats, including very misogynist ones about female ones like MTG and Lauren Boebert and Kyrsten Sinema and Amy Coney Barrett and Elaine Chao.

liker.social - Liker Social - "Decentralized microblogs based on LikeCoin & Mastodon open source facilities, supporting likes for rewards, helping creators connect with their own communities and earn revenue from likes and subscriptions" - Liker, a Facebook Alternative for Liberals, Is Hive of False Claims About Trump
On Tuesday, one of the top Liker posts claimed that Trump designated no money for Puerto Rico disaster relief—a falsehood. Another popular post was an unproven claim that Trump was banned from Barbara Bush’s funeral. A third top post claimed that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos registered a yacht called Seaquest in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes, a claim Snopes rates as “mostly false.”
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Maybe Musk is learning marketing.

1. Let controversial Trump back om Twitter.
2. More pele go to Twitter to see what Trump says.
3. Advertisers see an increase and advertise more.
 
Elon Musk on Twitter: "Reinstate former President Trump" / Twitter - Yes: 51.8%, No 48.2%

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Idk man, ..." / Twitter
Idk man, last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection, multiple people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured but I guess that’s not enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is

The bipartisan @January6thCmte has extensively covered how Trump’s use of Twitter played a critical role in the violence of that day.

Review their extensive work & ask yourself why a billionaire is toying w/ bringing back the person responsible for this: (video of Jan 6 attacks)

Let’s see if he throttles this as “negativity” too 🙄
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Elon Musk is reinstating Donald Trump — based on a personal Twitter poll - The Verge
 
steve_bank said:
3. Advertisers see an increase and advertise more.
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Maybe. Maybe not. Twitter's rapidly declining advertising revenue has a lot to do with companies not wanting to appear next to hateful crazy stuff. Will advertisers really want Trump back? I don't know.
 
Maybe Musk is just what he appears to be.

An eccentric nut case with a lot of money.

In a formal business situation taking into account debugging, documentation, and ancillary processes the average number of debugged and released lines of code per day may not be all that high.


Getting rid of support groups like quality control and revision control can lead to serious problems especially in a multi programmer environment. I have seen it on a smaller scale. Get rid of people and groups to improve profits and months later their value becomes obvious.

Lose too many coders and managers can lead to chaos.
 
steve_bank said:
Maybe Musk is learning marketing.

1. Let controversial Trump back om Twitter.
2. More pele go to Twitter to see what Trump says.
3. Advertisers see an increase and advertise more.
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I can see how Pelé would increase the popularity of a social media platform, particularly amongst Brazilians and soccer fans; But I doubt he cares enough about Trump's opinions to be drawn to Twitter now that Trump is back.
 
crazyfingers said:
steve_bank said:
3. Advertisers see an increase and advertise more.
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Maybe. Maybe not. Twitter's rapidly declining advertising revenue has a lot to do with companies not wanting to appear next to hateful crazy stuff. Will advertisers really want Trump back? I don't know.
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Yeah, if Trump has achieved anything valuable in his life, he has at least disproven the adage "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

People, on the whole, tend to resile from buying stuff that's advertised next to fascist propaganda.
 
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