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.

  • @rottingleaf
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    -519 days ago

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

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

    • @Duamerthrax
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      1319 days ago

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

      • @rottingleaf
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        319 days ago

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

    • @Furbag
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      619 days 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++.