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> it doesn't boil down to 50 lines of code No one said that. You created a straw man and are arguing with it. This comment says more about you than you think.
by cscurmudgeon 5y ago
> it doesn't boil down to 50 lines of code
No one said that. You created a straw man and are arguing with it.
This comment says more about you than you think.
- Traster 5y agoGo on then, what do you estimate the complexity of the algorithm to be. Because I'm going to ball park it and say to fully understand the algorithm behind twitter's feed, you probably need to open source twitter's entire production code base and it's research framework.
- cscurmudgeon 5y ago> source twitter's entire production code base and it's research framework. So why is that impossible? Mastodon exists. Is Twitter engineering so horrible that they are orders of magnitude worse than Mastodon's engineer quality?