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Submission + - Twitter offices shut down after mass resignations (marketwatch.com) 7

quonset writes: Elon Musk gave a deadline of 5 PM Thursday for Twitter employees to decide whether they want to commit to “extremely hardcore” work or else leave the company. As of Friday morning Twitter offices are shut down because so many people tendered their resignation. From the story:

The full scope of the departures wasn’t immediately clear. After the Thursday deadline passed and resignations became apparent, Twitter emailed employees saying that the company was temporarily closing its office buildings effective immediately. The offices will reopen Monday, the email said.

As the deadline approached Thursday, some employees posted farewells to the company’s internal Slack messaging platform, according to screenshots viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Some posted the “saluting face” emoji, which many employees had adopted as a symbol of the end of Twitter’s pre-Musk era following mass layoffs earlier this month.

This continues the ongong saga of Musk's attempt to take control over the company. It began with his comment (on Twitter no less) that he would be buying the company, followed by months of him trying to get out of the $44 billion arrangement.

After acceding to the purchase, he then proceeded to fire the Twitter board, half of its workforce, then promptly said Twitter may have to declare bankruptcy as more and more advertisers stopped buying ad space.

Musk then said he'd implement an $8/month fee for people to have the vaunted blue checkmark, the sign of a verified account, which instantly led to massive trolling, including in one case for Eli Lily which said it would give insulin shots away for free leading to a 5% decline in the company stock.

Musk continued his purge by firing 80% of all Twitter contractors, without notice, and firing employees who corrected him.

Stay tuned.

Comment Re: Dozens of European startups ready to replace i (Score 1) 217

Not if other globalized business become regional.

But social Media shouldn't be about business, if it's about business, then it's simply an extended, outsourced PR department. Social media it's about connecting people who are close to you, in most cases, this is literal, meaning people who lives in the same region of the world.

Comment Re:Even free speech has its limit (Score 1) 174

first of all, it's a cultural thing.

here in brasil we say "i should kill you" or "i'm gonna kill that that guy" all the freaking time, for even the smallest offense, and everybody undertands that it's just a way to vent some anger.

this is why i don't get why the british are uptight about that. people need a way to relieve tension, keep censoring this kind of stuff, people will start going crazy and actually blowing shit off, instead of just talking it.

Comment Re:It is no good .... (Score 3, Interesting) 163

russians are testing a thermal camouflage for tanks. it uses infrared cameras to measure the temperature of objects (ground, buildings, trees, etc) surrounding the tanks, then send a command to thermal plates all around the the vehicle to match the measurements. this effectively makes the tank invisible to infrared devices, including night vision goggles.

imagine an american soldier, after being blasted by that tank saying as he dies: "the goggles, they do nothing!"

Submission + - Formula Picks the Best Oscar Films for Men (esquire.com)

garthsundem writes: "I wrote this equation for Esquire, ranking the BEST Best Pictures for guys. The top five: Godfather, Gladiator, Forrest Gump, Patton, Gandhi (all five titled after the iconic male lead). The bottom five: Oliver, Gigi, Broadway Melody, American in Paris and...The Sound of Music. (Though it didn't win, I ran the numbers for Star Wars IV, which would've come in third...) Driving factor is Rotten Tomatoes audience plus critics score...multiplied the how much MORE the audience liked it than the critics (guys tend to prefer movies the critics dislike). Also important is quotability (via IMDB and Wikiquotes) and Oscar nominations for the male lead. Thoughts on the list?"

Comment Re:They're gonna be sued! (Score 1) 192

and both trace their origins to the same place. NextStep was the inspiration for windowmaker and OS X is a direct evolution of the nextsteps codebase.

this is nextstep: http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/nextstep-os.jpg
this is windowmaker: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Windowmaker.jpg
and mac OS X: http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/4/48/Aqua_(Mac_OS_X)_screenshot.jpg

the similar looks of finder and next's file browser is not a coincidence.

Comment development has been going of for a while now (Score 2) 192

i've been following the development for more than a year. i've even contributed a fix for a null pointer exception on the menu editor.

the only news for me is to see it back on the news. which is a great thing in the sense that it'd bring awareness to this great desktop manager.

i've tried using KDE, gnome, several *boxen to name a few, but i always go back to windowmaker.

the killer featuer to me is the automatic cascading of new windows. i often need to open more than a dozen terminal windows to do my job, and having them cascaded across several virtual desktops is a helluva lot more eficient than any other method (and no, tabs don't work for my workflow)

Comment Re:It's a good thing the military is still funded. (Score 1) 422

evryone IS taxed. you buy a pack of gum, you pay some taxes. it's like that in many countries, not only in US.

and if tie the upper tax bracket to the lowest, the next day congress would drop the lower bracket to 0.1%, get the votes from the lowest bracket and bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions from the upper one.

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