georgestephanis

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by georgestephanis 3y ago
Honestly, public forums, stackexchange, etc also have a huge benefit over something like discord/gitter/slack, in that previously asked questions are indexed by Google -- which is often the first recourse of someone trying to figu
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by georgestephanis 3y ago
As someone who has been active with the WordPress community for about fifteen years now, the early documentation and Codex's robust documentation and easy on-ramp for new developers always struck me as one of the main reasons for WordP
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by georgestephanis 3y ago
that's kinda the point of a spokesperson, to speak on behalf of an organization
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by georgestephanis 5y ago
What information do you feel can be communicated and understood with that moniker that is not served by Autism Spectrum? And why do you feel those distinctions (if any) merit a wholly distinct diagnosis?
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by georgestephanis 5y ago
Yes hi, "aspergers" is an unfortunate nomenclature and many autistic folks (myself included) strongly resent it. It was named after a Nazi doctor (Hans Asperger) and used to classify autistic folks into "useful" and &qu
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by georgestephanis 5y ago
Literally just came here to link to asciiflow. It's great!
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by georgestephanis 5y ago
Best excerpt of the post: > We really didn't expect this to work or we probably would have tried it sooner.
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by georgestephanis 5y ago
See I thought this was gonna be about the Church of the Walls from Attack on Titan. https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Church_of_the_Walls
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by georgestephanis 6y ago
shut up and take my money
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by georgestephanis 6y ago
Further context from a friend: https://wptavern.com/automattic-relaunches-p2-self-hosted-ve...
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by georgestephanis 6y ago
For context, a8c started using a prior version of p2 like eleven or twelve years ago, when we were positively dozens of people. We have smaller p2s for teams of three to four people. tl;dr: nah, doesn't need thousands of people to be
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by georgestephanis 6y ago
You're using the same word -- Justice -- to mean two things. The court means justice as a violation of the law. You mean it as a violation of your opinion of what is right and wrong. Whether your like it or not, Roe v Wade, and Doe v B
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by georgestephanis 6y ago
I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.
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by georgestephanis 7y ago
I have no idea precisely what we're going to do or how, but if I were spitballing, I'd think something like ... Currently I think Tumblr stores all posts across all sites in one big table? WP.com does different tables per site. I
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by georgestephanis 7y ago
Oh hey I guess I did. Totally forgot about that. You'll note: * He says something factually wrong (`It does not run the open source codebase at all.`) * I point out that he's factually wrong, and back it up. * He dodges and insis
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by georgestephanis 7y ago
John is a pompous jerk who likes to misinterpret half-truths, scream persecution, and then block people when called out rather than admit fault. And if ever called on it he silently deletes his tweets instead of acknowledging his actions o
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by georgestephanis 7y ago
Yup. Looks like they're often classified "invasive" -- http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/paulownia-princess-tree-on...
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by georgestephanis 8y ago
:( Was hoping for new sneakers.
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by georgestephanis 8y ago
Hi. I've worked for WordPress.com for the past five years. It does run the open source WordPress codebase, and we sync changes from the open source project to WordPress.com regularly. :vanishes in a puff of php:
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
It was the perfect pun!
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Sounds like someone needs to get a (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) trip to the woodshed.
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Archive.org version: https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Here comes the shark jump! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZGKI8vpcg
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Local employees do like to use it, but as we've grown, the majority of employees are not local to it. Fewer bay area employees proportionally, fewer events in SF (due to price, we tend to do meetups elsewhere -- and with recent custom
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Yarp! That's what our coworking allowance is for. I've been a member of a local coworking space for longer than I've worked at Automattic, and always got value out of it. But there's many coworkers that don't get
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
> First, you have more layers of (mis)communication with remote since non-developer/engineering stakeholders won't be able to know whether their points and concepts are properly being understood by developers. Body language and
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by georgestephanis 9y ago
Doesn't MySQL distribute in a similar dual-licensed fashion?
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
To be fair, a jury is a committee.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
What fork of Magento actually gets usage?
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
I was thinking Rick James -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLJ5NHARMk

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