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Comment by rhinoceraptor | Hacker News Reader

Ah, this must be the git bisect strategy for finding which employees they can get rid of without completely destroying the company. Elon will on average, only need to do O(log n) layoffs!

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Or, given Twitter’s internal politics, he could model the org chart as a minimax tree and alpha-beta prune, giving a space complexity of only O(bd) :)

we all know that the org chart is an untrained neural net

Only if the employees are already accurately sorted by value.

Again, he has a genius method:

  git log --author="$EMPLOYEE" -p | wc -l

https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md

"git summary" from git-extras works too

git log --pretty=%ae | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

sort -nr

That's more correct, also I realize I just counted number of commits rather than lines added. Close enough though, not like anyone would make any decisions with this list right?

Easy

  pip install git-fame

  cd twitter

  git-fame

It does seem like this is basically what they are doing. The messages employees received did not include the actual paperwork, which the messages say will come in about a week. It could be interpreted as a strategy to "terminate" aggressively but with the option to walk it back a bit if the place falls apart within the week. It's a clever-sounding approach on paper. But there is a human element when dealing with people's livelihoods that might not have been sufficiently considered.

Scream test for human beings.

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