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~~Creator of roblox~~ Early Engineer at roblox, and roblox game maker thinks he should be able to run the world since he worked at roblox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Akash:

Let me tell you something about Jon. During a project at Berkeley, our group was utterly fucked because of his shitty code additions, so 2 days before the deadline we pretended that Jon had deleted our entire codebase. While Jon panicked, I substituted a version with his shit deleted and went home and got high - and told him I'd rewritten it from scratch in one night.

Edit: BTW how is it even fucking possible for one member of a team to completely delete an entire codebase, including all previous versions? Did he go to every other team member's computer and accidentally delete their working copies too? His story might make sense if it was 1981 and the whole team was sharing a single VIC-20, but he wasn't even born then.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

My thoughts exactly. Most likely a single member had a part of the code they were working on and never shared and deleted by accident.

Even then it shows little professionalism. A local git repo can do charms even if you never intend to publish.