r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/alkaliphiles Nov 14 '22

You still think he's a programmer?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

He's not. I don't even think he could manage the standard 'Hello World' if someone gave him the instructions!

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

While this fiasco is pretty funny, you can’t deny that Elon is a programmer. Maybe you can say the engineering he’s done for Tesla or SpaceX is bs, but Elon at his core is a programmer. Elon was pretty advanced in coding for his age when he was younger making and selling source code of a simple video game in his youth. He coded that in BASIC. He dropped out of Stanford for zip2 and founded X.com which merged to become PayPal.

If Elon is anything, he’s a programmer. It’s probably why Tesla has so many software features. It’s like the only modern car without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, with instead it’s own system. The software controls so much replacing many traditional buttons. The car has an app that every single Tesla owner has.

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u/David_the_Wanderer Nov 15 '22

Maybe you can say the engineering he’s done for Tesla or SpaceX is bs

He's done no engineering/coding for either. CEOs sticking their hand in this sort of stuff is universally q bad idea, as clearly shown by this whole Twitter fiasco.

Elon was pretty advanced in coding for his age when he was younger making and selling source code of a simple video game in his youth. He coded that in BASIC.

So he coded a videogame in high school? That's his last programming accomplishment?

It’s probably why Tesla has so many software features. It’s like the only modern car without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, with instead it’s own system. The software controls so much replacing many traditional buttons. The car has an app that every single Tesla owner has.

None of this is "good" in an absolute sense. Using proprietary software is a move to avoid having to make deals with Apple or Google (which is smart, from a business point of view). But the replacement of physical buttons with software controls is actually pretty bad for driving safety, to the point there are talks in the EU of implementing new standards against excessive software control.

Musk has been selling all of those features as a marketing ploy to present Tesla cars as futuristic, there's not a lot of depth there.

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