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No, the problem is that it is UN-believable. Some tech reporters did a double-take when they heard it from others, and were unwilling to report on this until th
by papito 4y ago
No, the problem is that it is UN-believable. Some tech reporters did a double-take when they heard it from others, and were unwilling to report on this until they got multiple corroborations of this madness.
In addition, Tesla engineers were probing Twitter for "top talent", and also involved in reviewing the printed out on paper code.
If I were at Twitter, I would be deeply humiliated by this treatment. A bunch of Tesla "stars" rolling in hard to rate the "Twitter clowns". Fuck. That.
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- rsynnott 4y agoI don't think it's _literally_ unbelievable; notably, IBM used to use lines of code written for compensation purposes back in the 80s. It would indicate that whoever was making the decisions was pretty incompetent, though; even IBM eventually figured out that it was a terrible idea.
- papito 4y agoWell, first of all, if the Tesla engineers are so brilliant, how come no one brought up the fact that LOC is a useless and even a bad metric? And print out? Printing code was acceptable and common in the 80s and even all the way into the late 90s. Who prints out code nowadays? Is there even a button to do that in most IDEs? Don't know, never cared to look. What kind of Mickey Mouse operation is this? It's like they literally pulled managers from the 1987 GE to do this "merger".
- rsynnott 4y ago> if the Tesla engineers are so brilliant Honestly, I'm not sure why anyone would expect them to be. AIUI the pay isn't great, and upper management is... well, see his behaviour on Twitter, so I'd kind of expect anyone who was any good to just leave.