Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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Not sure how it works at Twitter, but at my company I can point to entire teams of people with advanced degrees who work on things for years which I would have been able to do in maybe a month. It doesn't matter how smart or educated someone is, if they don't really understand the problem, and there is no rote coursework in how to understand the problem. You understand the problems by having been around for a while, and by being entrepreneurial in your job duties. That sort of stuff doesn't put you on the management track unless you also have the right people skills, but at least you can survive cullings like this one (if you want to), or in my case be essentially self-directed and manager-free in my job duties.
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Sort of related to the post earlier about "engineers," is the observation that, despite all the doom and gloom from late last week, Twitter is still functioning exactly as it has in the past. At least for the end-user.
Some snarky comment was made about how it's working with more than 75% of the people gone, and how that should be applied to the US government.
As an aside, all the people complaining about how they're going to leave Twitter because of the new leadership and new rules...where are they going? Has anyone built a social network platform that comes even close to what Twitter is. Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I hear noises of people making backup accounts at Mastadon but that’s just in case Twitter falls down.
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Elon Musk poked fun at CBS for returning to Twitter after less than a 48-hour hiatus due to "uncertainty" with the platform under his management.
Two days after the major news network said it would suspend all Twitter usage, CBS announced that it will resume activity Sunday as it continues to monitor "security concerns" they have with the platform since the billionaire Tesla CEO took over the company.
"After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation," the CBS News Public Relations team wrote on Twitter.
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
I'm not sure whether there is any meaningful correlation between political leanings and programmer ability, but I think the more important influence here is that if you are a good programmer, you would hesitate to work at places like Parler because it damages your career.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
I can assure you that it is exactly the opposite.
No question
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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