{"id":31518,"date":"2022-06-01T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/my-kids-wrote-better-code-when-they-were-12\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:35:06","slug":"my-kids-wrote-better-code-when-they-were-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/my-kids-wrote-better-code-when-they-were-12\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My kids wrote better code when they were 12&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div style=\"\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container noheight\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Elon Musk hit back at Jackson Palmer over claims that Musk couldn&#8217;t run code.<span class=\"copyright\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>\n<p>Elon Musk ripped into Jackson Palmer over claims the billionaire struggled with computer programming.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The dogecoin cocreator made comments critical of Musk to an Australian news outlet.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Musk responded to the article and said Palmer &#8220;never wrote a line of Dogecoin code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk criticize Jackson Palmer, a dogecoin cocreator, on Twitter after he called the richest man in the world a &#8220;grifter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Australian news site Crikey, Palmer said he messaged Musk on Twitter several years ago after creating a bot that could help identify crypto scams on Twitter.  During the exchange, he said it became clear that Musk &#8220;didn&#8217;t understand coding as well as he made out.&#8221;  Palmer said Musk didn&#8217;t know how to run the Python script.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He sells a vision in hopes that he can one day deliver what he&#8217;s promising, but he doesn&#8217;t know that,&#8221; Palmer said.  &#8220;He&#8217;s just really good at pretending he knows. That&#8217;s very evident with the Tesla full-self-driving promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531632887866576904\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:responded\" class=\"link \">responded<\/a> to the article on Twitter with some harsh comments of his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My kids write better code when they were 12 than the nonsense script Jackson sent me,&#8221; Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531632887866576904\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tweeted\" class=\"link \">tweeted<\/a> on Tuesday about Palmer&#8217;s code from 2018. &#8220;If it&#8217;s so great, he should share it with the world and make everyone&#8217;s experience with Twitter better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palmer took the opportunity to share the code, which he posted on GitHub four years ago.  He did not respond to a request for comment from Insider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never said it was super complex, but this simple script definitely worked in catching and reporting the less sophisticated phishing accounts circa 2018,&#8221; Palmer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ummjackson\/status\/1531651884288647170\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> on Twitter.  &#8220;They&#8217;ve since evolved their tactics. I shared it with a lot of people, and it worked for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palmer, who parted ways with dogecoin in 2015, citing a &#8220;toxic&#8221; culture, said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ummjackson\/status\/1531651884288647170\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter thread\" class=\"link \">Twitter thread<\/a> that Jack Dorsey, Twitter&#8217;s founder, had told him in 2018 that the social-media network was trying to run a similar script.  Palmer added that the code wouldn&#8217;t be as effective today, as scammer tactics had become increasingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Musk, who is in the process of purchasing Twitter, didn&#8217;t stop there.  He questioned Palmer&#8217;s involvement with dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that Musk has continually promoted.  Musk&#8217;s support for the meme coin on Twitter has repeatedly helped buoy the coin&#8217;s value.  Tesla and SpaceX have even begun accepting dogecoin as payment for some of its merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palmer always forgets to mention that he never wrote a single line of Dogecoin code,&#8221; Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531696049064116225\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tweeted\" class=\"link \">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a since deleted tweet, Palmer called for his fellow dogecoin cocreator, Billy Markus, to respond to Musk&#8217;s accusation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people after us did exponentially more than either jackson or i did on the code base,&#8221; Markus wrote on Twitter.  &#8220;I think i wrote like 20 lines of code and copied the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Palmer nor Markus work on dogecoin anymore.  The two started the cryptocurrency as a joke in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Markus, a former IBM software engineer, and Palmer, an Adobe software engineer, hadn&#8217;t even met when they created the meme token.  Palmer tweeted about investing in &#8220;dogecoin&#8221; as a joke and bought the domain name dogecoin.com.  Markus stumbled upon the site and got in contact with Palmer regarding his own efforts di lui to program a digital currency that could appeal to larger demographics.<\/p>\n<p>The two engineers launched dogecoin within the year.  The cryptocurrency is now one of the most valuable digital coins.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer is not the first person to draw Musk&#8217;s ire.  In recent months, the Tesla CEO has engaged in Twitter spats with the head of Russia&#8217;s space agency and the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk hit back at Jackson Palmer over claims that Musk couldn&#8217;t run code.Associated Press Elon Musk ripped into Jackson Palmer over claims the billionaire struggled with computer programming. The dogecoin cocreator made comments critical of Musk to an Australian news outlet. 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