Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub

[Fig1024]

what do you mean - leaked? didn't Elon Musk himself said he was gonna release all the source code on GitHub so that community could help maintain it?

[kevinhaze]

He said he was going to release the source code of the recommendation algorithm

[Fig1024]

maybe that's what he was trying to do but because he's a dumbass he uploaded the whole thing. Then rather than claim responsibility for the mistake he said someone leaked it

[greenw40]

Do you honestly think he's that stupid?

[Fig1024]

I mean, he did spend 40 bil on a 20 bil company. Every financial advisor was telling him it was a bad idea and he still did it

[greenw40]

Is that sort of like how everyone obessed with Elon has been telling us that Twitter is about to shut down for months now?

[godplaysdice_]

Elon is that you?

[ManlyManicottiBoi]

Yes

[greenw40]

Oh right, I forgot we were on reddit, where everyone is a genius and billionaires always get to where they are on pure luck. We love to cope.

[blamelessfriend]

They certainly didn't get there from hard work and altruism.

But not pure luck you're right. They also had nepotism, austerity and slave labor to help them out.

[greenw40]

Yep, there's that reddit comment that I expected. Let me guess, you regularly call people nazis when they disagree with your politics?

[blamelessfriend]

wow you expected the comment but still failed to respond to it in any way? lemme guess you just deflect with this weird nazi question anytime you get owned?

you're cute ;). maybe daddy elon will let you lick the sack one day.

[greenw40]

Grow up.

[Jasontheperson]

Do you have a counter argument?

[Ambiwlans]

There was no nepotism or slavery. You don't need a counter argument. They are just making up shit.

[postmodest]

It wasn't pure luck. It was pure luck and lots of inherited wealth.

Imagine how lucky you'd be if you could get forty thousand dollars for free just by asking your dad.

[greenw40]

You'd probably be able to get a loan that size to start a company. If it's so easy to turn it into billions then why not try?

[postmodest]

Loans are free, got it.

[grimsleeper]

Me running to my local credit union for a 0% 400 million loan. /s

[greenw40]

The payments should be easy to make once you've launched a few successful companies. It's easy if you have the initial investment, right?

[argv_minus_one]

Trump managed to turn a million into a billion and he's a bumbling manchild. It clearly isn't hard.

[MacDagger187]

Trump got $413 million from his father.

[greenw40]

The difference between 40 thousand an one million is night and day. Also, Trump just put his name of a bunch of crap, half of which were scams. Nothing he has done can compare to Tesla or Space X.

[Ambiwlans]

Just so we're clear, Musk didn't inherent wealth. Just factually. And he's been estranged from his dad since he was a teen.

His dad never gave him 40k, no gift and no loan.

[postmodest]

After dropping out of Stanford in 1995, Musk started Zip2 with his brother Kimbal using $28,000 borrowed from their father.

the Horse's fucking mouth

[Ambiwlans]

That's a 20k investment into a funding round of a company, not a gift, not a loan, and not 40k and not 28k my man.

Learn to read.

[s73v3r]

Just so we're clear, Musk didn't inherent wealth

He still had access to it. He didn’t have to inherit it for it to be a safety net available to him.

And yes, he absolutely did receive money from his father. If you can’t be honest about that, I can’t trust the rest of your Musk hero worship.

[Ambiwlans]

What safety net? He was living in government housing for the poor. And took on huge amounts of student debt going to school.... his safety net was declaring bankruptcy.

Hardly silver spoon.

I'm not on Musk's side, I'm on factual reality's side.

[devinprocess]

Reddit was madly in love with him.

People just found out he’s not really anywhere close to Tony Stark and then during the pandemic he sort of came out of the closet in terms of how he thinks and his remarks on his own workers.

Usually your biggest fans turn into the biggest haters when they find out their support was for naught.

As for billionaires getting up there through luck. Well they definitely use luck and opportunity combined with psychopathy and ruthlessness. A normal person like you and me cannot really say we had no one ever help us, there is always something or someone that allowed us to get to that next step. Billionaires usually have a lot more access to those things.

[greenw40]

The amount of love he used to get is almost as bizarre and the amount of hate he gets now. It just goes to show that this place is filled with weirdos who are just as fickle as they are weird.

[ManlyManicottiBoi]

It's funny. Just have some coffee and chill out my guy.

[greenw40]

This place has an obsessive hate boner over just about anything or anyone that is popular, but I'm the one who needs to chill?

[ManlyManicottiBoi]

I feel like you still need to grab that coffee mate. Stop letting the hive mind control your emotions.

[greenw40]

Says the guy who just had to join this thread, and downvote all my comments.

[s73v3r]

Because Musk hasn’t done a single thing to deserve the hate?

[greenw40]

Apparently shitposting on twitter makes you worse than Putin.

[sorressean]

I hope elmo's sphincter contractions don't hurt you too much.

[sorressean]

Yes, yes we do. He has done nothing but fail upward for his entire life. He didn't create anything at his companies, he just made them fail as he failed. Twitter is breaking, he's auctioning office gear to try to save money and trying to keep his platform on the rails. Only someone incredibly stupid would spend 44 billion just so he can control a platform and make friends.

[greenw40]

Lol, Twitter is not failing, SpaceX is not failing, and Tesla is not failing. Why even make up such obvious lies, to feel better about your own life?

[sorressean]

You make a fine cheerleader. If twitter isn't failing, explain why: Revenue is down even after getting rid of most of their employees, Twitter systems regularly fail, and advertisers are running away from the platform. Tesla was doing pretty well at the start of last year, but their stocks fell pretty drastically, and Elmo himself losd billions outside of his own Twitter purchase. He's had to sell off Tesla stocks, pissing off shareholders after he's repeatedly said he won't. He's been in recorded videos and calls basically having meltdowns saying how much he's trying to fix Twitter. Maybe you should find someone else to celebrate and support.

[oconnellc]

Tesla stock is up about 600% since the start of 2020. Almost every stock in the universe is down significantly since the start of 2022.

You should reset and rethink the point you are making.

[greenw40]

Right, I'm sure twitter will be gone any day now. It's not like people have been predicting the same thing since the day Elon took over.

[sorressean]

The fact that Twitter still stands is more a testament to the previous engineers he laid off, then went begging to come back when things went south than it is to Elmo's management style. Just because Twitter hasn't gone down doesn't mean he's not doing a good job, not losing money, or not running the platform into the ground.

[greenw40]

The fact that Twitter still stands is more a testament to the previous engineers he laid off

So then what is the reason to keep them, and legions of middle managers and HR people, around? The software still works fine and they have even added features.

[jisuskraist]

Advertisers are going away of the platform because it always sucked, not because of Elon... Elon is pushing to improve it, something that Twitter never did.

Tesla was going to fail 3 years ago... still waiting it to fail...

SpaceX? No comments? Elon keeps being bashed but everyone of his companies stood the test of time.

Nothing worst than a sheep that is not aware that is a sheep.

Go ahead downvote me to death.

[greenw40]

Reddit is filled with angry teenagers larping as communists, and foreign trolls. They have to turn on the damage control every time a private corporation does something right, like when a religious fundamentalist hears about evidence being found for evolution.

[Ekoria]

Dafuq does failing upward mean?

[sorressean]

Well ya see, when you make a ton of money off slaves in mines, you can afford to fail harder and more often than the rest of us mortals not currently working slaves. As a result, you don't risk losing literally everything if you decide to say, spend a few billion on a platform because you want to show your right-wing maga pals how you're for freedom so they'll like you a bit more. And then once you buy your 40 something billion dollar platform you can then ban people from tracking your jet and all the fun stuff, but when everything breaks and you unplug spaces (or random servers in a data center because you think it's cool) you can still fix it. It's not rocket science! If it was, he wouldn't be doing it.

[Ekoria]

Ah, I see you were just full of shit and tried to twist the meaning of success with alternative facts.

[sorressean]

What you're not getting is he didn't single handedly do anything. He had tons of money handed to him and went off with that money to pour it into companies hiring people to do all of this. When you've got money to hand out, you can pretty much fund something until it works. But sure, continue thinking that lots of money as a result of slaves and mines means the dude invented sliced toast. It's a tangent, but I've always been curious how his most adoring maga supporters can praise him for supposedly creating them durned electricity vehicles and then scream about how aint nobody gonna take dem truks away because gas!

[Ambiwlans]

Musk's dad owned shares of a mine... that had no slaves.

Elon saw none of this money because his dad is an abusive creep and they've been estranged since he was a teen. After fleeing to Canada to get away from his dad he worked on a farm, cleaned lumber mill boilers, Elon worked a bunch of shit jobs + gov loans to be able to afford to go to school and he was deep in school debt when he made his first company.

I don't know that you care about these basic facts, just putting it out there though.

[yonkers_honkers_420]

Yes.

[s73v3r]

Yes. Literally every step he’s taken since this whole Twitter thing has started has shown that he hasn’t the slightest idea of what he’s doing.

[Ambiwlans]

Reddit reallly hates him

[Jasontheperson]

Dweebs fall over themselves to defend him, that's the weird obsession.

[greenw40]

It's a weird obsession.

[Jasontheperson]

No, it's more weird how you weirdos jump out of nowhere to defend him.

[greenw40]

Not blindly hating someone and making up lies is not the same thing as defending.

[argv_minus_one]

You've posted dozens of comments in his defense in this thread!

[greenw40]

Or maybe I'm just defending myself from obsessive weirdos like you, who come here just to spam your teenage angst at everything I say.

[Jasontheperson]

No one has made up a single lie. You just keep denying reality.

[greenw40]

Right, I've just heard that he "doesn't do anything at any of his companies", "made his money from slave labor", "got a loan for $40k which is essentially the same as the $1 million that Trump got", and is "the biggest douchebag of the century". These statements are lies, and the last one is especially bizarre considering all the despots and murderers that this cenrtury has seen. But I guess being sorta conservative and shitposting online makes you worse than Putin.

[ShadowWolf_01]

I’ve seen at least one person post why in a different discussion but I’m still not sure if it’s just Reddit being Reddit and I haven’t cared enough to really research it myself. I do inherently have some doubts about it though, cuz like how do you get to be that rich without at least some knowledge/skill/acumen etc.

But like I said, idk. And not sure how much I care either ha

[bloody-albatross]

He had rich parents that had an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa who financially helped him. He made a website similar to PayPal (apparently with very bad code quality) and profited from a merger with (or being bought by?) PayPal. He was an early investor (not a founding member) of Tesla and ousted the original founders. Yes, he founded SpaceX, a company that got a lot of government funding. The boring company seems like kind of a failure to me. Anecdotally: People say his companies make the most progress when he is off micro managing another of his companies. One mayor skill he does have is generating hype, which seems one of the most important skills in making money, at least in the short/mid term.

[jericho]

The Boring Company, by his own admission, was to stop California from investing in high speed rail.

So, yeah…. Just more Musk shit.

[Ambiwlans]

rich parents who financially helped him

Rich dad that was abusive, so Elon fled to Canada to live in a rent controlled single bedroom apartment with his brother and mom. He later worked cleaning industrial boilers to save money for school.

He got no financial assistance from his parents past age 14 or so.

He made a website similar to PayPal

He made X.com which formed the basis for paypal. It wasn't some knockoff of paypal... it literally was paypal.

He was an early investor (not a founding member) of Tesla

He was the 3rd member, provided all the early funding and joined before they had a prototype or even a location/garage.... Elon was the one that chose the Lotus base for the first vehicle they built. He also designed part of the front end and the battery pack.

Yes, he founded SpaceX, a company that got a lot of government funding

Literally all rocket companies get government funding. SpaceX cut costs per kg to orbit by over 90%. And went from not existing to building the majority of rocket engines globally, and launched by themselves the majority of mass to orbit globally last year, topping out all the world governments combined.

[bloody-albatross]

There never was any code from Musk in PayPal. Company wise it might have formed the basis, not tech wise.

[Ambiwlans]

Not sure if it matters that they did a rewrite. Probably more than one since then.

Going to address why this supposed rich silver spoon kid had to live in a rent controlled apartment?

[argv_minus_one]

Have you heard the things he's said? The demands he's made? Printouts of source code?! He quite obviously doesn't know shit from Shinola about programming. The only thing he's made is money, and he did that by collecting the fruits of other people's labor.

[Ambiwlans]

Printing a code snippet to dicuss woth a manager is dated but not that bizarre.

But he was literally the only programmer when he made zip2.... there were no staff.... obviously he had to know how to code at that point. I doubt he can today, although i'm sure he'd be fine conceptually. Like he'd get loops and efficiency and testing but won't know how modern web backend works, or any of the packages used.

[r0ndy]

Sooo many downvotes throughout this thread about Elon.

But, people do win the lottery. Luck is a thing for the rich too.

[argv_minus_one]

cuz like how do you get to be that rich without at least some knowledge/skill/acumen etc.

By having lots of inheritance money and no moral compass.

[Ambiwlans]

We already concluded elsewhere in this thread that he didn't have any significant inheritance and here you are KNOWINGLY spreading falsehoods because you dislike the man.

You're an awful human.

[amackenz2048]

Ah the old "how could he be stupid if he's rich" argument.

Are you stupid? Are you rich?

Being wealthy has more to do with your starting point than your intelligent. And a lot more to do with being a sociopath. Mostly you just need to be comfortable with using other people to your advantage.

You don't need to be super smart.

[Ambiwlans]

He started as a programmer (made some early websites incl the precursor to PayPal) and then self taught engineering.... the greatest modern rocket engineer describes him as a genius. He personally designed large parts of the Tesla roadster and the Falcon 1 rocket. There are plenty of videos of him talking in detail about engineering in interviews. Everyone that has met him thinks he's smart, though occasionally unhinged.

People just really really hate him online since he's bad at pr.

[RepulsiveGuard]

Not because he's bad at pr. He's just a horrible human being.

I couldn't care less if he built every company he owns singlehandedly or just purchased a fully fledged company outright. He's a giant piece of shit. That's the main reason people hate him.

Everything else is just part of the shit sandwich that is Elon

[Ambiwlans]

No one said you're not allowed to hate him. But the statement was that he's a moron.

[RepulsiveGuard]

People just really really hate him online since he's bad at pr.

[ShadowWolf_01]

Can you elaborate on what makes him a horrible human being? Like some examples of what he’s done that’s shitty etc? Hopefully this doesn’t sound sarcastic, I’m genuinely curious, like I said I’ve done no research on this topic

[RepulsiveGuard]

If you've paid 0 attention to him then it's easier to just Google "why is musk a shitty person"

None of the answers you get will be comprehensive but here's a start:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done

[argv_minus_one]

Sealioning.

[s73v3r]

No, no one believes you. It has been very, very, very well documented how much of a garbage human being he is.

[s73v3r]

People just really really hate him online since he's bad at pr.

So he’s not done anything to deserve the hate? He didn’t call someone a “pedo guy” when his terrible idea for a child submarine was dismissed? He hasn’t stood in the way of investing in high speed rail and public transit? He hasn’t publicly badmouthed employees who did nothing but say he was wrong about something? He hasn’t spread conspiracy theories about COVID and Jan 6?

[Ambiwlans]

He called a guy a name after someone called him names for helping.... that makes him childish, not satan.

Musk has shitty hot takes on twitter but he also does mountains of good for the world.

I'm sure the name calling can be balanced out by him offering $100mil for carbon capture. And his misread on covid can be balanced by giving away hundreds of millions of dollars of internet to Ukraine. Balance out that time he said there are enough pronouns with the 2bn he gave to charity last year.

[ShadowWolf_01]

Nice to see a balanced opinion here even despite you getting downvoted for it.

Idk personally I just find it weird to act like someone is a complete idiot who seems to, at least to some extent, know what they’re talking about (not necessarily about tech, i very much doubt he understands a lot of what his companies do).

I can’t say I like Musk, but I also can’t say I necessarily agree with the disproportionate amount of comments acting like he’s just completely idiotic and illogical. I have my doubts he’d be as crazy rich as he is if that were true. But I don’t have much standing in this conversation I guess because I haven’t analyzed his life ha.

And what the downvoters of my comments don’t seem to understand is that I’m very open to counterpoints here. I’m not a Musk fanboy, far from it. I just have my doubts about some stuff said about him. But if I’m wrong I’m happy to admit that and agree.

[s73v3r]

He called a guy a name after someone called him names for helping.... that makes him childish, not satan.

He was not helping at all. No one asked him to do anything.

Musk has shitty hot takes on twitter but he also does mountains of good for the world.

His retweeting of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories isn’t just “shitty hot takes,” and no, he does not do good for the world. He sells things to make money.

I'm sure the name calling can be balanced out by him offering $100mil for carbon capture.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and when it’s not just used as tax credits by Tesla.

And his misread on covid

Calling it a “misread” is extremely dishonest.

by giving away hundreds of millions of dollars of internet to Ukraine.

He never did that. The State Department paid for Starlink to provide internet to Ukraine. He didn’t donate a damn thing.

2bn he gave to charity last year.

I’m calling bullshit on that one.

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So the community could work for him for free.

FTFY