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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by bcrosby95 on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:48PM (#33659883)
All personal accounts I've heard of from people that work there are yes, he does know about engineering and is incredibly smart.

But that doesn't mean you know how to run a social media company, and trying to pivot Twitter's work culture on a dime is going to be chaotic.

FWIW I think he's a toxic asshole, but that doesn't mean he's an idiot.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by wittycardio on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:52PM (#33661073)
He might not be an idiot but that doesn't mean he knows how software works either
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by dont__panic on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:38PM (#33661765)
Smart and idiot might not be mutually exclusive. I've known a lot of smart people who can act idiotic in certain circumstances. Elon could be very smart when it comes to engineering... but idiotic when it comes to running Twitter.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by rich_sasha on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:39PM (#33661779)
OK, so how do I square that up with a request to document programming prowess with screenshots?
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by fragmede on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:05PM (#33663048)
That he doesn't have any other way to look at any code because he doesn't have a Phabricator account
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by foldr on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:19AM (#33668864)
He's unable to receive ASCII text strings over email?
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by HDThoreaun on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:47PM (#33663743)
He's not actually trying to document programming prowess with screenshots. They've already fired everyone they want to fire, this is some sort of "welcome to twitter 2.0" ritual
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by user_named on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:35PM (#33664515)
He lied about having a physics degree and he can't code. He knows nothing about engineering.
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