The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit anyway.

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rustybolt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you ever saw this guy program you know he's very competent so IMHO that reflects badly on twitter, tbh.

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TheAceOfHearts 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the more likely explanation is that he's just not as familiar with frontend web development and react, so he underestimated the difficulty. He was asking for help on Twitter for how to make pills inside of a text field. His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check.

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		> His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check. whats the difference w/r/t programming? in this case I'd argue the knowledge was the skill
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skizm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Totally fair! I think it is more of a reminder that making impact at large companies can be hard even for competent people.

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TheAceOfHearts 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I remember correctly, he wanted to fix the web search UI to match the features offered by Discord. He even crowdsourced some free work from his followers by asking them for help in implementing visual pills in text fields or something like that.

The basic feature set he wanted to implement wouldn't have been very difficult for someone who is experienced with react, but I'm imagining there's lots of minor quirks with the "last mile" of details related to internationalization / localization and accessibility.

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aftbit 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll never forget Cydia or the PS3 hacks lol.

	▲	consumer451 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. While I diverge from his opinion trees on many things these days, dude is/was an absolute rockstar to me.

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the_real_cher 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair I think he's more of a hardware guy.

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yellow_lead 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Guy was also tryna hire other interns as an intern himself, lol

	▲	mingus88 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s called a “referral”

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