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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by izzydata on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:44PM (#33552015)
I think blindly firing employees with low code counts is an objectively bad decision that ignores a lot of nuance and likely lost a lot of great engineers to companies that will respect them.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by the_doctah on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:42PM (#33553001)
Is there any evidence that people were fired based on LoC?
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by fragmede on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:28PM (#33553661)
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by e40 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:50PM (#33552147)
The idea that all lines of code are equal (in difficulty) is so absurd as to (in my memory) have been never discussed on HN before. Everyone here knows it. How could Elon not?
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by bitcharmer on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#33553451)
I've heard this before but never backed by any reputable source.

Mind sharing where you got that from?