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0 pointsanigbrowl2y ago0 comments

I am not sure about that. Twitter has open sourced a lot of stuff in the past. There were certainly people there who would run the site as a nonprofit public service if they had the choice.

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sangnoir2y ago

Twitter contributed a lot to Map-Reduce, ETL and Scala communities: IMO they punched above thier weight.

Sadly, I think their best open-source contribution days are behind them with all the hardcore engineering they now have to do with fewer engineers.

Edit: I forgot about Bootstrap! That projects saved the world from millions of ugly web apps and dashboards built by clueless backend engineers.

culi2y ago

On the other hand, I kinda loathe Bootstrap. I started web dev a bit after it peaked so maybe that's why but I'm so sick of the look and find it hard to think people ever thought it was good.

Another trend Twitter popularized that I can't wait to die: absurdly large border-radiuses

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drexlspivey2y ago

Twitter had 18 years to publish their algorithm under the previous management and they didn’t.

Kye2y ago

Twitter didn't get the algorithmic timeline until 2016. It also wasn't founded until 2006, so I don't know where your 18 years came from.

BryantD2y ago

This release seems less immediately valuable than their other contributions, but historically more significant. It’s a pity we don’t have commits although that would be a huge privacy issue.

But yeah, while I would never work for Elon I’m glad he did this.

nonethewiser2y ago

Well, they didn’t

robopsychology2y ago

But they haven't open sourced their recommendation engine in the past

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