It seems like your more enamored since you talk more about him.
This is what most good introvert programmers do. They aren’t ‘hiking’, or getting drinks - like all the non coders in the company did
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This is what most good introvert programmers do. They aren’t ‘hiking’, or getting drinks - like all the non coders in the company did
Lolwut? Investment in training is key to both productivity and retention, *especially* in STEM.
Why do I get the impression you’ve never worked in a professional field a day in your life? Hell, I’m headed off to re:invent after thanksgiving, the second of three conferences I’ll attend this year on the company dime, to learn more about certain components and such as well as talk in person to the aws engineers working on them. I’m also doing a workshop at the beginning of next week on some new analytics techniques we’re investigating using.
That’s investment in training that helps me do my job better, and I’ve got a lot of experience to start. No one should stop learning and companies that want to grow invest constantly in training their staff. Again especially in STEM, since it changes at a rapid pace, so if you arent investing in training you’re getting left behind.
As for sales… if you think paying sales staff next to nothing, not training them, and having them rely solely on commissions works you very very clearly havent ever stepped foot in an enterprise environment, especially one in a competitive field. Sales staff needs to know the product well enough to sell it, including edge use cases, capabilities, and quirks. They should know how to use the product, and know the specifics of the field, very well. Sure they can bring in a tech rep or solutions architect if the sales discussion gets truly into the weeds but that shouldnt happen all that often, and mostly after a general deal is in place. They should be well paid so that they arent so hungry for comissions that they sell customers a raw deal just for the commission, in the long run that kind of thing taints your customer pool and makes folks wary of ever dealing with you again.
The idea that companies shouldnt train their employees has been debunked so many times that I have to wonder if you base your entire business worldview on some alt-right blog that is run by a 17 year old edgelord or something.
It’s actually my first time going, the timing usually sucks for family thanksgiving plans, but works out this year, so I’m super pumped!
I used to hit supercomputing as my conference around this time of year back when my work was more closely centered around HPC, and the timing before thanksgiving worked better, but I havent been on that end of things in a while and I’ve been wanting to go to re:invent for a bit now, cant wait!
What are you on about? I mentioned Musk in that ONE post, unlike the guy I quoted who has mentioned him several times. Clearly @Mr. Skeleton can't count.
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To be fair, you can airlift 75% of the folks from a fully manned running aircraft carrier and it’d keep running as it had before. Doesn’t mean that those folks were dead weight.
Kanye was unbanned by previous ownership before Elon took over so try again. The Enron name also isn't working, even if you post it 10000 more times.
You can't tank something that was already garbage to begin with. Also for all the lies about twitter being dead, it seems as active as ever.
Simple tactic playing out.
Musk is trying to turn Twitter into a cesspool of hate and unmoderated violence.
This will get the app removed from Apple and Google’s stores.
Then Musk and his Muskrat bot army demand sideloading.
If bribed politicians force sideloading to be a thing, apps like this new fascist version of Twitter start collecting all user data and send it to authoritarian governments that backed his companies who can identity the locations of journalists and real identities of anonymous activists.
Musk is trying to turn Twitter into a cesspool of hate and unmoderated violence.
This will get the app removed from Apple and Google’s stores.
Then Musk and his Muskrat bot army demand sideloading.
If bribed politicians force sideloading to be a thing, apps like this new fascist version of Twitter start collecting all user data and send it to authoritarian governments that backed his companies who can identity the locations of journalists and real identities of anonymous activists.
Please provide proof of him doing this, because I somehow missed it.
You gotta be thinking that Discord and Reddit might be thinking of making a "lite" clone to take on twitter right?
Heck, Facebook and Google and Amazon should have been working on a clone since rumors of Enron buying Twitter first surfaced.
A key feature for the next twitter will be to (if the API allows) have an import tool where you can Auth the new app to read the twitter people you follow and it does it best to see if they have moved over.
Heck, Facebook and Google and Amazon should have been working on a clone since rumors of Enron buying Twitter first surfaced.
A key feature for the next twitter will be to (if the API allows) have an import tool where you can Auth the new app to read the twitter people you follow and it does it best to see if they have moved over.
Anyone seriously working on a replacement are likely doing it VERY quietly. Anything they announce will be staffed and in beta ready to roll. They’re certainly not going to be communicating their every move publicly.
Wow.
If you know the background on this group you will might be saying to yourself....
"What in the world is Enron thinking"...
Sadly, we can be pretty sure of what Enron is thinking...
The Twitter death spiral continues:
If you know the background on this group you will might be saying to yourself....
"What in the world is Enron thinking"...
Sadly, we can be pretty sure of what Enron is thinking...
The Twitter death spiral continues:
They expose people who are up to shady things, see no issue here. Transparency is a good thing.
Anytime I see this take I mentally translate to “I don’t understand that complex systems need maintenance”
Yeah, FWIW Google seems to truly not get social media, they’ve tried what, like 4 times now? It’s almost impressive. They have the money to keep trying if they want to though I guess
Meta might manage to handle spinning up a decent twitter clone though, and one with good ad monetization given their track record and size (just something to consider: Meta’s market cap is almost double that of *disney*, it aint twitter, even with the latest issues). Depends on if Zuckerberg manages to decide to tear funding away from the metaverse
If by that you mean failed spectacularly at exposing corruption and are deep into pushing legitimately dangerous conspiracy theories around vaccines and such then sure…
In honesty this has been the most polite discussion I have seen on the subject and I’ve seen quite a few recently elsewhere
Let me ask you something and I'll try and keep it really simple for you.
Do you think the most talented and hard working employees at Twitter have more employment options than those who just get by? Now... tell me why these very high performing people won't be the first to leave? They can very easily get a job elsewhere where they don't have to deal with the toxic and unpredictable environment Musk has created.
Hmm, no one is really "signing up" to stay and be abused at Twitter. However, if you Google recent articles regarding Twitter, staff... the story is clear which staff members have no choice but to stay: the (legal) Immigrant H1B Visa workers. You know, those brainy engineers from India, Pakistan, China, etc. They simply cannot leave Twitter and start looking for another tech job. Because their work visas are tied to their existing (Twitter) job. Which in most cases... if they quit their job, then that means they risk being DEPORTED back to the mother country.
From the Beeb - but I see Ye and Trump are back , well at least he is consistently inconsistent !
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