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Huh. At least Blofeld was a cat person, unlike Musk.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Musk: "I'm taking over Twitter and bring back freedom of speech."
Employees: [Use freedom of speech to call out Musk.]
Musk: [Surprised Pickachu face[^]]
It's a very entertaining circus though 
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I'm sorry - in what world can you publicly call out your boss and expect no consequences.
You can piss and moan about him down at the pub after work all you want but if you post it to the company intranet or publicly online - well - NO ONE is shocked when you get canned.
Most of this is just very loud performance quitting.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Most of this is just very loud performance quitting.
No it's not. Musk - yet again - posted something totally random and wildly factually inaccurate and someone who did know the facts pointed that out. Musk just can't stand being told he's wrong, that's what's really happening here.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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I disagree - the engineer knew precisely what the consequences were going to be.
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Of course he did, but that doesn't change the fact that Musk acts like a spiteful, spoiled child.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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So, do you disagree with the RPC naming of the calls?
Because in that article, and the thread, others chimed in to say "they were making a lot of calls, and waiting for responses was a big consumption of time".
FWIW, I think the Engineer, who said EFFECTIVELY "We accumulated a lot of Technical Debt over the last 10yrs"
(Under the MANAGEMENT WE LOVED/AGREED WITH, and not this Yahoo, IMPLIED...) Hung himself right there.
A PROFESSIONAL would have NOT let it go 10yrs.
Finally, what's your assessment that the UNUSED features are causing the App to be slow? What degree of slowness, and WHY is it affecting things... IF they are UNUSED? (Sounds like poor implementation).
I am NOT a Musk Fan, overall... (I think he has been funded by the same deep state that created Google, and is part of the problem)...
What I no longer hear, STRANGELY, is "Muh, Private Company!"
Honestly. If you can explain the difference between "Waiting for responses" and "Too many RPC Calls" (where Musk asked what the right number was). AND agree that if YOUR employee called you out IN PUBLIC while these are effectively the same thing to me... And you wouldn't fire them? Reprimand them?
Also, with the others Joining in... Didn't they violate the Dog-Piling rules of Twitter?
Personally, I would love to see a few of those people get temporary suspensions for Dog Piling.
But Musk wont do that, because I think he WANTS the feedback.
FWIW: I take issue with the classification that the statement was "Wildly Factually inaccurate", because YOU can't know that without knowing the code, and I think the programmer was HIDING behind "EXACT" terminology, which I NEVER expect the CEO/Owner/President of a Company to know! And I certainly would not call him out like he was called out. The guy likely would have gotten a promotion for "You mean the 26 Server Requests that we have to queue up and wait for resolution before we can render (they take 80% of the time)?"
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Well, the boss publicly called out his employees and he didn't even get it right.
If I worked at Twatter I'd probably done the same as I'd be planning on quitting anyway.
Musk deserves no respect from those working under him as he shows them no respect either.
DRHuff wrote: but if you post it to the company intranet or publicly online - well - NO ONE is shocked when you get canned
Depends, how good is this guy? Has he done this before?
A good employee is worth a lot more than some manager's fragile ego.
If my good employees did something stupid because I angered them, I'd sit down and try to resolve the issue.
Of course nothing is worth more than Musk, according to Musk.
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If they have years of technological debt, they've accumulated it under Jack, not Elon. Hence, not exactly "calling Elon out".
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Meh... it's not unique to Musk or Twitter.
Same stuff happening at Meta(Facebook), Alphabet(Google), Amazon, Microsoft and Apple - just less public. The tech gravy train is finally coming to an end. Business fundamentals are becoming king again.
Let's hope crypto dies a very public / violent death[^] in the coming months as well. Maybe some sanity in the markets can help correct what our politicians have saddled us with over the last 2 years.
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fgs1963 wrote: Let's hope crypto dies a very public / violent death[^] in the coming months as well. Maybe some sanity in the markets can help correct what our politicians have saddled us with over the last 2 years.
Along with that, I've noticed over the last few days that both Facebook and Amazon have taken the opportunity to rid themselves of a few thousand employees (each), probably hoping the announcement got lost in the current noise...
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fgs1963 wrote: crypto dies a very public / violent death
Not gonna happen - the guy is a major political doner. This will be downplayed. 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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True - the illustrious NYT did a “hard hitting” expose on him today, yet failed to mention the 10’s of millions of dollars he donated to Ds or the promise of 100’s of millions in 2024. 
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Someone already compared to John Crozine who did similar things and simply paid a fine.
But watch the videos of these "kids" running these two companies.
Then look at their investors... BlackRock? Really. They did due diligence here?
Personally, since they allowed their name to be used, and had their backing...
I hope someone rules that BlackRock has to make everyone whole!
But alas, it won't happen. The masters never pay for losses, they only keep the gains!
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Elon-gated 
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The "all you will ever need app" ... from a browser.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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To be fair. My boss doesn't really understand what I do either - I don't completely understand his. But he does his job and I do mine and together things move properly. Loyalty is probably more important than "technical competence".
Brent Hoskisson
Brent
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I wonder if this is one of the "engineers" laid off by Musk.
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He was not...
he now is
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quite
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Quick follow up (he's really losing it, isn't he?):
Elon Musk's Twitter ultimatum: Go hardcore or go home • The Register
I already read that he has told all his staff that they can no longer work from home (at all). Two fisted management at its best, just the perfect way to induce burnout 
[Edit] Oh I see this is in todays' CP's mailing. Well spotted guys.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Nike wrote: SWOOSH will allow Nike Members to learn about, collect and eventually help co-create virtual creations, which are typically interactive digital objects such as virtual shoes or jerseys.
So they're outsourcing their NFTs? That's embarassing enough, but I'm sure people are onboard after FTX exposed the entire industry 
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Jon McKee wrote: after FTX exposed the entire industry
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Referring to the reveal that they were insolvent and many other exchanges likely are as well. It may not literally be a ponzi scheme but it's uncomfortably close.
EDIT: And the assumption I'm making is that if interest in crypto wanes due to all the rug-pulls and now FTX going under, minting costs are going to go way up, so interest in NFTs will probably go down too. Not a guaranteed outcome but it's interesting watching companies jump on the train as it looks to be derailing.
modified 15-Nov-22 18:14pm.
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