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by chx 2y ago
Don't ask what that checkbox means. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788704
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by chx 2y ago
I still find it astonishing anyone would be so careless of their own and close blood relatives' privacy to hand over their genetic material to a private company. What were you thinking . You can't undo that and you can't cha
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by chx 2y ago
I posted https://hachyderm.io/@chx/113272153511607297 > So they gave the Nobel Physics prize to AI bros before honoring another woman. Five women were ever honored so and 221 men. > This is your regular reminder
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by chx 2y ago
> The world needs Matt Is the Wordpress community so weak that after all these years they couldn't weather Matt retiring? And if Automattic is such a business which can only exist as a monopoly then it shouldn't exist. Because
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by chx 2y ago
> Every dollar WPE makes is a dollar Automattic doesn't. This is the same fallacy as "immigrants are taking our jobs". No, this is not true. The market can expand, competition spurs innovation, they put in marketing and so
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by chx 2y ago
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41741183 2. If it does go to court presentation will matter an awful lot. There are really technical topics involved which for us are easy to understand but not so much for a jury of
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by chx 2y ago
In 1997 UO had ~100 000 subscribers, in 2004 WoW had over a million. It's nowhere near the same. This is a very common misconception, really. Yes, there are no new ideas. The fact that LG Prada sported a capacitive touch is only releva
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by chx 2y ago
That's the thing. WoW came out in 2004. What came before in a similar genre? Maybe Diablo II in 2000-2001. And while the Guild Halls were planned for D2 they never actually shipped. There were forums etc but nothing like the scale and
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by chx 2y ago
boykie? cookoo, rizz so you are answering to yourself as a sock puppet. People don't talk like this especially not here. And once again which one it is: you didn't answer me. If you think you did that's because you forgot to
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by chx 2y ago
Well you didn't reply to mine. You replied to meaningless word salad.
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by chx 2y ago
Someone posts literal garbage filled with nonsense words and that's what you understand? What's going on here?
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by chx 2y ago
Whether the factual claims of WPEngine are true is the matter of the lawsuit but it's incredibly well put together. What have you found illogical in there? Your tone doesn't fit at all a serious discussion. "rizz" "
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by chx 2y ago
> They forked their business, which is WordPress hosting. You are constantly talking nonsense. This is simply not a thing. Much as "rizz" and "cuckoo" is not in this context.
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by chx 2y ago
Mullenweg tries hard -- actually too hard -- to portray himself as the good guy, it doesn't help when even posts striving hard to be neutral like https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f... has
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by chx 2y ago
The case could go to trial but most cases are settled outside of court. You need to ensure the other side sees how much they have to lose should the case proceed to trial. In many ways this is a game of chicken.
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by chx 2y ago
My guess is WPEngine looked at the amount being asked from them (the lawsuit says "tens of millions of dollars" based on public posts indeed it seems above thirty million a year), divided it by the hourly rate of the best legal re
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by chx 2y ago
We have no idea, really. Based on public posts only, Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, founder of Wodpress completely lost his mind and went into war against WPEngine for unclear reasons (many suspect it's money pressure perhaps from
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by chx 2y ago
So now we know the lawyers on both sides. To recap, in the lawsuit post, someone said about the law firm WP Engine got: > Quinn Emanuel is one of the premier (and most expensive) litigation firms in the US. Partners in their litigation d
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by chx 2y ago
But when Dennard Scaling was in full swing, it was glorious. It only took six years to go from the original Pentium 60Hz on March 22, 1993 to Pentium III 600 MHz on August 2, 1999 and just a year later you could buy a 1GHz one.
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by chx 2y ago
I will not be baited into discussing what people care and not care about but I will note there was a mass migration from the "master" branch to "main" branch. Food for thought. To be more on topic, to quote: there was a
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by chx 2y ago
draw.io has moved from the .io domain in 2020 . Their arguments were precise and persuasive. After that I do not know why would anyone stay on there. https://www.drawio.com/blog/move-diagrams-net
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by chx 2y ago
They didn't need to fund it, either fastly or cloudflare would've taken it on long ago if they needed to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726759 In 2015 a similar project: https://www.drupal.org&
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by chx 2y ago
To recap, every post is stored in the wp_posts table and revisions have a post_type of 'revision' and a post_status 'inherit' (attachments also inherit). There's no gradual improvement you can do to this. More, thei
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by chx 2y ago
Not only that but the team is lead by Rachel Kassabian. As I noted elsewhere in the thread, she was lead counsel for Google which in Perfect 10 v Amazon (originally it was against Google) resulted in thumbnail of copyright images in search
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by chx 2y ago
Is it just me who took a double take at the very first name? WPE called the heavy cavalry -- Rachel Kassabian from Quinn Emanuel? oh boy. Remember Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc which found thumbnail versions of copyrighted images for
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by chx 2y ago
> Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.” https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-po
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by chx 2y ago
Of course it has been a problem, I provided you with books from the 60s and the 70s to show a better way to educate people. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c for why TV or anything else didn't obsolete te
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by chx 2y ago
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. We as educators can show the interesting parts, the wonders of a field but more we can't do. The author of the article seems to have not managed to get through. Truth to
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by chx 2y ago
How many dystopian scifi did we read where the majority of the populace can no longer read or write they just press icons? If we add "the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will
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by chx 2y ago
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/113219189748801451 > art project idea: "The British Museum", which is housed somewhere outside the UK and will accept and display any donations from anonymous donor

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