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Re:George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social me... by memish on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:18PM (#33725234)
It would be less weird if people would apply even the tiniest amount of good faith. But no, everyone is so eager to dunk on people trying to build things. All this is going to do is discourage him and others from being transparent and building in public. Everyone trying to tear George down for this comes off as completely miserable. It's fucking sad.

> haha of course you can’t ship this, which is why the “free work” comments are so odd.

> But if someone can build a half decent experience with no source and nothing, imagine what they’ll build with access. It’s who should be hired to build it in prod. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159546777671332249...

> Re: actually getting hired at Twitter, this is not a real interview, only do it if you find it fun! https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159529448151060480...

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Re:George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social me... by Apocryphon on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:26PM (#33725314)
But what is the point of this entire exercise? Was he actually asking for React help? Is he actually hiring an intern team? Did he just want to engage the community by presenting a technical challenge? Is he signaling that Twitter is going to open itself up and invite greater developer interaction? It's all very strange.

> All this is going to do is discourage him and others from being transparent and building in public.

He's a celebrity hacker, he's used to it. He is not fragile, judging by his public persona.

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Re:George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social me... by silisili on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:27PM (#33725321)
Do you have the backstory?

George was kinda fanboying over Musk's "work harder" memo. Someone kinda mocked him. He said fine I'll intern myself to prove my point.

So, Musk hires him apparently specifically to fix search.

Then George makes a post asking how to fix search, under the guise of hiring them(as an intern) to do it.

What is he bringing to the table at that point?

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Re:George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social me... by lm28469 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:41PM (#33725965)
> Everyone trying to tear George down for this comes off as completely miserable. It's fucking sad.

Still less sad and miserable than billionaire bootlickers calling other people sad and miserable

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Re:George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social me... by fzeroracer on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:45AM (#33729815)
He got hired to do a job. Rather than doing the job he was hired to do, he tried to farm out the job to someone else publicly, on Twitter.

This is the kind of incompetence you've said that Twitter is filled with. Why is it okay when it's George Hotz then?

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