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... which likely means he's gotten rid everyone who worked on particularly challenging things, like security, privacy, performance, & reliability. - @mcmillen

mikkergp 4y ago
This would be amazing (the bad kind) and also, I’m quite skeptical.
dbbk 4y ago
The whole accessibility team has been fired, which would make sense... probably not huge LoC, but very crucial work nonetheless
- luckylion 4y ago
  Twitter had an accessibility team? Their website is a nightmare, who were they making it accessible for?
  - jiggawatts 4y ago
    This reminds me of the hundreds of similar, highly paid positions at Netflix. Netflix allows 4 (four!) subtitle languages to be selected from by users, essentially saying "fuck you" to anyone who would like subtitles in the other 50-70 languages that are available. It's the opposite of "accessibility". Someone at Netflix came up with this system. A designer designed the UI for it. A programmer coded this up. Someone budgeted for it, tracked it, and approved it for go-live. Wait, it goes on: Someone had to write the tech support page for this, train support staff to lie to customers and say that this is for "copyright reasons" (it isn't), and so on. Literally hundreds of people had to be involved to actively reduce accessibility. Managers like Elon look at organisations like this and see nothing but fat that can be cut to make the organisation leaner and more capable.
    - andsoitis 4y ago
      > Netflix allows 4 (four!) subtitle languages to be selected from by users, essentially saying "fuck you" to anyone who would like subtitles in the other 50-70 languages that are available. I think you're judging a little harshly without appreciating the nuance that's gone into deciding what to surface to users: See https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798
  - jareds 4y ago
    As a Voiceover user on IOS the app worked well enough. I haven't used it for a while though, ever since I discovered profootballtalk.com had an rss feed I had no need to use twitter to keep up on NFL news.
joeys7 4y ago
What’s their source for this? I can believe Elon being that stupid but still just seems like hearsay right now.
- mbklein 4y ago
  Especially since Elon himself tweeted in 2019, in response to someone asking him how many LoC went into a Tesla: “The less code, the better! 1 point for adding a line of code, but 2 points for deleting a line. Bloatware is the devil.”

mikkergp 4y ago

This would be amazing (the bad kind) and also, I’m quite skeptical.

dbbk 4y ago

The whole accessibility team has been fired, which would make sense... probably not huge LoC, but very crucial work nonetheless

luckylion 4y ago
Twitter had an accessibility team? Their website is a nightmare, who were they making it accessible for?
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  This reminds me of the hundreds of similar, highly paid positions at Netflix. Netflix allows 4 (four!) subtitle languages to be selected from by users, essentially saying "fuck you" to anyone who would like subtitles in the other 50-70 languages that are available. It's the opposite of "accessibility". Someone at Netflix came up with this system. A designer designed the UI for it. A programmer coded this up. Someone budgeted for it, tracked it, and approved it for go-live. Wait, it goes on: Someone had to write the tech support page for this, train support staff to lie to customers and say that this is for "copyright reasons" (it isn't), and so on. Literally hundreds of people had to be involved to actively reduce accessibility. Managers like Elon look at organisations like this and see nothing but fat that can be cut to make the organisation leaner and more capable.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    > Netflix allows 4 (four!) subtitle languages to be selected from by users, essentially saying "fuck you" to anyone who would like subtitles in the other 50-70 languages that are available. I think you're judging a little harshly without appreciating the nuance that's gone into deciding what to surface to users: See https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798
- jareds 4y ago
  As a Voiceover user on IOS the app worked well enough. I haven't used it for a while though, ever since I discovered profootballtalk.com had an rss feed I had no need to use twitter to keep up on NFL news.

joeys7 4y ago

What’s their source for this? I can believe Elon being that stupid but still just seems like hearsay right now.

mbklein 4y ago
Especially since Elon himself tweeted in 2019, in response to someone asking him how many LoC went into a Tesla: “The less code, the better! 1 point for adding a line of code, but 2 points for deleting a line. Bloatware is the devil.”