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by deltree7 4y ago
Worldcom was 100% related to Tech Bubble. It was the quintessential poster boy (along with pets.com and Webvan).
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by deltree7 4y ago
They are only rehiring a handful. Stop spreading propoganda
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by deltree7 4y ago
How did you measure productivity?
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by deltree7 4y ago
I'll take any IC or low-level employee's productivity claim with a grain of salt. For a CEO, productivity is at a first order is operating margins. 99% of HNers have no clue how to calculate that (nor have the necessary data).
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by deltree7 4y ago
Yes, The Tech Rich people aren't the right people to work for Twitter / Elon Musk anyway. Now, it's mostly self-selecting people of believing in the mission/elon and people looking for hungry or success. Every industry w
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by deltree7 4y ago
While losing a ton of money during this process
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by deltree7 4y ago
Good Riddance
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by deltree7 4y ago
There is always a fresh supply of extremely bright engineers from Stanford/MIT/Berkeley and thousands of universities who will have trouble finding jobs in a hiring freeze environment and wouldn't mind working for a startup l
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by deltree7 4y ago
Musk was firing useless departments (DEI, Human Rights, Ethics, Communications) -- Mostly rent-seeking roles that has no place in startups. Musk also fired Engineers who weren't productive in the past two months. Musk has enough softwa
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by deltree7 4y ago
This is an out of touch comment, not understanding the supply / demand context. It's not only about layoffs, but not enough absorbing capacity for freshly printed Tech graduates the universities are churning out at the rate expect
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by deltree7 4y ago
Yes, just like Tesla, SpaceX, probably NeuraLink. That's how he motivates people
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by deltree7 4y ago
Can you give me an example of this unicorn company which isn't facing cash-crunch and burn rate?
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by deltree7 4y ago
This is exactly what I mean by 99% HN dev cohort completely out of touch with reality. Twitter is absolutely a startup. They are trying to a) find product market fit with a new vision b) Have negative cash-flow, so everyone has to workhard
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by deltree7 4y ago
There will be plenty of devs desperate for work as large companies cuts a significant portion of the work. Bottomline, the last time tech truly saw a recession and slow-down was in 2001. So, the entire dev cohort has never seen economic con
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by deltree7 4y ago
You can walk away when you declare bankruptcy. Lot of people in 2008 just did that
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by deltree7 4y ago
How do we know that you aren't missing a piece of the puzzle that others are/may see? It's a genuine question. A lot of experts have a lot of blind spots especially around prediction, rate of growth, potential, vision. Histor
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by deltree7 4y ago
Geez, I'm sorry dude, you are really clueless about 10x programming. MapReduce was a revolutionary paper which allowed Google to scale using cheap hard-drives and compute instead of paying Oracle licenses. If you can't understand
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by deltree7 4y ago
You are just digging your hole deeper and deeper dude https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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by deltree7 4y ago
Yeah, there were ads in Newspapers and Magazines too that you paid money. There is an entire generation of entitled people who grew up in 0% VC-funded businesses who are accustomed to getting great products for free who have to adjust to th
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by deltree7 4y ago
Jeff / Sanjay weren't L11 when they transformed Google. Also that's precisely my point. Even though you are an L5, you'll never design an Android or a Spanner or a Dremel system or a Self-Driving System from scratch. SWE
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by deltree7 4y ago
Elon is not a software engineer. He also has created nearly $1.5 Trillion of Market Value if you are looking for numbers.
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by deltree7 4y ago
Again, Can you name one law which ties deficit spending to GDP? Newsflash, We did deficit spending when ratio was 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 1.0, 1.2 We will do deficit spending when ratio was 1.4, 1.6 or 2
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by deltree7 4y ago
Once again show me an economic policy that is tied to GDP
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by deltree7 4y ago
You can easily make a claim that Google is a $1.4T firm vs may be a $40 Billion Twitter-like also ran if it weren't for this https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
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by deltree7 4y ago
Then you don't understand Elon and making the same mistake of evaluating him superficially. People like Walter Isaacson have a better opinion about him
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by deltree7 4y ago
That's fine. Elon doesn't want you to work for him. There are people who build multiple successful companies and then there are who prioritize well-being and pick some weird hill to die on.
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by deltree7 4y ago
can you name one, please?
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by deltree7 4y ago
Nobody makes any policy decisions based on GDP. It's just a proxy of economic activity. Nobody ever said, We (won't) need policy X because we are at Y GDP. Companies make decision based on supply/demand. So, this whole resear
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by deltree7 4y ago
Well to be honest, Musk and his team looked at quantity/quality of code produced in the last 60 days, with hopefully a 10 minute chance to defend their lack of quantity/quality. Lots of coasters in big companies can get with good
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by deltree7 4y ago
A knowledge worker's productivity can easily (and provably ) range from -10x to +1000x. So, it's much easier to prove in the court of law that the ranges are justified. Dude who created the React Framework is always 100x valuable

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