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Ben Martin

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Colorado transplant to Austin.
Austin, TX
Joined October 2010
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    Ben Martin
    @requestben
    Feb 21, 2023
    genserver.social/Requestben
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    Ben Martin
    @requestben
    Apr 21, 2023
    I'm sad I'll be skipping ElixirConf this year in FL, but stuff is getting scary for queer folks. TX is bad enough to live in, but am going to try to skip traveling to other anti-trans states this year.
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    Ben Martin
    @requestben
    Nov 15, 2022
    I don't really use Twitter much, and I don't expect I'll use Mastodon much either, but I'm at @[email protected] for the moment.
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    Ben Martin
    @requestben
    Nov 15, 2022
    An Adderall shortage and a certain CEO who is apparently 'working' 24x7 🤔
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    Ben Martin
    @requestben
    Oct 29, 2022
    Where do I need to fax my code to?
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    Casey Newton
    @CaseyNewton
    Oct 28, 2022
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    Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself. Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elon-takes-o…
    According to four current employees, engineers spent Friday afternoon at Twitter dutifully printing out their code in anticipation of meetings with Musk and some of his senior engineers from Tesla. Other engineers were told to prepare for “code pairing” with Musk, in which they would sit with him and review code together.

Just after noon, an executive assistant asked engineers to begin preparing code to show to Musk. “Please print out 50 pages of code you’ve done in the last 30 days (if you haven’t submitted code in the past 30 days, then you can go back up to 60 days),” the assistant wrote in a Slack message obtained by Platformer. “Please be ready to show on your computer as well.”

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