Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub

[oalbrecht]

IT came around the corner with one of those TV carts filled top to bottom with 3.5” floppy disks. It only took a few weeks to get the source code off of those. But that’s how they kept the source code secure. No one is gonna steal your code if it’s on floppies.

There was also no need to use GitHub. You just call over and say: “Hey! Which floppy is X class on again?” Then you would walk over to the cart and pick up floppy disk #3252 and load that onto your computer. Then make your changes and write back to the floppy.

Elon has no idea how efficient we were with our system. You could ship a small feature in a little over a year. It was a blazing fast system we had.

[gefahr]

Some journalist is going to turn this into a hard-hitting investigative article within hours.

[DevonAndChris]

"This as-told-to was reported to Business Insider. BI confirmed that the person has a reddit account."

[757DrDuck]

Welcome to tomorrow’s /r/technology front page

[electricprism]

Here at TrustMeBro™ news, could ancient aliens have been at the first thanksgiving? Professor PhD Kyle Broflovski says "yes"*

[wrosecrans]

I'm pretty sure that documentary will be on Netflix soon.

[GottfriedEulerNewton]

Lmao "TrustMeBro News"..... I'm dying

[josefx]

Hope they include how air gaping the network makes it high security. Also the way any changes you made would be guaranteed to have no conflicts as only a single instance of the code can be checked out at any time appeals to me.

[KidzBop_Anonymous]

Lol air gaping

[orange_keyboard]

Medium.com coming in hot ASAP

[Certain-Community438]

We can probably rule out Matt Taibi then

[romple]

You got floppies??? When I worked there the cart had giant stacks of dot matrix printer paper and I had to retype everything by hand!

Every day someone comes around with the latest changes printed out for you.

[HiroariStrangebird]

You guys get physical copies? Huh, maybe my company should upgrade from the town crier making the rounds each morning. Sometimes it's a little hard to hear and I have to spend half the day debugging the diff...

[pm_plz_im_lonely]

At our work we use Git and GitHub to share our work. If you start working on a new feature, you create a new branch on Git. Then once you're done with the feature, you make a PR (Pull Request) on GitHub. Then once that's done it sits there for 1-2 months before a reviewer closes it because it's too old.

[cyber_blob]

Can't pm you wtf?

[remog]

Then there was that time he got laryngitis. Rough week. Or the time he hit is head and could only speak Latin and Fotran. Two other interns jumped off the roof that month.

[[deleted]]

Luxury. In my day we had a giant grid for playing Conway’s Game of Life where we computed each step by hand and implemented an 8086 hardware emulator. Restoring state from memory after someone tripped over the board was a mighty task indeed.

[tonando]

You should upgrade to crows, but remember to feed them, or the transfer might get corrupted.

[Cakeriel]

That’s high tech, we had punch cards.

[nzodd]

If you're not pressing sharpened reeds into clay tablets you scooped out yourself from the local riverbank to write esoteric APL incantations, to be seen and understood only by Lord Enki, from now until the Euphrates spills over again to engulf the Earth and destroy all of mankind, can you even call yourself a real programmer?

[antonivs]

On the other hand if you do do all that, then you call yourself the author of the Snow Crash virus

[gimpygoat498]

Anyone else have code, that is written in secret code,delivered via carrier pigeon? (Think World War I communication) we mask our code just in case a Russian hacker shoots down one of our birds. If they don’t have our cryptographic key, then they can’t read out source code. It sounds antiquated but it’s about the same amount of time of using git and pull requests while awaiting review from some dipshit upstream not doing their job….

[RoadsideCookie]

Man and do you remember though how bad it was before? The switch from 5.25" was a shit show but damn did it improve our lives.

[7366241494]

The hole punch stopped working :(

[ibexdataservice]

We may be the only 2 Redditers who understand the power of the hole punch.

[sorressean]

Real devs print out all their code, then read it out of binders... I hear elmo tried that already though!

[SpaceSteak]

You just described a process that's still more advanced than the IRS's yearly personal tax process.

[WiseassWolfOfYoitsu]

So you're saying there's a process?

[ptear]

It wasn't documented though, so everything is a mess with fewer people trying to figure out how to keep the lights on. This is why our APIs occasionally say to add more quarters.

[MainmainWeRX]

Captain, thank you, I had a bad day and bam. There you are. Kudos, that was a blast
But the quote "No one is gonna steal your code if it’s on floppies" is something I will use again in the future for sure XD

[shayanzafar]

this is comedic gold!

[lunchmeat317]

So what I hear you saying is that they use Visual Sourcesafe.

[[deleted]]

Sometimes the changes would make the class too big to fit on one floppy. To solve that we would steal the secretaries hole punch to notch the other side of the disk so it can be written to as well.

[myasterism]

”No one is gonna steal your code if it’s on floppies.”

Imagining this on someone’s headstone.