camgunz

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by camgunz 2y ago
This argument is pretty tedious. If I have a chicken, I don't have a dozen chickens, even though maybe that chicken could (or even will) lay eggs and make more chickens. But all that aside, it sounds like Mullenweg's basic argumen
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by camgunz 2y ago
He wrote a whole blog post about it: they disable history.
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by camgunz 2y ago
All these WP Engine threads are full of people alleging--either directly or through insinuation like you're doing here--of Mullenweg extorting other WordPress hosts. I've seen no evidence of this though; do you have any?
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by camgunz 2y ago
Sure but which is it: Mullenweg behaves like a mafia boss extracting concessions from anyone trying to build a business on WordPress, or he's unfairly singling out WP Engine? I'm not 100% in the tank for Mullenweg, there's so
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by camgunz 2y ago
It's hard for me to believe your idea of a racket is pressuring a single business. You can't have it both ways.
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by camgunz 2y ago
A couple posts up is claiming Mullenweg's singling out WP Engine, and here you're claiming he runs a protection racket against anyone who wants to make money running WordPress sites. Which is it?
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by camgunz 2y ago
Yeah I've super enjoyed talking with people about various topics around my project. That's a big benefit that maybe doesn't get enough play: you'll probably attract people with similar interests as you, if not also simil
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by camgunz 2y ago
For me, I built something I needed, released it as MIT, and then the community improved it beyond my ability to do so. That's pretty amazing, and for me it was well worth the effort. I also got a huge career boost out of it. My experie
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by camgunz 2y ago
I run https://github.com/camgunz/cmp and I think I'm in the middle of (well, maybe closer to nobody but not nobody) the "nobody" vs. "everybody" extremes. The thing I think I had/have goin
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by camgunz 2y ago
Sorry if "MBA" is distracting, rapacious is what I was hoping would be the main thing.
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by camgunz 2y ago
I take a totally different position than you do. If I can't think of a technical reason Google can't get data from something, I assume they do. Why do you think otherwise? Google's full of exactly the same rapacious MBA types
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by camgunz 2y ago
What about regular, non-disparaging claims? Isn't it a fact that WP Engine turns off the backup stuff? Truth's a defense to libel. This seems to me plainly like regular old competition. Can you point to something that's clear
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by camgunz 2y ago
One person's "abuse" is another person's "I have this platform and can use it however I like." For another example, whenever cable companies (dish, etc.) have licensing disagreements with content creators, they
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by camgunz 2y ago
Isn't this completely fine? If you and I both make aspirin, but we both put a little something extra in it (me vanilla, you salt) and I put banners on my web page saying "bastawhiz's salty aspirin puts the ass in aspirin&quot
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by camgunz 2y ago
I don't understand who's being hurt here. Are you asking me to feel sympathy for a private equity company?
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by camgunz 2y ago
Wow does the BOFH kill the user in all of them. That's so dark lol
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by camgunz 2y ago
> And yet some of the most common ones fail - here’s a thread about VSCode from this morning. Well, not being an X user I can't see anything past "the vscode terminal is so poorly implemented it cannot deal with the ansi i am t
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by camgunz 2y ago
> FWIW, I do appreciate you engaging in a longer more nuanced conversation. Even if we continue to disagree I appreciate this and wish more long conversations would happen on HN. Same! I really feel like HN should have like a "branc
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by camgunz 2y ago
It's clear you feel strongly about this, so I'm not gonna try and talk you out of it; I think the viewpoint you're espousing is perfectly reasonable. But I think you're expressing a subjective aesthetic preference, while
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by camgunz 2y ago
This kind of thing isn't without precedent; ls famously ignores files/folders that start with a dot. ripgrep in no way tries to be a drop-in replacement for grep. Not only is it super explicit about it in all the docs, a major rai
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by camgunz 2y ago
Yeah I love that ripgrep has a different opinion on UX than grep (your "Can ripgrep replace grep" FAQ is great [0]) if only because the thought you put into it makes me also start thinking about those issues, which is fun. Like, m
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by camgunz 2y ago
> I disagree - the strength is that they're standardised. The weakness is that those standards are ancient. Which standards do you have a problem with? Handling terminal escape codes is pretty easy; dozens of terminal emulators do i
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by camgunz 2y ago
If you read on, you'll find that my point is that if even the most basic apps (CLIs and TUIs) have hefty system requirements, we stand little chance expanding the use of computers to the average person. I'm not sure what your poin
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by camgunz 2y ago
I understand where TFA is coming from here. A lot of these tools are built to handle complex tasks and thus while powerful are complex themselves. It's also true that computing has changed a lot, and we've learned a lot since some
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by camgunz 2y ago
The strength of these tools is that they are the lowest common denominator. I don't need to worry about `ls` not fitting in an 80 character terminal because its devs "haven't owned a device in the last decade with a screen re
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by camgunz 2y ago
Wow I love the look of this; gonna try it out.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Yeah, OS firewalls have limited use in the modern app stack. It's not just HTTP(S), you've got cache and database in there too. If any ops person asked me this question I'd take it as a bad sign. Like, you're worried abo
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by camgunz 2y ago
Writing a book about C isn't the same thing as "write me a mail server in C". The right analogy here is you read their book about C and write another one in exactly (enough) style that your book can stand in for theirs, but y
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by camgunz 2y ago
I'm on the side of people who say The Fappening was a bunch of sex crimes and that nonconsensual deepfakes are too, but in 5 years phones will do this entirely on device. I really don't know who we're kidding with this stuff,
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by camgunz 2y ago
They don't generate new content that convinces people it came from the sources they trained on. The entire business model is "we trained on their stuff, pay us, not them." No way that's fair use.

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