kbarmettler

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by kbarmettler 1y ago
As a wordpress dev, yeah. I've got a small file that's almost entirely devoted to reversing stupid things he unilaterally shoved into core. Off the top of my head, full screen editing by default, the stupid 'howdy' that
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by kbarmettler 1y ago
It ain't working for him, but it's all he's got.
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by kbarmettler 1y ago
Don't worry, he's not winning in the courts as much as he seems to be trying to claim (I'm reading the legal doc, not his blog post, but going off of the context of his headline and the comments here). I wouldn't touch W
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by kbarmettler 1y ago
Agreed about Matt, completely. It should be remembered that although it's framed as a legal win, it's not THE legal win. I am not a lawyer, but I think the practice is generally to make as many arguments as the law will support up
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by kbarmettler 2y ago
Her words lived.
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by kbarmettler 2y ago
Thank you very much for this clarification!
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by kbarmettler 2y ago
I agree if we're talking from the perspective of his lawyers. From the wordpress community perspective, I think we benefited from Matt's extraordinary outspokenness here. It made all the bad acts very easy to bullet point in this
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WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction(courtlistener.com)
433 points by kbarmettler 2y ago|187 comments
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by kbarmettler 3y ago
What’s the other reference? Rugrats is the only one I associated it with (from the movie trailers on network tv, I didn’t actually watch rugrats beyond a couple episodes while visiting relatives with cable).
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by kbarmettler 3y ago
I know this is asking a lot, but do you have a reading list/ any other type of media format playlist that you want to recommend? I ask because your comment was incisive.
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by kbarmettler 3y ago
Ooooh, that's good.
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by kbarmettler 4y ago
I was thinking also when Geordi LaForge created Leah Brahmes to learn more about the Enterprise's engines... that didn't lead to ANY problems!
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by kbarmettler 4y ago
As a northern californian, same. I could almost hear my mom telling me to call popcorn so I could reset the VCR clock after a power outage
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by kbarmettler 4y ago
As a former Oregon House resident, astonished to see it on the front page of HN. It's interesting to see the same strategy implemented at Google, apparently, that they reportedly used to get members employed by Yuba county. There was a