Nobody has a single "problem" with them leaving. We're laughing at them. Especially as they flounce out of Twitter declaring the company is dead without them.
Posted on 11/17/2022 9:20:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
How many people does it take to keep a piece of software running?
Very shrewd, if that was his intent (as I suspected).
Knowledge silos.
Elon only has to tweet “hiring moderates!” and he’d get a flood of engineer applicants.
The world did OK without all of that. It is true, I have direct memory of that.
All good news. Commie staff all quit major commie-only propaganda tool because they can no longer promote their lies and fellow liars. Propaganda tool dies.
All good.
That depends entirely on the scope of the software system. A single embedded application in a test instrument can easily be handled by a single person. A global information exchange system chock full of features requiring fast database access and 5K transactions per second does not fit the above model. Not by a long shot.
We don’t have too few workers in America. We have too many working for the government. We could add a million or two high skilled workers back to the workforce if our government weren’t so bloated.
Yet it’s still humming along with a 20% workforce. Me thinks they were a bit bloated.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4110134/posts
Running with 50 key people, down from 7,500.
Nobody has a single "problem" with them leaving. We're laughing at them. Especially as they flounce out of Twitter declaring the company is dead without them.
If only Musk took over government.
I made and sold two software startups. The first was me as the coder, an admin guy with industry contacts and a sales guy. That lasted a year. Then we hired 6 more coders. after another year we hired 6 more client facing people. Now you can put all your infrastructure in the cloud. Most of your user interface is easy web programming. The next one had me in charge with a partner and we hired the first 6 coders. We started in homes then took whatever cheap available space we could get. We stayed light on rules. People worked well into the night. When your staff is giving you their all, there is no reason to sweat the small stuff. Once you get your first outside investor the fun ends.
Imagine the sort of people who would be proud to put those titles on their business cards! Yikes.
I’m very sure it was a bloated workforce as well. My experience has been that just a few capable people do all of the work while the rest gossip, talk politics, cruise the ‘net, or play video games.
Perfect!
And I have to wonder if this isn’t the reactions of a smallish number of malcontents, amplified by a woke media who are sympathetic to their whines.
Just a point of triviality, I personally don’t like to be saddled with the term “coder”. Of course, I cut my teeth in the days when that was slang for “key punch operator”.
You are older than I. And I am old. We used to call ourselves programmers. Then it became developers. I have lots of kids who are coders. Some are real CS degreed programmers. And some are faking it hackers with engineering or math degrees. Lots of people write lines of code in some high level language without knowing a stitch about computer science or even logic. I tell all my kids to learn SQL and some sort of Java or C language. They have, but as soon as they get good they become managers.
last I heard twitter was down to 50 employees and doing just fine. the twitter universe is expanding.
I’ve long had the feeling that EM has plans for Twitter that go far beyond the public, self-aggrandizing bitch-box that it presently is.
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