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Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire (vocal.media)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Lord01@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] T156@lemmy.world 182 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

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.

They're not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I'm not holding out much by way of hopes.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 170 points 2 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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Did he want them faxed to him?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -5 points 2 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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 6 points 2 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++.

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