Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search — he’s got 12 weeks
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#663BJ)
Hotz demonstrating his former company's advanced driver assistance technology. | Photo by Michael Zelenko / The Verge George Hotz, the noted iPhone hacker who was reported to have once turned down a job at Tesla working on its driver-assistance technology, has embarked upon a 12-week internship" at Twitter under Elon Musk's leadership. Hotz said his priority at the social media company is to fix its search feature, as well as to remove the prompt that prevents you from browsing the service on the web without logging in.
The internship came about after Hotz expressed support for Musk's extremely hardcore" ultimatum to Twitter's employees, which demanded that they work long hours at high intensity" or else depart the company. Hotz said that this is the attitude that builds incredible things" and that he'd be willing to do an internship at the company....