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Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire (vocal.media)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

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[–] [email protected] 169 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Considering he asked twitter programmers to print out their pull requests Im not even sure he's not cosplaying a programmer

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow I hadn't heard about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Did he want them faxed to him?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When he apparently was a programmer, this was a bit more normal.

I've met a few professors requiring uni assignments' code printed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn't know what he's doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

OK. I just meant that one can demand that as a sign of respect or something. With a sufficient degree of narcissism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I imagine that a university level coding assignment and the backend code that runs the Twitter.com website (albeit just fractions of it) are several orders of magnitude apart from each other in terms of size and complexity. I don't know shit about programming though, I took C++ in high school and got a D+. Should've called the class Introduction to D++.