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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think I would love to work in an environment like you describe, but my one experience in an environment like this before was that people really emphasize working hard over working smart. (Also, if I'm not allowed to push back agains
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One user responded basically asking is Twitter a tech company which is a totally fair question, I would propose that there's at least a decent chance that running Twitter solely like a tech company will lead to... challenges. And secon
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Sounds like everyone can work from home now, because he said only exceptional work is a passing grade. Finally the first piece of good news coming out of Twitter. Why didn’t he just start with this email rather than anonymously laying off
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wouldn’t think this would go anywhere, it seems like their primary argument is about time, when who cares about how much time he spends there of the stock is going up, but I wonder if they’ll make an argument about the state of the econom
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> use the existing site as a launchpoint for a wide range of new features I've lost track of what they're working on? I guess they're working on re-launching paid verification, but I think last I heard they were in a code
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I guess something I don't know about employment law, everyone says in a ~right to work~ (Correction: At-will employment state), you can fire someone for any reason, but can you lie about the reason? Do you have to be able to prove tha
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If Elon didn't want to be criticized, why would he buy Twitter? It seems to me the consequence of buying Twitter would be to make him the most criticized person on the planet! To me it would be like me drilling a hold into my boat so
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Tell me more about the internal strife these engineers created, I didn’t see that mentioned in the tweet thread. Maybe it will help me understand your position better.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> He has every right, within the confines of the law, to choose how the company is run. And because of that he shouldn’t be criticized?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Im confused by your position here, employees should agree with all decisions or leave? That’s not generally the relationship I’ve had with management or peers in my career.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Are you equating disagreeing on technical decisions with sabotaging harmony? Not being able to disagree with management on a technical decision would be a deal breaker, I do understand disagree and commit but it doesn’t sound like there wa
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Overnight, it is estimated more than 10 employees (maybe 20?) were fired for complaining in slack, which I interpret as _privately_
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by mikkergp 4y ago
1. This sounds eerily similar to the Toyota sudden acceleration lawsuit and that ended in. 1.2 billion dollar settlement, even though as I understand it the general consensus is it wasn’t the car 2. Going into minute detail of how this co
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> irrational anger I'm curious about your use of the term irrational, what is your worldview here. I guess I would imagine your world view to be that it's business so anything goes, and people shouldn't be emotionally att
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What evidence have you seen of jealousy towards Elon Musk, and what do you think people are jealous of?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Apparently there’s been a code freeze in effect since this morning, I don’t know how long it’s going to be but may be interesting when they start deploying things again, and start pushing for features.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If Twitter actually fails, crashes, burns, ceases to be a website. Would you blame Musk or would you blame impossible circumstances?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
lol
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If there's anything about Musk's leadership style I find the most... confusing? it's that he doesn't seem to like to be challenged. I would consider the people most willing to productively call me out are my most valua
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Number of microservices is a proxy metric though, could be good, could be bad, what are we really trying to measure?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So one theory about Musk’s approach is that you cut down twitter to just it’s core functionality. So what do those other 80% of micro services do? Content moderation, spam, analytics. Presumably some of that infrastructure is related to
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by mikkergp 4y ago
‘The mandate is coming from the infra team, "until further notice."’ Assuming this is true I’m surprised the infra team still has authority to do something like this with Musk trying to push out new features quickly. Edit: apparen
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by mikkergp 4y ago
People often notice that moving to the cloud doesn't reduce your infra headcount and I think that's because after you move to the cloud, you can to take advantage of the tools available at a higher level of abstraction so they can
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Maybe we need more calling people out. This is all we do and it doesn't really seem to be working. I think the more power someone has, and the more divided our society, the more calling them out elevates them (Trump, Musk, etc)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm saying is calling people out the best way to solve the problem? Maybe Tar and feathering them _Elevates_ them and makes them more powerful or likely to stay in their tracks. Maybe this person is also complicit and just pointing t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wonder what the world would be like if we assumed best intent and genuinely asked what we could do to prevent things like this in the future. I'm not talking about toxic optimism, but also maybe not using hindsight to call people ou
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Also it probably pays for itself not having your staff have to wait in line at local restaurants and taking longer for lunch, but I imagine his fanbase loving the stories of the efficient business savvy hero coming in and cleaning out SV of
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So far my understanding is they’ll implement a special parody badge and he’s told people stopping impersonation is priority number 1.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
How exactly are you defining agile? Scrum is not agile, are you advocating for waterfall? Because the type of project management doesn’t dictate the number of meetings, waterfall development would be slow lengthy involve lots of meetings
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“ Also, Twitter has been made pretty darn resilient over the years. You can call it good engineering, some will call it overengineering, others resilient engineering. Point is, it’s built in a way where it doesn’t break easily” I imagine th

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