Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
by valleyer on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:43AM
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TFA says that the code was to be printed to show to Musk, not to these middle managers.
Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
by freemrkt8 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:07AM
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Anxiety and a lot of gossip can make people do dumb things, like make non-technical middle managers issue stupid edicts because they don’t know about git logs.
I’ve worked for orgs where engineer head count alone pushed 250 people. The number of people in power with no technical skills managing technical workers was a huge waste of time.
Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
by ShamelessC on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:48AM
(#33382522)
You seem to be responding to points not made by the article (or the person you’re responding to).
Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
by freemrkt8 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:03AM
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The article was observed, not the events. I know PR people who plant such articles for profit, all the details are vague enough to seem possible. Even the supposed pictures of eng folk with printed code could be in on the gag. Don’t forget CNBC got trolled by a guy faking being an ex Twitter staffer. Why not troll the public who are far more obsessed with office life than doing real things for others?
Why bother taking the article seriously? It’s unverifiable. I see no reason to give it a sincere discussion.
Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
by ShamelessC on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:42AM
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Context, mostly. This extra discussion in your reply is actually fair and suitable as a top-level comment.
I’d like to see Twitter fire the cottage industry of professional non-contributors that has seeped into tech for the pay.
Employees like the TikToking “Facebook PM” who showed off 20 mins of emailing for work and the rest of the day branching/lunching with their crew need to go.