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Is this why Twitter is down? Their Engineer Speaks

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There's no reason to assume he was at Twitter HQ when he sent this out. He could be pretty much anywhere in SF. :)

Wow, a picture of someone's tweet talking about pot. This is what Hacker News has come to?

Aw cmon it's pretty funny. I guess Alex just isn't as cool as the rest of Twitter's staff... ;)

I used to work at a startup where everyone was always baked and we also had serious quality control problems.

> I used to work at a startup where everyone was always baked and we also had serious quality control problems.

Problems with the quality of the software, or the pot? ;)

Ruby on Rails on Reefer

Twitter headquarters. "I've been working on the RAILROAD!" (Chorus x10)

It's always snowing on Wall Street.

Call me naive but I'm a bit surprised to hear that a company with $15 million plus allows "weed-talk" around the office.

I'm not saying it's wrong or bad or the reason why Twitter has issues, just surprising.

you're naive - silicon valley is on drugs.

and it's also how the Twitter idea came to fruition

I was thinking the same thing.

Guy 1: "Hey man, whatif I knew what everyone was doing right now?"

Guy 2: "Yeah man, like God"

Guy 1: "No, I mean EVERYONE like RIGHT NOW".

Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp.

It's in San Francisco. They probably buy from the VCs.

Oh, so that's what they mean by "seeding!"

I assume most everyone would quit if someone got fired/reprimanded for talking about weed. It's real life, not high school.

Weed? No biggie.

It's when horse or crack are the main topics you may have to worry.

It might also just be a running joke, like "what kind of crack are you smoking?"

... but then this entire submission would be overblown!

I can't imagine it!

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'll add that a large proportion of bankers, traders, and other high-powered executives that make a lot of money (some of them make $15m a year) are on drugs a lot of the time. They don't talk about it and it's usually not weed (more like peruvian marching powder), but it's there.

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