Posted on 11/06/2022 1:59:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
No severance pay? Check how much they will get from now to Feb 2023 without doing a thing except obeying the Twitter handbook?
I suspect the coders weren’t lazy but this lousy system helps hide their deceptive clean up before the transition. ... all the code that did the dirty deeds has been removed and those old folders deleted.
Makes sense. Tks for posting.
>> “Subversion” is older and more primitive but was respectable in it’s day.
Heh... that’s what I use. As opposed to my customers’ “no source control at all”. :-)
Oh well, I’m dated. So what... retirement is just around the corner.
I started with CVS, and that’s one step behind Subversion. But I haven’t actually used any real revision control tool for many years. Which is a shame.
Just thinking about this it does make sense. If Twitter is extremely paranoid about the possibility of outsiders reading their source code and they don’t have resources to develop version control software in-house, the old method of backing up changes by manually changing file names is a simple low cost solution.
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