12mo ago

“It’s not that hard”

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I tend to think people shit on Musk more than they should, but holy shit does it bug me when a CEO talks about engineering problems with such bravado.
- He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
  Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
  Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
  Rod Hilton about Elon Musk.
- The guy is an idiot who LITERALLY got fired for incompetence as CEO.in the past. He is a scammer and should be treated as such, so no, people aren't shitting too much on him. If anything, they aren't shitting enough, there are still way too many oblivious fan boys out there that think he is a genius. He's not.
  Anything he says that makes sense engineering wise usually comes from someone on his team, anything else is just outrageously stupid, and clearly from his "genius mind" like this blurb/cert/tweet whatever the hell its supposed to be called.
  
  Don't forget defrauding the federal and state of California governments to get them to pull funding from vitally needed high-speed rail projects because it would hurt Tesla's bottom line. Fucking hyperloop.
  
  California HSR has been a zombie project for a while. Even before Musk was a factor, there were annual plans but nothing ever got done, year after year. It's probably going to take intercity projects to become popular and economical for something as ambitious as long-range passenger rail to actually receive serious attention.
- The guy was a the senior software dev at his first startup. Not sure if he's written a line of code since then, but he's at least spent some time in the trade
  
  He wrote code that was so bad, all that was kept from x.com when it was bought was its name. The actual code was taken from another company acquired at the same time.

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