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by ookblah 2y ago
yeah i concede i don't know everything, but honestly if you're not from or living in the US i would also re-examine your view of things. you have a different objective view but miss a lot of the context. it's easy to intell
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by ookblah 2y ago
i don't even want to give people that benefit at this point. used to think that it was education, circumstances, outside forces, culture, etc. like "if only" we had XYZ then we can prevent this. at this point i just want to
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by ookblah 2y ago
imo we are seeing two types of programming viewports emerge. i mean maybe it's just me but i quite like this new normal where i'm an "intermediary". i review every line that comes out and research things if they don&#x2
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by ookblah 2y ago
i don't think you read the article or understand the current context. he has two entities, a private business (Automattic) which is separate from the WP.org side which he has said since the beginning as being "community run",
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by ookblah 2y ago
this is faulty logic. you are taking two overlapping issues and framing them as an either/or. matt could easily have removed the conflict interest while not "giving up" on wordpress and continuing to contribute. it's
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by ookblah 2y ago
I thought that too until you go down the rabbit hole and realize it's been this way since apparently the beginning. It's also interesting to note just how hard everyone was tearing the author apart in the comments only for it to
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by ookblah 2y ago
I know assholes like this exist everywhere, but it's the constant need to re-affirm that he's the "nice guy" while brazenly punching you in the face that unsettles me somehow. At least I know what I'm getting with
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by ookblah 2y ago
I guess the pettiness can continue to reach new lows
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by ookblah 2y ago
the irony of this entire post ranting about the views of "children" (classified as people under...30?) when presented with evidence contrary to your beliefs.
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by ookblah 2y ago
i mean, obviously advances in modern medicine has saved lives. it's not like i want to go back to the stone age. it would help to understand the point i'm making first. you know those movies where all humans band together in the
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by ookblah 2y ago
same. we probably encounter this type of thing every 100 or so years for centuries, just enough for the previous generation to die off and the new generation to make all the same dumb mistakes again.
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by ookblah 2y ago
i mean in the end, barring some big issue like addiction or something that's actively harming the relationship, often times you just aren't compatible. maybe you fell out of love or had different priorities. whatever the reason
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by ookblah 2y ago
it's more about the reasons, not who is initiating it or wants it. in any case, i find more often it's just a generic line that people use when breaking up to spare the other party some grief. otherwise it ends up with the other
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by ookblah 2y ago
I don't know anything about his situation, but I will say one of the lamest things ever when breaking up is to say it's not you, it's me heh. I mean that's probably something everyone hears face to face and I get it, no
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by ookblah 2y ago
Very interesting, I also got Spanish, Chinese, and english. Lifelong midwesterner here as well. Maybe there's something to the midwest.
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by ookblah 2y ago
I dunno, I mean he could have applied the "fix" in a more cold and calculated method. Tons of PE companies out here doing the same and squeezing the stone without resorting to random personal attacks of those they disagreed with.
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by ookblah 2y ago
I stopped following it for a bit after the initial drama after Matt had repeated meltdowns and showed his true face in all of this. It was just tiring try to fight all the non-stop gaslighting which was probably part of the strategy. Any
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by ookblah 2y ago
Really jarring reading that. I think I was in middle school when the AOL and the "internet" to me became a thing (lol) and sure there was a lot of time wasting stuff (chatrooms, games, etc.) but there was a huge huge field of jus
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by ookblah 2y ago
I mean, I grew up in a conservative state and a small/medium sized city that has always been red. Not every one is a "redneck retarded bigot". I don't think most of them aren't as openly racist as made out to be.
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by ookblah 2y ago
I bought that line in 2016 and again in 2020. I'm not saying I'm done with trying to understand, but that level of fks to give is very minimal now. Obviously, I don't think 50% of the population is stupid, but every time I t
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by ookblah 2y ago
Just have a backup plan for distribution that doesn't involve touching any of Automattic/Matt's personal property (wordpress.org, wordpress.com, pressable, etc.) if you go that route. I think the recent spat is just the event
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by ookblah 2y ago
i mean i don't considere issues closed or tickets open to be "looking over my shoulder", but i guess we disagree there. these are some metrics that need to be looked at at some point to determine some strategy about the fu
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by ookblah 2y ago
i don't understand how this is punishing the good people... i think everyone here has some ptsd with terrible managers or others micromanaging their work. data a good way to look back and ask the questions that might need to be asked
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by ookblah 2y ago
did i say that? that's why i said it's an indicator, one of many. if you are producing zero code vs your peers and your job is to program it doesn't mean you are unproductive, but at least someone can talk to you about it a
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by ookblah 2y ago
I read her other post from 2004 and i can't help but think you're throwing the entire thing out, baby and the bathwater and all. I don't think you should make the metrics the end all be all (Goodhart's law), but that gra
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by ookblah 2y ago
yeah it's not that black and white in practice. we make all sorts of risk calculations when building in an ecosystem. some of these things are consistency, leadership, stability, etc. free or not, if standards were maintained a certa
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by ookblah 2y ago
deleted tweets for reference: https://i.imgur.com/u3cBdH1.png https://i.imgur.com/PyaIMkA.png
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by ookblah 2y ago
He apparently will just have his followers/employees write them by proxy and then "boost" them lol.
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by ookblah 2y ago
not that it should matter in "principle", but the stupid thing to me is that he's not some small time developer trying to make ends meet. he's extracted quite a bit from from it... in the hundreds of millions, but it&#x
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by ookblah 2y ago
It's just "value capture" at this point. WPEngine is much larger than his own for-profit and the market is prob tapping out, which has got to be frustrating. There is much more to be made for him scorching the earth and eith

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