Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

[catsmate]

Printing out all the code they wrote? Utter lunacy, on many levels. Back in the dim and distance past when I wrote code for a living, I didn't do it in isolation, and I was often adding to or modifying existing code written by someone else, and there would have been no practical way to list what I alone had written.

Indeed, code management and repository tools are very important to multiple participant projects.

 

[HansMustermann]

A subjective observation I made a long time ago, and has been true so far at least in my experience, is that the worst kind of PHB for a programmer isn't one who's just an MBA who never even had a home computer. That one might actually know how to delegate and other sane business practices. The absolute worst one is actually one who did some programming 30 years ago on some tiny scale command-line project, and was overestimating his competence back then. That's the kind who'll get ideas like that you're just wasting his time by applying some patterns instead of writing the 'hairball' quick-and-dirty thing he was doing back then, or not working as fast as he thinks he was (and actually wasn't) back then, or various other such.

Like, back then he'd estimate he needs only a day tops for something, end up needing a week because it wasn't as simple as he thought (e.g., because he ends up needing to fix all the bugs and edge cases he bungled on that first day), spend a couple more days total over the next year ironing out the bugs, and think that yeah, but he had an excuse. Fast forward 30 years, and he thinks he could do it in a couple of hours (since he no longer has any way to test it, his self-evaluation only goes up), you want 4 days, that means you're some slacker.

Of course, it's not a proper study, so I could be wrong. But that's been my subjective impression.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I looked at Tesla's financials with another student the other day and was absolutely astounded. Their sales are growing at insane rates for a company of that size--they were up 60% Y/Y in 2021 and it looks like they will almost hit that in 2022. Their margins are terrific and not narrowing. They will of course run into the law of big numbers eventually, but for now they are not kicking ass and taking names only because once they get done kicking ass there are no names left to take.

When a business is showing extraordinary performance there are three possibilities:

1. It's just a really good business
2. The figures are lies
3. Criminal shenanigans are occuring-- for instance, moneylaundering

I wouldn't trust Musk futher than I could throw one of his miraculous rescue submarines.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

A subjective observation I made a long time ago, and has been true so far at least in my experience, is that the worst kind of PHB for a programmer isn't one who's just an MBA who never even had a home computer. That one might actually know how to delegate and other sane business practices. The absolute worst one is actually one who did some programming 30 years ago on some tiny scale command-line project, and was overestimating his competence back then. That's the kind who'll get ideas like that you're just wasting his time by applying some patterns instead of writing the 'hairball' quick-and-dirty thing he was doing back then, or not working as fast as he thinks he was (and actually wasn't) back then, or various other such.

Like, back then he'd estimate he needs only a day tops for something, end up needing a week because it wasn't as simple as he thought (e.g., because he ends up needing to fix all the bugs and edge cases he bungled on that first day), spend a couple more days total over the next year ironing out the bugs, and think that yeah, but he had an excuse. Fast forward 30 years, and he thinks he could do it in a couple of hours (since he no longer has any way to test it, his self-evaluation only goes up), you want 4 days, that means you're some slacker.

Of course, it's not a proper study, so I could be wrong. But that's been my subjective impression.

Chimes with my experience in healthcare and Carrot Flower Queen's experiences in both payroll related IT systems and payroll itself.

 

[Ziggurat]

When a business is showing extraordinary performance there are three possibilities:

1. It's just a really good business
2. The figures are lies
3. Criminal shenanigans are occuring-- for instance, moneylaundering

I wouldn't trust Musk futher than I could throw one of his miraculous rescue submarines.

You forgot one that applies to Tesla:
4. The business is heavily government-subsidized

One could argue that should be a subset of 3 as shenanigans, but it's not technically illegal.

 

[angrysoba]

Musk is getting annoyed with the impersonators….

 

[angrysoba]

We could, of course, say something like “if only there were a system for validating someone’s identity” but of course he might say the impersonators prove it doesn’t work.

The trouble is most people can figure out pretty quickly who is Elon Musk, and who is impersonating him, but he is going to ditch the only system that is supposed to cut down on that.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

We could, of course, say something like “if only there were a system for validating someone’s identity” but of course he might say the impersonators prove it doesn’t work.

The trouble is most people can figure out pretty quickly who is Elon Musk, and who is impersonating him, but he is going to ditch the only system that is supposed to cut down on that.

Yeah, I find that the Musk impersonators make sense at least some of the time.

 

[alfaniner]

This has been kind of fun to follow today. First Valerie Bertinelly (and maybe others) engaged her already-awarded Blue Check Mark to change her handle to Elon Musk (@wolfiesMom) and make a few pro-blue comments.

She Trended for a while, and Musk came up with the restriction noted above (no unspecified parody accounts). Kathy Griffin had her Musk handle for a very short time until she got Suspended (read: banned). The backlash is delicious. ow she's Trending.

 

[Puppycow]

So his "bull in a china shop" approach may have been too hasty?

Twitter delaying $8 blue checks until after Election Day — as some fired workers are asked back: reports

Delaying the $8 blue checks for a few more days doesn't seem like a big deal, but:

Dozens of laid off workers were asked back because some were cut by mistake and others were terminated before management realized their work and experience are potentially valuable to help build new features Musk wants for the site, according to a Bloomberg report, which cited two people familiar with the move.

Why does this feel like something out of Dilbert to me?

Boss idea: I know, let's fire half the employees and tell the other half to do twice as much work for the same pay. Doesn't matter which half, just pick names out of a hat.

 

[GlennB]

So his "bull in a china shop" approach may have been too hasty?

Delaying the $8 blue checks for a few more days doesn't seem like a big deal, but:

Why does this feel like something out of Dilbert to me?

Boss idea: I know, let's fire half the employees and tell the other half to do twice as much work for the same pay. Doesn't matter which half, just pick names out of a hat.

Call in Ratbert, he'll sort it out pdq.

 

[shemp]

Musk is getting annoyed with the impersonators….

Like a thin-skinned nine-year-old. "My big brother's gonna beat you up!"

 

[shemp]

So his "bull in a china shop" approach may have been too hasty?

Twitter delaying $8 blue checks until after Election Day — as some fired workers are asked back: reports

Delaying the $8 blue checks for a few more days doesn't seem like a big deal, but:



Why does this feel like something out of Dilbert to me?

Boss idea: I know, let's fire half the employees and tell the other half to do twice as much work for the same pay. Doesn't matter which half, just pick names out of a hat.

They should tell him to double their pay or **** off!

 

[newyorkguy]

Twitter employee sleeping on floor of office?

 

[Babbylonian]

It's fun watching this worthless twit realize that more people think he's a piece of **** rather than real-life Tony Stark.

 

[dudalb]

I looked at Tesla's financials with another student the other day and was absolutely astounded. Their sales are growing at insane rates for a company of that size--they were up 60% Y/Y in 2021 and it looks like they will almost hit that in 2022. Their margins are terrific and not narrowing. They will of course run into the law of big numbers eventually, but for now they are not kicking ass and taking names only because once they get done kicking ass there are no names left to take.

That still does not change the fact that Musk knows nothing about running a Social Media company, and is making a fool of himself with Twitter.
I am so sick ot this whole Musk is a total genius who can do no wrong BS,
He is a excellent argument for a CEO to fall in love with getting his name in the news is ,in the end, bad.

 

[arthwollipot]

I'd like to know who's saying that Musk is a total genius who can do no wrong.

 

[Samson]

I think his aim is to be a benevolent dictator.

 

[Filippo Lippi]

I'd like to know who's saying that Musk is a total genius who can do no wrong.

There are fan boys, there is rumoured to be an army of them, but they aren't on this thread. I wonder if the scales are falling from their eyes?

 

[catsmate]

A subjective observation I made a long time ago, and has been true so far at least in my experience, is that the worst kind of PHB for a programmer isn't one who's just an MBA who never even had a home computer. That one might actually know how to delegate and other sane business practices. The absolute worst one is actually one who did some programming 30 years ago on some tiny scale command-line project, and was overestimating his competence back then. That's the kind who'll get ideas like that you're just wasting his time by applying some patterns instead of writing the 'hairball' quick-and-dirty thing he was doing back then, or not working as fast as he thinks he was (and actually wasn't) back then, or various other such.

Like, back then he'd estimate he needs only a day tops for something, end up needing a week because it wasn't as simple as he thought (e.g., because he ends up needing to fix all the bugs and edge cases he bungled on that first day), spend a couple more days total over the next year ironing out the bugs, and think that yeah, but he had an excuse. Fast forward 30 years, and he thinks he could do it in a couple of hours (since he no longer has any way to test it, his self-evaluation only goes up), you want 4 days, that means you're some slacker.

Of course, it's not a proper study, so I could be wrong. But that's been my subjective impression.

It meshes with my experience and the Dunning-Kruger effect.

About fifteen years ago I had a junior member of my team (I was SAing) on a project complain to the lead PM that I'd allocated far too much time for a certain aspect of the project. So I dumped that block on him...