Elon Musk

that is how you do programming tbf, you google why doesnt my code work, where did i go wrong in life

google has a lot of products some of the most used products in the world, they have prob the most extensive infrastructure in the world or at least top two, they have researchers, they make their own programming languages, theyve got frameworks (of course), they do artificial intelligence (not a real thing), theyve prob got some guys who just do math (not programming), idk, my point i dont what they all get up to over there, someone is in charge of the google doodle, maybe a whole team

That seems like a fun, low pressure programming gig, but idk, maybe after a few years the pressure of coming up with new doodles is intense.

The most recent doodle was about jollof rice, so I guess if you run out of ideas you could just do your lunch.

there was an article a while ago about people whos companies had been acquired by google and as part of the deal they have to work for google for a while but then google ends up not really having anything for them to do so they come to work and just like hang out at googles cafes all day

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i dont understand watching instructional programming videos you cant cut and paste and you have to sit there while the guy goes uh ok now im gonna uh open a new tab, more theoretical ones are good tho cause you can watch them go isnt that interesting then move on with your life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Google promotion culture incentivises engineers to build things, regardless of whether that thing is needed or whether there already is a thing that does the same thing. You can use up a lot of engineers that way.

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/u9nwleGxHK

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) October 3, 2022

Anyway yes, all the big tech companies have people doing all sorts of things - some are the core activities that make money, some are risky expansion bets, some are projects that should probably have been killed years ago.

For sure I imagine a lot of these giant tech companies are basically giant R&D farms. Buncha Oompa Loompas.

there was an article a while ago about people whos companies had been acquired by google and as part of the deal they have to work for google for a while but then google ends up not really having anything for them to do so they come to work and just like hang out at googles cafes all day

wonder if elon read the rest and vest article lag8n mentioned and thought everybody at twitter was just resting and vesting

https://www.insider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7

Google promotion culture incentivises engineers to build things, regardless of whether that thing is needed or whether there already is a thing that does the same thing. You can use up a lot of engineers that way.

― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:47 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

building something that no one uses and getting a promotion for it, best of all worlds

Have several friends who worked for Google for a decade or so in the early years, they’re linguists and were mostly working on translation products— now one of them runs one of the most important arts spaces in LA. He sometimes talks about how he made a ton of cash and then noped out at the right time.

I'm just glad to realize that upper mississippi sh@kedown is Matt.

heh

👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @Teslarati

— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) November 5, 2022

I wasn’t quite resting and vesting but I wasn’t working very hard I’ll be honest

man tweeting isnt about working hard its just about making a few tweets

I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don't expect that to be mutual in this moment...or ever…and I understand. 💙

— jack (@jack) November 5, 2022

Sorry about your new stepdad, kids. I’ll send you a Christmas card!

It is perfect that the official voice of Twitter is now "Estonian phishing email." pic.twitter.com/GN6hqazETW

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) November 5, 2022

Among the first "peasants" to attempt to sign up for the new paid verified checkmark: conspiracy influencer QAnon John. pic.twitter.com/dEtB2GkD9P

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) November 5, 2022

@tpvjohn is suspended.

no idea if the screenshot is fake, or it's a recent suspension.

xp lol suspended

This article is terrifying, gotta say.

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

ok but it's it's just weird-nerd elon cultism with the polarities reversed: no actually he's the most brilliant man in history BUT EVIL

apu taking a bullet meme

This guy is so fucking clueless, e.g., this doesn’t make any sense to anyone that knows about this stuff:

“ This would need to become a formal Internet standard,”

It’s a fucking website man. Relax.

shocked to discover this inherited wealth waster is clueless

i didn't even mean to be mean, i've had a couple, this whole thread should be one post that says USELESS CUNT

To be fair, if you’d told 1980s anti-apartheid teenage nephew that in 40 years the richest man in the world would be a white South African asshole, it wouldn’t have terribly surprised me.

Nephew? That said “teenage me” when I typed it. Oh well.

lol i like the idea of referring to oneself as nephew

lol i like the idea of referring to oneself as nephew

damn is this place breaking too

Who he?

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:40 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh happy days...

oh that dave troy guy is a far gone conspiracy nut. I read a very long thing he wrote about putin and some spiritual shit and it was like ... ok, I liked robert anton wilson too, but give it a rest.

also, bluesky is in fact interesting, but I'm not entirely certain how it's different from mastadon.

damn is this place breaking too

Twitter will have an edit button before ilx does.

Oh dear

Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022

how did he know

i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022

— wint (@dril) August 24, 2017

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. .

― wk, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:15 AM (nine years ago)

More from former tweep: They fired EVERYBODY on two of the teams that were working on things they want to launch. https://t.co/C2JtityJHV pic.twitter.com/ZfrIZNAe9n

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) November 6, 2022

So close. There are actually about eight of those tiny little pieces holding everything up, and yes, all those teams got slashed. https://t.co/vWhjNn5bpY

— Jim Redmond (@jredmond) November 4, 2022

Oh dear

Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao good work everyone

always good to demonstarte a new hellish workplace culture and give someone their salary for 3 months before renegotiating their pay.

if I were one of those people I would have to be highly financially incentivised to come back and do a single thing. Hopefully they don't have some clause in their termination contracts (which dictate their last day is actually 60 days from now) that compels them to.

Scoop: all of Musk’s companies use MS Teams for comms, where new channels are private by default.

When software engineers from Tesla, Boring and SpaceX came in to Twitter a week ago, they created Slack channels to communicate amongst themselves.

Several channels were public.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 5, 2022

Twitter just sent me this tweet as a recommendation via iPhone notification

this is how it appears lol https://t.co/BExIVxHL6x pic.twitter.com/p7BIWpMlGi

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 6, 2022

Full-scale Hyperloop Testing has begun pic.twitter.com/cDUD1PEfkD

— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) November 5, 2022