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also keep in mind that every line of code committed is then a burden going into the future that needs to be maintained and updated. less is more
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Someone could have just added the entire text of Atlas Shrugged as a block comment, committed that, and then removed it, character by character, committing each individual character deletion. They’d be chief engineer at Twitter next week.
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lol the world's richest man burned billions of his own money in order to ruin a company and fire 4,000 people. capitalism is great.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:44
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pretty soft girl posted:Yep, right on the money. It also ignores any vital non-committing activities like research tasks, assessing 3rd party libraries and vendors, data maintenance, mentoring, code reviewing, failure recovery efforts, etc Cheers for the explanation which confirms my right to lmao at Musk - what an absolute cabbage.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:48
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Elon Trump started PayPal out of the trunk of his car when he was a broke college student and within a year it was worth 10 billion dollars. Then he started Tesla and did the same thing. Then he started Spacex and did the same thing. And ya’ll think he’s not going to make billions on Twitter? C’mon son.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:51
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I heard a podcast yesterday that said Elon owes $1b a year in interest on the twitter buyout loans, so if he tanks the company he'd be forced to sell Tesla shares over a fairly long term period. Supposely he could be pushed out of Tesla (I assume SpaceX too) altogether which is kinda funny if true
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Plus one good software engineering practice is that after you finish a feature, you go back and squash your many commits into one (or a few) before pushing to the full repository. The commit history is ideally the most succinct story of atomic changes of how a code base was built. Good developers will do this, bad developers (like me) won’t. It’s not even a random metric, it’s an actively harmful metric. I’m kinda guessing it’s fake though.
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Total Party Kill posted:LOL I would have survived because every pull request I make has a dozen extra commits for me to get rid of all my I'd have survived because one of my current projects cannot be built locally so I put in a lot of minor fixes and tests
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Nov 4, 2022 14:56
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Dalmuti posted:Hr should be making commits to git repos, duh Terminations as Code is the future of HR.
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crime weed posted:more commits = better So basically someone who penned an extraordinarily verbose README.md lives to fight another day!
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smoobles posted:I heard a podcast yesterday that said Elon owes $1b a year in interest on the twitter buyout loans, so if he tanks the company he'd be forced to sell Tesla shares over a fairly long term period. its just all gonna to towards paying off twitter's massive loans that Elon essentially had twitter take out on itself
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Nov 4, 2022 14:59
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That's about as effective as firing everyone who sends the least e-mails, or walks the least steps in a day.
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smoobles posted:I heard a podcast yesterday that said Elon owes $1b a year in interest on the twitter buyout loans, so if he tanks the company he'd be forced to sell Tesla shares over a fairly long term period. Good. IMO SpaceX is such a subsidy charity case that loving with Starlink in Ukraine over talking on the phone with Putin should have mobilized the DoD to nationalize it and fold it into NASA as a R&D division, but that's galaxy brain wishful thinking.
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mobby_6kl posted:How does this work for like sales or HR or IT? IT and engineers are both computers so IT's a redundant department anyway.
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Nov 4, 2022 15:00
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Musks plan seems to be to search the couch cushion for change, by setting the couch on fire
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Elviscat posted:What does this mean, for those of us that don't code or whatever? OK, to simplify things a bit, a commit is basically when you submit some code you have made for review and approval. If you don't think about it a lot or don't really understand software development, you might think that "more lines of code committed / more commits made" is a good metric of who is the most productive coder in your team, but it doesn't work like that. I've been at my current company for some months now, and I'm working in a new programming language. I don't still always know the best ways of doing things in this new language, and I don't always know the "house style" for some things, so when I write code, I have to submit it, get comments and feedback, make changes, submit the amended code and repeat several times. Contrast with someone who is able to do the same thing in one or two commits and you'd have to be a real galaxy brain genius to say that I am a more valuable coder for my company because I committed more lines or made more commits. Even beyond that, writing clean and concise code is a good skill to have. Every programmer can take more lines to do a thing they could do in just a couple, so if you make "more lines == better than" your metric for retaining coders, you are either fostering a culture where people are pressured to write inefficient and ugly code, or rewarding those who do over those who can do the same thing more elegantly. It's the same school of thought as Elon's really dumb "bring us the latest 50 pages of code you wrote this month" idea. It just betrays a staggering lack of understanding for what modern software development is, and what are useful metrics for measuring performance in it.
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crime weed posted:every time you save code you write, its a "commit". this includes corrections to previous errors. TIL I'd be an excellent software engineer codey type person. I've written a few excel formulas in my time so how hard could it be anyway?
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Durzel posted:Except it's worse than that, reading the tweet. It's the most LINES of code, not the most commits. Time to check in a few Jupyter Notebooks I wrote
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Outrail posted:TIL I'd be an excellent software engineer codey type person. I've written a few excel formulas in my time so how hard could it be anyway? You're not wrong
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Lol, thanks for all the answers, that is truly some Galaxy Brain poo poo. Not surprising coming from the dude who had people printing out code they wrote, which even my software illiterate rear end can recognize as dumber than poo poo.
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Excellent pro-musk comment on Hacker News:quote:You mean like the guy who's trying to address the main existential risks facing humanity right now? Last I checked, Musk created Tesla to counteract the existential risk of climate change, Neuralink to counteract the existential risk of AI, and SpaceX to counteract the existential risk of asteroids and other planet-killing catastrophes. Maybe that's why the people at his companies stay despite being pushed so hard? lol
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Edit: ^^^lol, now I'm imagining Musk watching Armageddon in the theater, stands up in the middle of it and yells "someone has to do something!" before rushing out and starting spacex. Until we get a more concrete source than a random screenshot, I am going to assume the commit thing is bullshit. But god drat, if that's true.....gently caress.
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fishing with the fam posted:Until we get a more concrete source than a random screenshot, I am going to assume the commit thing is bullshit. it sounds right up Elon's dumbass alley
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Outrail posted:TIL I'd be an excellent software engineer codey type person. I've written a few excel formulas in my time so how hard could it be anyway? If you're a quick learner and know algebra, there are a zillion well paying tech jobs that you are easily qualified for. There are many very hard problems in tech that genuinely need very skilled people, but for every one of those, there are a thousand more jobs that just need someone who can learn quickly, string two coherent thoughts together, and communicate with humans.
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Nov 4, 2022 15:23
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Twitter is a bloated Behemoth, so let's only keep the employees who contributed the most to bloating that beast. 
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UK Twitter employee saw his laptop screen 'flash grey'quote:We've been hearing from Twitter employees who find themselves locked out of their own work accounts - without being told whether they have been sacked or not. again, 
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Durzel posted:Except it's worse than that, reading the tweet. It's the most LINES of code, not the most commits. If it leads to people writing better documentation, I'm ok with this.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 funny tweet or transparent attempt to evade the warn act? you decide!
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ColdPie posted:If you're a quick learner and know algebra, there are a zillion well paying tech jobs that you are easily qualified for. There are many very hard problems in tech that genuinely need very skilled people, but for every one of those, there are a thousand more jobs that just need someone who can learn quickly, string two coherent thoughts together, Sweet! ColdPie posted:and communicate with humans. Lol hard pass. I've met engineers before gently caress that noise.
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Concerned Citizen posted:funny tweet or transparent attempt to evade the warn act? you decide! 
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 No this is him whining about the advertisers dropping twitter because they are absolutely terrified of Musks insane goals
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 Poor Elon. Seriously hope he is taking care of his mental health and not considering self-harm.
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 An entertaining turn towards Trumpian phrasing 
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 In order to protect free speech we must destroy freedom of association. The law for us all to tithe $8 to lord Elon will pass shortly
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 Coca Cola not wanting their ads next to the saddest stupidest freaks on earth is oppression, to me
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It's free speech for "activist groups" to pressure advertisers to drop Twitter, too, Musky. oh you meant that free speech.
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If my business isn't successful, it's because of Antifa terrorists who hate freedom of speech
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Concerned Citizen posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 lmao just keep posting through it it hasn't worked at all but maybe if you keep at it
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