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Twitter scrubbing Elon, Republican, Democrat code references on GitHub
- gonzo41 4y agoGood god, streisand effect much! But this will probably work with Trump getting changed, that will suck the oxygen out of everything sadly for the next few weeks.
- verdverm 4y agoHow do you infer that is what is happening? This comment would seem to contradict https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/feature_hydrator/RequestQueryFeatureHydrator.scala#L87 https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
- goodSteveramos 4y agoWell at the top it says that the commit is not part of any branch. So presumably this commit was removed from master and its history rewritten to exclude it from the commit tree. Edit: see reply from verdverm
- verdverm 4y agoIt says that about every file in the repo It seems more like source available than Twitter developing as open source
- gilleain 4y agoForce push : not just for Jedi.
- just3ws 4y agoLooking at that I am still wondering how it got there. That isn't something that just happens, someone wrote that code and that means someone put some thought into it. I am not saying it can't possibly be irrelevant but it isn't nothing either.
- vishnugupta 4y agoThat comment seems to be authored by a PR firm and approved by legal.
- goodSteveramos 4y agoGreat find. What was this code replaced with?
- ben_w 4y agoAnyone know what the DarkRequest thing is all about?
- kthejoker2 4y agoDark launching is the term for releasing new features to specific users or groups for testing feedback (performance, csat, usability, etc) - back in the day of shipped software it was just called "feature flags." It's a standard part of zero planned downtime product development. See LaunchDarkly for a commercial provider of dark launching services.
- ben_w 4y agoThanks :) (We still call them feature flags at my place).
- xwdv 4y agoAssuming you had no software engineering skills or background, what prompt could you use for GPT-4 to scrub this code out?
- fauxpause_ 4y ago[flagged]
- jitl 4y agoDoesn’t GitHub implementation details allows anyone to view commits to a repo’s fork as though they are part of the original repo? I can’t find a reference to this but I remember some pranks using it before.
- whamlastxmas 4y agoThis code was used for analytics. Not for filtering or presentation. I don’t see why it matters
- fsociety 4y agoThis is a peak Silicon Valley moment. Mike Judge should come back and do a sequel where Gavin Belson buys a social media company.
- precompute 4y agoIdiocracy prequel!