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Is this why Twitter is down? Their Engineer Speaks
- jrockway 18y agoWow, a picture of someone's tweet talking about pot. This is what Hacker News has come to?
- evdawg 18y agoAw cmon it's pretty funny. I guess Alex just isn't as cool as the rest of Twitter's staff... ;)
- menloparkbum 18y agoI used to work at a startup where everyone was always baked and we also had serious quality control problems.
- icky 18y ago> I used to work at a startup where everyone was always baked and we also had serious quality control problems. Problems with the quality of the software, or the pot? ;)
- josefresco 18y agoCall me naive but I'm a bit surprised to hear that a company with $15 million plus allows "weed-talk" around the office. I'm not saying it's wrong or bad or the reason why Twitter has issues, just surprising.
- menloparkbum 18y agoyou're naive - silicon valley is on drugs.
- fallentimes 18y agoand it's also how the Twitter idea came to fruition
- ssharp 18y agoI was thinking the same thing. Guy 1: "Hey man, whatif I knew what everyone was doing right now?" Guy 2: "Yeah man, like God" Guy 1: "No, I mean EVERYONE like RIGHT NOW". Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp.
- jonknee 18y agoIt's in San Francisco. They probably buy from the VCs.
- stcredzero 18y agoOh, so that's what they mean by "seeding!"
- jrockway 18y agoI assume most everyone would quit if someone got fired/reprimanded for talking about weed. It's real life, not high school.
- jamesbritt 18y agoWeed? No biggie. It's when horse or crack are the main topics you may have to worry.
- gojomo 18y agoIt might also just be a running joke, like "what kind of crack are you smoking?"
- extantproject 18y ago... but then this entire submission would be overblown! I can't imagine it!
- swombat 18y agoSorry to burst your bubble, but I'll add that a large proportion of bankers, traders, and other high-powered executives that make a lot of money (some of them make $15m a year) are on drugs a lot of the time. They don't talk about it and it's usually not weed (more like peruvian marching powder), but it's there.
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- ssharp 18y agoRuby on Rails on Reefer
- wallflower 18y agoTwitter headquarters. "I've been working on the RAILROAD!" (Chorus x10)
- nirmal 18y agoThere's no reason to assume he was at Twitter HQ when he sent this out. He could be pretty much anywhere in SF. :)
- jakewolf 18y agoIt's always snowing on Wall Street.