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> Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do. And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written", do believe that is an accu

> Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do. And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written", do believe that is an accurate measure of how good a programmer is at what they do?

zmxz 4y ago
I find it unbelievable how apparently smart people are disconnected from context. If you genuinely believe he did that to measure performance then I've nothing to tell you. I understood that as an exercise to prove that Twitter employs engineers who don't write a line of code for months and it turned out to be true. It was an easy way to weed out lazy, entitled or otherwise useless employees who are just a waste of money. Which is how Twitter managed to get into such a bad financial position - wasting money for unnecessary expenses.
Turing_Machine 4y ago
> And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written" I've seen a lot of people making that claim, but no actual evidence that he did that. You do understand that "evaluating someone's competence by reading their code" is not necessarily the same as "evaluating someone's competence by counting the number of lines", right?
- mcphage 4y ago
  > I've seen a lot of people making that claim, but no actual evidence that he did that. Same here—I've seen it reported, but I don't know if it's true. However, upstream of me also claimed: > Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do. Which as far as I can see is just as much a claim made without evidence—all the evidence that I have seen about this has at least indicated the opposite, even if it's not crystal clear.
  - zmxz 4y ago
    > Which as far as I can see is just as much a claim made without evidence—all the evidence that I have seen about this has at least indicated the opposite, even if it's not crystal clear. The evidence you're after is called being the richest man on the planet. He didn't achieve that by creating everything he sells by himself and by mistreating his employees. Some really, really brilliant people work for him and they thrive. You, of course, are free to choose to believe what you want or to be objective for a second. It's trivial to hate someone, especially when you're fed negative news about them, but just give yourself the freedom to think about Musk objectively. Disclaimer: I'm not his fan, but I'm honestly tired of self-proclaimed moral verticals judging the guy and every step he makes, not giving him a possibility of just being human and making errors along the way, as if they'd be able to do anything better if the places were swapped. It's disgusting. If you were in his shoes and if an engineer who can't make an Android app to work in this day and age belittles you publicly, you'd fire him too.

zmxz 4y ago

I find it unbelievable how apparently smart people are disconnected from context. If you genuinely believe he did that to measure performance then I've nothing to tell you. I understood that as an exercise to prove that Twitter employs engineers who don't write a line of code for months and it turned out to be true. It was an easy way to weed out lazy, entitled or otherwise useless employees who are just a waste of money. Which is how Twitter managed to get into such a bad financial position - wasting money for unnecessary expenses.

Turing_Machine 4y ago

> And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written" I've seen a lot of people making that claim, but no actual evidence that he did that. You do understand that "evaluating someone's competence by reading their code" is not necessarily the same as "evaluating someone's competence by counting the number of lines", right?

mcphage 4y ago
> I've seen a lot of people making that claim, but no actual evidence that he did that. Same here—I've seen it reported, but I don't know if it's true. However, upstream of me also claimed: > Elon's not someone who'll fire a person who is good at what they do. Which as far as I can see is just as much a claim made without evidence—all the evidence that I have seen about this has at least indicated the opposite, even if it's not crystal clear.
- zmxz 4y ago
  > Which as far as I can see is just as much a claim made without evidence—all the evidence that I have seen about this has at least indicated the opposite, even if it's not crystal clear. The evidence you're after is called being the richest man on the planet. He didn't achieve that by creating everything he sells by himself and by mistreating his employees. Some really, really brilliant people work for him and they thrive. You, of course, are free to choose to believe what you want or to be objective for a second. It's trivial to hate someone, especially when you're fed negative news about them, but just give yourself the freedom to think about Musk objectively. Disclaimer: I'm not his fan, but I'm honestly tired of self-proclaimed moral verticals judging the guy and every step he makes, not giving him a possibility of just being human and making errors along the way, as if they'd be able to do anything better if the places were swapped. It's disgusting. If you were in his shoes and if an engineer who can't make an Android app to work in this day and age belittles you publicly, you'd fire him too.