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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by Mononokay on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:19PM (#16893898)
To be entirely fair, Musk is an engineer, so that in general wouldn't happen, I'd imagine.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by matte_black on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:57PM (#16894194)
He’s an engineer on paper, probably not in practice.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by Mononokay on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:42AM (#16894745)
He earned a degree in it, and seems to know what he's talking about.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by colordrops on Saturday April 21, 2018 @09:29PM (#16894280)
What evidence do you have of that?
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by matte_black on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:06PM (#16894358)
The word “probably” indicates uncertainty.

Therefore, there is no evidence, just suspicion he is not doing the actual engineering work himself.

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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by colordrops on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:33PM (#16894428)
OK, what reason do you have to suspect he is not doing the actual engineering work?
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by bkdonline on Sunday April 22, 2018 @01:40AM (#16894866)
He has a BS in physics.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by colordrops on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:35AM (#16895142)
And decades of experience building up engineering firms from almost nothing. Perhaps I'm in a different environment than you, but I know more than one top-tier engineer that didn't even graduate high school let alone get a 4 year degree in physics.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by matte_black on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:39AM (#16895738)
If someone has a computer science degree but never writes code are they a software engineer?
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by colordrops on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:18PM (#16897970)
Why are you under the presumption that he did no domain specific engineering at Tesla and SpaceX? And let's not go in circles and repeat your previous arguments please.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by matte_black on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:15PM (#16899510)
lack of any specific examples?
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