Musk offers to buy Twitter
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“A small API change had massive ramifications…”
That is a lesson that I learned on the TRS-80 Model I in 1977 when I typed GO TO with a space accidentally and the program stopped working. “Small” errors can have catastrophic effects.
That is a lesson that I learned on the TRS-80 Model I in 1977 when I typed GO TO with a space accidentally and the program stopped working. “Small” errors can have catastrophic effects.
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That assumes he knew enough to keep a platform like this working in the first place. I’m not convinced the more I read up on his history.
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A Yuuuuge tax write-off.
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I would think that not firing 75% of your engineering team would be a good start, everyone warned him to the point that they were essentially laughing at him. He's his own worst enemy.
I don't think it's only the code stack that's brittle and needs to be rewritten. Twitter mostly worked well before Musk came upon the scene. He's incompetent, in addition to being an asshole.
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If Twitter's codebase were as brittle as Musk calls it, I doubt it would have kept running this long:
arstechnica.com
The last time that someone claimed to have "saved" the company that I worked for they had siphoned off all the reserves we had. But in this case Musk pumped billions into and probably will end up with nothing:
arstechnica.com
Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform
Error message: "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint."
arstechnica.com
The last time that someone claimed to have "saved" the company that I worked for they had siphoned off all the reserves we had. But in this case Musk pumped billions into and probably will end up with nothing:
Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout
Twitter doesn't report earnings publicly anymore but told investors of decline.
arstechnica.com
If Twitter's codebase were as brittle as Musk calls it, I doubt it would have kept running this long:
Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform
Error message: "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint."
The last time that someone claimed to have "saved" the company that I worked for they had siphoned off all the reserves we had. But in this case Musk pumped billions into and probably will end up with nothing:
Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout
Twitter doesn't report earnings publicly anymore but told investors of decline.
If he’s treating his remaining engineers like this:
This is all kinds of horrible. I’ll post a screenshot of the first part but it gets worse from there, link below:
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I mean JFC. If you read the whole interaction in the link you’ll see what I mean. What a horrible person.
I think it’s a testament to the codebase that it’s lasted this long!
Oh and then there’s this:
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Speaking of the whole PayPal nonsense... Musk apparently had an ugly internal struggle for control after the merger between X.com and Confinity. Partly over the name of all things, which he ultimately lost when he got pushed out. And of course his "vision" for Twitter sounds a lot like X.com bolted onto the side of Twitter.
Oh and let's not forget the power struggle at Tesla where he ousted a founder in a process that ultimately let him take over as CEO. It's no wonder he feels the need for control and being unopposed at Twitter.
This guy is a piece of work. In the context of these previous power struggles, his nonsense at Twitter makes more sense. He's just repeating old patterns dating back over 20 years.
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Here's the follow up on this with all of his replies, Elon is just a terrible person in general.This is all kinds of horrible. I’ll post a screenshot of the first part but it gets worse from there, link below:
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I mean JFC. If you read the whole interaction in the link you’ll see what I mean. What a horrible person.
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It actually gets much worse. Including revealing, and then mocking, the employee's medical condition.
Elon Musk Laughs at Twitter Worker Who Asked If He Still Had a Job
Musk demanded employee Haraldur Thorleifsson provide pictures to corroborate his work. During the exchange, Thorleifsson found out he had been laid off.
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Yup was just about to post thisIt actually gets much worse. Including revealing, and then mocking, the employee's medical condition.
Elon Musk Laughs at Twitter Worker Who Asked If He Still Had a Job
Musk demanded employee Haraldur Thorleifsson provide pictures to corroborate his work. During the exchange, Thorleifsson found out he had been laid off.
Halli’s thread on Twitter this morning is a very good read
Too long to do screenshots but here’s the start (link to the whole thing above):
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