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by kweingar 4y ago
I’m not comparing the features of iOS Safari and Chrome on Android. I’m just saying they approach the release schedule differently, like the exec said in the email.
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by kweingar 4y ago
It is different though, at least to the consumer. Among my iPhone-owning friends, it is common to hear “they didn’t add X to Safari in iOS 16 but I hope they will in iOS 17” or “did you watch the iOS 16 promos? They’re adding X to Safari.”
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by kweingar 4y ago
> within a generation or two Not sure I agree. A generation or two is eons in tech. In that timeframe there will likely be another massive paradigm shift that totally washes away today’s thinking about phones, communication, etc.
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by kweingar 4y ago
It’s less politics and more his management style. I do not admire bosses who force their reports to work nights and weekends because of some wild, off-the-cuff promise that now needs to be fulfilled instantly. I do not admire bosses who tel
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by kweingar 4y ago
Someone should document all of the strident defense of Musk recently. If Twitter does not succeed, my guess is that many of them will attribute it to anything other than Musk’s management. Some ideas for that story might be: - Elon never ha
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by kweingar 4y ago
Even if the public square analogy held, wouldn’t that be an even better argument for federation? Do people really want the “global public square” to be controlled by one man, or even a publicly traded company?
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by kweingar 4y ago
Musk also said we’ll have people on Mars by 2022. Forgive me if I don’t take his plans for twitter at face value.
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by kweingar 4y ago
The fact that so much of this conversation has turned into “well he has the legal right to do this, even if it’s bad” shows how far standards have fallen.
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by kweingar 4y ago
I applaud you for being honest in a way that many commenters aren’t: you are just happy to see people you don’t like being punished. People have been embarrassing themselves trying not to directly say this (“actually making engineers print
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by kweingar 4y ago
Why is that important to remember? I rarely see this sentiment when it’s anybody else under discussion. When articles about outrageous corporate behavior are shared on here, I never see “well if this is what the shareholders want, they own
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by kweingar 4y ago
One thing I’m surprised to see such little commentary on is the fact that Musk violated California’s WARN Act by not providing appropriate notice of layoffs.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> The great engineers are inspired by this leadership. It’s like fresh oxygen. They have purpose. I’m sure the great engineers at Twitter were inspired by the order to print out all of their recent commits on sheets of paper and then pro
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by kweingar 4y ago
How dumb do you have to be to put stuff like that in writing? It’s just ammunition for a lawsuit.
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by kweingar 4y ago
I’d imagine that these companies really do need this headcount. Think about how many relationships they need to manage.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Ahh, this makes sense to me. I have been accused of looking at this entirely through the lens of hating Musk, but I imagine that many are looking at this entirely through the lens of hating Twitter. Pretty short-sighted imo. My opinion abou
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by kweingar 4y ago
Elon has a fascinating ability to make people look at things from his point of view. Suppose the story was something like “Jeff Bezos acquires company, immediately slashes workforce, maneuvers to avoid paying severance, reportedly forces en
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by kweingar 4y ago
There are laws that restrict firing someone to avoid a payout, at least in some states. Not sure if it applies to stock vesting. From what I understand, the main goal is to prevent an employer from firing someone at e.g. 19 years 11 months
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by kweingar 4y ago
> they were threatening to leave in advance and then decided they'd rather just stay in their cushy jobs in the hopes that Musk would change his mind. I imagine that at this point, many are staying until they get fired so they can c
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by kweingar 4y ago
I am pretty confident that most developers would take significantly longer to gather and organize all of their code, make sure that everything is in the correct order for presentation, and print it out on paper. It would probably take me se
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by kweingar 4y ago
That’s true. Maybe I misread your comment, but it sounded like you were saying that the reason there cannot be stock grants is because Twitter is private. The reason that there cannot be stock grants is because Elon happens to own all the s
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by kweingar 4y ago
Until recently I worked at a private company with a stock vesting plan.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> If I was a Twitter engineer, I'd be trying to figure out how to maximize my severance package right about now. Absolutely. This is how I would spend every minute of my workdays until the eventual layoff. It’s a degrading experienc
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by kweingar 4y ago
Paper is instant until you say “can you show me that part of the code that handles X” or “where is this function defined” and then it’s multiple orders of magnitudes slower. (Editing to say, you could also just tell the engineers “hey make
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by kweingar 4y ago
The most bizarre aspect of this was when Twitter engineers were told to print out their code on paper. There is literally no good reason to do that. At best it is staggering incompetence. At worst it is an intentionally pointless and expens
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by kweingar 4y ago
I would make these kinds of comments about any CEO who comes into a large tech company and makes the engineers print out diffs on paper. It is ridiculous, and frankly I would be willing to wager that fewer people would defend this practic
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by kweingar 4y ago
I noticed this on the App Store the other day. I searched for YouTube and the first result was TikTok.
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by kweingar 4y ago
The stock price affects Meta employees, who might not want to sacrifice large chunks of TC on this bet.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> Gambling app ads have even started showing up beneath apps meant to help users recover from a gambling addiction I don't need Christianity to know that this shouldn't be happening
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by kweingar 4y ago
> microsoft is about to destroy themselves with copilot (the damages have already been done) How do you figure that copilot will destroy MS? It’s one feature of one product. Even if they get sued big time, I wouldn’t imagine this would p
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by kweingar 4y ago
> every other product you try to bring to market ends in failure Pretty difficult to square >$250B of annual revenue with “all of your products are failures” and “can’t think of a product that people actually want”

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