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.
We have OpenBlox (i dont want to mention it again that it is not to be confused with the cryptoshite site) ready to be forked BUT NO ONE WILL NOTICE IT
Thank god I deleted roblox.
Plus It doesn’t work on Linux and I don’t wanna use windows anymoreYou’re not missing much.
True
The guy who made the electric babysitter…
This has some real “Larry I work on ducktales” energy
His way of saying that he wants to charge us a subscription fee for breathing
Construction workers built all the houses.
Why shouldn’t they own it?
Been sniffing your own farts much?
Btw, he isnt the creator, he is just the fourth engineer they hired. He is much more a content creator (and game patent asshole) than the creator: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Community:Shedletsky
E: he also created this “A Bridge Too Far is a game that was created on September 21, 2007. The objective of the game is to blow up the bridge.” Which as a Dutch guy just makes a lot of alarm bells go off. (In market garden the bridges needed to be taken intact). Im not saying he is a crypto neonazi btw, it is just a dumb bad name.
That makes it somewhat worse.
Yeah, people keep repeating that he is the creator of Roblox all over the place, it is really odd. He is just the richest guy there, the Elon Musk of Roblox (Captain obvious here, this is meant mega derogatory).
The tweet before that:
Let me tell you something about Akash. During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. I panicked. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night—better than before.
This says more about you, the scale of the project, bad organisation of your group, and the lack of challenge of Berkeley (nice namedrop though) group projects, and the failure of understanding the excersize (the goal is to learn how to work as a group and notice the networking problems), and the goals of being at a university (networking, partying and learning) than anything else.
Hell I know of a project that also did this and they didnt manage to rewrite the project, as it actually took a lot of time.
To be fair a couple of people at my school were so far ahead of the pack that they could do this kind of things. One of them was a really cool dude who lifted his teammates, the other a pretentious asshole who once rewrote my friends’ parts of a project because it was not up to his standards, they were pissed lol.
Yes, you are right, which is why I didnt say that, should have been more explicit and mention that it was possible. Esp if it was a first year project and someone had a decade of programming exp already (but then the lack of versioning us weird, but also not impossible, as coding vs project management are different skills).
E: But it gets weirder : https://xcancel.com/gmchariszhang/status/1886361422445138099#m they were using git. Indeed https://xcancel.com/martinmalindacz/status/1886390223141048749#m
Yeah I’m with Martin on this one, smells like bullshit.
“Hey guys, I’m cool because once I completely fucked up everything and now I’m taking credit for the work of someone else!”
What a loser, goddamn.
To be fair - even though this asshole doesn’t deserve fairness - that tweet is very obviously giving full credit to Akash (whoever that is) and not to himself. He’s admitting a huge blunder but he’s not taking credit for the fix.
This is fair, but I always read these things as basically name-dropping.
This looks like someone who thinks coding should happen in the same way as in TV series lol
Do they not have version control or something?
Was the project stored on a flash drive they found in the back of a drawer?Yeah that is also what makes it strange, like was this their very first project, did he study CS in the 90s? Did their profs set them up to fail so they learned from that? Did they prank him? Did he delete it on purpose (that is how the project I knew of did it (there was this blog post at the time that told people to write a project twice, once as a draft then delete everything and do it again knowing the old pitfalls))? The very specific set of things that are needed for this to be possible is just odd. Makes me wonder if Akash just had a local copy because Jon just was that tech illiterate.
A high r/thathappend feeling.
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.
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.
Imagine if Akash spent the night making improvements instead of rewriting from scratch though.
nah that is not how real coding works. we should see digital waterfall of numbers and a timer bar that goes like “Code base %55 complete…” while the guy codes.
If two people share a keyboard they’ll be able to code faster.
They did that in NCIS.
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Roblox is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with capitalism
What? What’s not to like about child slave-wage labor making tiny games for other children, whilst making the company infinite money all the time? /s
Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world’s issues
Hot take. No, like actually atom-smashingly hot lol
Hahaha get the guillotines out.
… in Roblox
Didn’t DARPA and University research and a shitload of public funding technically build the modern world?
I’m pretty sure that after we fed a handful of fascist billionaires to a wood chipper, the rest would be much easier to manage.
i’d pay for tickets to that event.
Free attendance, although you might have to bring binoculars since half the planet would probably show up to cheer
We design and build the wood chippers too, so I don’t see why we shouldn’t.
If any Amazon needs to be pulped…
If we fed every CEO of a Fortune 500 company into a wood chipper the only effect on the world would be fertilizing some plants.
Why so pessimistic? I’m pretty sure there would be much more positive change on the world from that purely hypothetical scenario.
We can’t know that until we try
I didn’t even think they would make a good fertilizer, just shove them in a can and fire them at a black hole, see if that eats them up.
It wouldn’t even want them. Watch as it regrets its mistake and chucks them back up as Hawking radiation.
Because we didn’t grant you our approval to do so.
