Elon Musk: Smartest Guy in The World or Complete Clown?

[axebiker]

It's funny...in a way....the world was able to function before Twitter...and now?


#perspective

[jackattack]

It's funny...in a way....the world was able to function before Twitter...and now?


#perspective

The world used to function without most technology, such as the internet, televisions, telephones, internal combustion… roof overhead.

[bobz]

When’s the last time any programmer or developer was working on production-level code and just sat down and wrote like fifty lines of code from scratch? Does that ever happen?

I know enough about that sort of thing to know I will never know enough about it, but my dev friends basically say they copy paste a lot more than people would believe. And Google how to do stuff, etc.

Depends. If you're writing some back-end DB access code, or doing a UI event handler, or whatever, then sure, maybe you're copy-pasting a standard structure that gets filled in with the details, and also following well-worn patterns with the fresh code you do write. And I guess that's all some programmers ever do. But if you're writing code supporting a proprietary algorithm (not to mention the algo implementation itself), then you're likely writing a ton of very original code, though probably following some patterns here and there from other stuff you've seen or done ("just sat down"? yes, but maybe after days or more diagramming it out).

[jono]

He's not asking to understand their code. He's telling them to bring by a prop they can use for him to look smart. Then he'll evaluate their ability to see how smart he is and to explain what they understand about his smartness and his surprising insights.

[gaijin]

Meanwhile 99.9% of the world is passing by this thread.

WTF did you you just say?

You’re so proud. And you’re saying nothing.


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[SumJongGuy]

I actually had a bizarre dream last night about going shopping at WalMart with Elon Musk. He was super agitated because people there didn't recognize him.

[boltonoutlaw]

Nothing new from me, just piling on.

https://www.vox.com/recode/23450058/...rsal-flip-flop

Greatest hits:

Flip-flop: Buying Twitter
How long before he changed his mind: Three months (from bid to officially trying to get out of the bid)

Flip-flop: Adding check marks to Twitter Blue
How long before he changed his mind: Two days (from launch to suspension)

Flip-flop: Gray check marks
How long before he changed his mind: Less than a day (from rollout to disappearing)

Flip-flop: Firing Twitter employees
How long before he changed his mind: Two days (from firing to calling some back)

Flip-flop: Parody accounts
How long before he changed his mind: About a week (from “comedy!” to “it’s not funny when you make fun of me”)

Flip-flop: Not turning Twitter into a “free-for-all hellscape”
How long before he changed his mind: A few hours (from tweet to delete)

Flip-flop: Remote work
How long before he changed his mind: One week

[TahoeJ]

Depends. If you're writing some back-end DB access code, or doing a UI event handler, or whatever, then sure, maybe you're copy-pasting a standard structure that gets filled in with the details, and also following well-worn patterns with the fresh code you do write. And I guess that's all some programmers ever do. But if you're writing code supporting a proprietary algorithm (not to mention the algo implementation itself), then you're likely writing a ton of very original code, though probably following some patterns here and there from other stuff you've seen or done ("just sat down"? yes, but maybe after days or more diagramming it out).

Yep. Copy and past coding is typically when a system is built around an existing infrastructure or CMS. If it's proprietary / custom then there's a ton of original coding work, which is most certainly the case for Twitter. Snippets might be copy and pasted but you still have to understand how to integrate that code - much in the same way lawyers copy and paste sections into legal documents and then make modifications.

[subtle plague]

Yep. Copy and past coding is typically when a system is built around an existing infrastructure or CMS. If it's proprietary / custom then there's a ton of original coding work, which is most certainly the case for Twitter. Snippets might be copy and pasted but you still have to understand how to integrate that code - much in the same way lawyers copy and paste sections into legal documents and then make modifications.

Maybe altasnob can dumb it down for us.

[jono]

You’re so proud. And you’re saying nothing.

This guy gets it.

[dunfree]

This guy gets it.

he’s got his pulse on virtue signaling on another social media site with objectively wrong “fact” like the other geezer did

hey nihilist old farts what times shuffleboard?

[KQ]

I will admit I've not read this thread. I do not like what I see when it comes to EM. I read one time that he said he father was a cruel man who made his life hell and with this Twitter take over it appears Elon is proving the old adage "the apple doesn't fall from from the tree" true.

Scott Galloway Sums Up Elon Musk's 'God Complex' In 2-Minute Viral Video

[SumJongGuy]

Very low in the EQ scale.. Like a 9 year old...

[J. Barron DeJong]

https://twitter.com/briannawu/status...IfME7tCXNgb99g

[mcski]

I lurv the guy that tweeted new business model: post your own copyrighted material from bot accounts, Sue, rinse, repeat.

Lulz

[SumJongGuy]

He didn't let Dotard back on because his rigged bot vote poll said so. He let Dotard back on because he wants the MAGADIOTS to like him and buy his "bulletproof" CyberTrucks.

[J. Barron DeJong]

He didn't let Dotard back on because his rigged bot vote poll said so. He let Dotard back on because he wants the MAGADIOTS to like him and buy his "bulletproof" CyberTrucks.

The Dotard doesn’t want back on.



https://twitter.com/conrad_hotdish/s...IfME7tCXNgb99g

[Buzzworthy]

Twitter 2.0 is now hiring.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/...ending-layoffs

[schuss]

A hilarious anecdote of why twitter is fucked from the ad buyer side - https://www.teamblind.com/post/i-tol...-week-4dnbo1Ft

[uglymoney]

Took the app off of my phone for now and after several days I don't miss it. Elon is a drama queen and he turned my feed into ads and the same tweets over and over from the same people.

I refresh and get the same posts. If you want to feed my addiction this isn't how.to do it. I waste enough time on these life sucking platforms.

Not that I have ever really understood the culture of Twitter beyond how awesome it is for getting instant updates on information. I'll keep my account while that lasts.

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[TahoeJ]

A hilarious anecdote of why twitter is fucked from the ad buyer side - https://www.teamblind.com/post/i-tol...-week-4dnbo1Ft

A lot of these folks are my clients and I'm hearing the same. Which is CRAZY right now considering the second half of november is the biggest ad stretch of the year.

[ex-powderbroker]

Deactivated, goodbye shitbird

[uglymoney]

123456

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[Supermoon]

A lot of these folks are my clients and I'm hearing the same. Which is CRAZY right now considering the second half of november is the biggest ad stretch of the year.

Yeah. This is what’s going to hurt them the most. Users they can get back, but Twitter ads were a borderline ROI benefit to begin with. I imagine a lot of advertisers won’t ever come back.

[Skistack]

A hilarious anecdote of why twitter is fucked from the ad buyer side - https://www.teamblind.com/post/i-tol...-week-4dnbo1Ft

Hey, that’s only 93,750 new verified user accounts!


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