Matt Calkins, CEO of software company Appian… said Musk’s approach to running his tech companies didn’t translate well in Washington.
It doesn’t even work well in his tech companies.
Unrelated tangent on the Appian software: It is exactly your solution if you have a five person job, but need to employ 30
Gross. AI corpo shilling.
I thought it was a joke about the software making work much less efficient?
It was indeed a joke. Appian is a “low/no-code” platform (that surprisingly requires quite a bit of code) used to build shitty customer service workflows. It is tailored for non-technical people and sold as a cost effective solution to clueless executives. It is the kind of software solution that body shops like infosys, accenture, etc love because they can load up lots of low skill people on the project (but charge the client as if they were higher skilled). The result of this arrangement is mediocre at best. Additional changes or scope creep drags out these kinds of projects. Because the system was built with low-skill there aren’t the same considerations given for readability, extensibility and all of the other good software development practices that enable future velocity. Again, another win for the body shops as they can’t deliver the changes the client wants fast enough. So now there is this parasitic body shop attached at your company’s hip after Appian is deeply ingrained into your business processes. It is exactly the kind of penny-wise, pound foolish thinking (“I can hire lots of non-engineers for one engineers salary!”) that ends up costing way more in the long run.
TL;DR: Appian is a wage suppression grift.
Well, that’s on me. It’s a difficult sentence to parse in English since it’s kind of nonsensical, but I guess that’s the joke 😅
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Theater.
Elon Musk is playing the part of “heel”, and articles and reporting like this is engineered to “take you in” to the moment, where something can be simplified and reduced to a “good” versus “evil” paradigm. It creates an escape clause for those doing the truly villainous where the heel can be pointed to as “worse”.
100%. Also a hatchet man. He’s brought in, wrecks shit on purpose, gets “kicked out”, profits immensely. Now admin can roll things back 5-10% to placate the plebes and blame Musk who everyone already hates for their life being worse. That said, a lot of people would nonperformatively tell him to go fuck himself. Just don’t mistake it as anyone being on your side
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I was going to say, this has been one of the clumsier high-school dinner theater productions I’ve been to.
Agree, and I’ve been to some pretty rough Rocky Horror Picture shows.
The old Vince McMahon strategy.
My thoughts exactly. Distancing him from MAGA so people won’t hate him. People have very short attention spans and memories Elon could be seen as good again.
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Not true it’s mostly all Tesla stock. I guess he couldn’t go broke but he could loose more money then anyone ever in history.
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Y’all are being way too nice on this actual Nazi
Damn, a tongue lashing? But was he SLAMMED?
It was a STUNNING tongue lashing.
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Please stop using TikTok language. It’s only there you are not allowed to say suicide, which, by itself, is fucking stupid, so please use the language as it’s meant to be written.
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We are not on those platforms, we have to opportunity to build something better here, so please don’t bring along the repressive habits from TikTok, Discord or reddit. No need for personal attacks either.
I’m glad that Brian Thompson was killed, it was not a suicide. See? Different place, different culture. Let’s embrace it!
I asked in a friendly way, and explained why, and you attack me? Alright, no problem, I’ll just block your user. Damn, I love the Lemmy functionalities where I can remove/tag toxic people. Hope you have a lovely day!
Can you tag with Jerboa? Which client are you using?
I’m using Voyager (vger.app)
klIIed salclde
Nah if he wants to kill himself I ain’t stopping him.
This is the internet, you can say fuck. It was never meant for children under 13.
He hurt a lot of people and the debt is higher than ever.
Mission accomplished, for them
Lmao. He’s so fucking unlikeable. That is absolutely hilarious.
Fuck all of them, I say
This is unrelated but why the fuck does every hat Musk wears look like it’s like 2 sizes too small? Like I’ve got a big head and a proper hat settles like right on my brow, meanwhile with Musk it’s like 2/3rds up his fucking forehead.
They must look right to him in the mirror. Gotta make sure the text is nice and square and forward.
Or maybe he has a sensory thing and this is how he deals with it though positioning.
The problem is that the hats technically sit correctly, so I think he just has a weird head. Though it could also be a sensory thing since he has had a lot of work done including hair plugs so maybe it’s something to do with that?
IDK maybe I should stop over analyzing a fascist I wish to scalp.
I saw it as his way of showing us that he has a big brain. And that he is very smart because of it.
This is just stupid enough to be believable, mind you I think he is less intelligent than labatomized cockroach but point still stands.
Probably avoiding friction on his hair plugs.
Off with their heads!
I don’t know that we should be advocating for violence here. If we do that, we may find our opponents responding by doing the same, resulting in a positive feedback loop of escalation. I mean it’s not like they [checks notes] carefully planned and organized a rally based on an extremely inflammatory lie, riled up the attendees, told them to fight, sent them to the Capitol Building resulting in an angry mob that stormed the Capitol while actively calling for the deaths of the VP and several members of Congress, killing some people and vandalizing the offices of Congress…oh, no. Well, at least they weren’t pardoned for their flagrant, violent insurrection…oh, no. You know what? Just disregard my earlier comments. Carry on.
Green. Mario.
Love it. Marios that are green should be free.
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Ok. Get to it. The world is waiting.
I’m sure he’ll be consoled by his billions and having a corrupted government that coddles him even further.
If gulf was a word to describe a type of person, he could be the gulf of America
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I can’t read the article because of a paywall.
