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by ookblah 2y ago
I don't know why i keep popping into these WP related threads, gotta take a break... Apparently also just read that he used the .org to push a post promoting alternative WPEngine hosting to his affiliates. I have no clue what is going
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by ookblah 2y ago
but content is sacred right? /s he can link to his original post and put the clarification alongside if that's the case. i can change my mind if his actions show he's trying to do "right", but that takes time. for
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by ookblah 2y ago
I mean that problem does exist as a whole, but in this specific case this has nothing to do with some scrappy open source project not being able fund itself. Automattic is a 7.5 billion dollar company with ~800 million in rev lol. The &quo
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by ookblah 2y ago
i think the original got taken down but you can find it on archive or just searching around
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by ookblah 2y ago
Been randomly thinking about it since this whole thing started, and beyond the drama it's clear that whether legal or not, Matt intends to use the trademark as a weapon to serve his purposes. If you just look at the timeline and even t
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by ookblah 2y ago
then release your software with more restrictive terms?
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by ookblah 2y ago
he could be all of them? i'm basing this off the fact that he was able to run and build it up to what it is today, then suddenly going off the rails. more of me grasping at an explanation than a declaration of truth heh.
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by ookblah 2y ago
he must be having a legit mental breakdown. i do not understand any of these decisions done so haphazardly with no regard to users or their current situation, even if that was the direction they were moving. basically, telegraphing that h
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by ookblah 2y ago
isn't firm growth just a symptom of the issue? which i guess the article is describing. sometimes i feel like the best short-term path forward for a poor country is just to have some kind of heavy handed gov't (like a "benevo
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by ookblah 2y ago
currently AI focus is very narrow. I treat it like a junior dev where it can repeat structure it's given and then I basically "approve" it or I use it like a super robust autocomplete where it knows what I'm writing nex
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by ookblah 2y ago
honestly, just read this and his initial post about the whole issue (content is "sacred" or whatever) and it's clear he's semi-deluded himself into thinking he has massive support and/or more important in the grand
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by ookblah 2y ago
ban the advertising around it
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by ookblah 2y ago
revisit this in a few years
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by ookblah 2y ago
while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back, if Mullenweg were serious about gaining support from the community he would give a date for people to migrate their systems off of WPEngine before they blocked it. this jus
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by ookblah 2y ago
reproducibility isn't just on your deployments, it's for development too. got old REAL fast when your fancy build doesn't work the same on every devs device or some one off issue with how your dev has setup their environmen
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by ookblah 2y ago
so how do people vet information and maintain this skepticism without devolving into full conspiracy-esque "trust no one", "everyone has an agenda" type thinking?
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by ookblah 2y ago
no offense (okay, maybe some), but how is this even a question lol... fire immediately. it's not something tangential like communication, but about someone lacking the core skill that you are paying for.
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by ookblah 2y ago
something like over half the population of korea lives in the seoul metro area so it's not surprising that it's dense there. it's like if NYC was suffering from this and you posted a pic of a crowded subway at rush hour clai
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by ookblah 2y ago
for korea at least: - culture that prioritizes "status" heavily. this manifests as a consumerist/materialist society. everybody wanting designer clothes, live in a nice apt complex, go to the best colleges, drive a nice car
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by ookblah 2y ago
yeah, disagree. IMO for better or worse, Apple's MO has always been establishing a "premium" image aka the Apple tax and letting things trickle down. Specifically targeting low end phones is a race to the bottom and cheape
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by ookblah 3y ago
You can only sell shovels as long as people are making or have the hope of striking gold. NVIDIA destroying earnings means nothing because they are just selling shovels as fast as they can. This "bubble", if it is one, will pop
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by ookblah 3y ago
uh yeah, i remember it quite differently. everyone was dismissive of the ipad...i remember even thinking how phones were getting bigger and what was the point.
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by ookblah 3y ago
i'm going to guess that this is korean protectionism at work under the guise of valid regulation. look at the Apple location services, google maps, uber/lyft, etc. basically any industry that could have a "home grown"
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by ookblah 3y ago
i've seen this comment almost verbatim somewhere lol (when the gitlab dev erased their DB a few years ago)
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by ookblah 3y ago
lol, the more i go through life i feel like it's just blind leading the blind at times w/ the "winners" escaping through a bizarre length of time and survivorship bias. if you've ever doubted your ability to govern
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by ookblah 3y ago
people can have multiple overlapping reasons for things, it doesn't have to be they are on "sam's side" or the "board's side" or whatever. you can agree w/ a firing and for whatever reason disagree w
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by ookblah 3y ago
well maybe you personally shouldn't? like i said, not fair to compare a $20 meal where you're probably not going to die on a hill over 50 cents of perceived labor vs. a $1M house. You're also free to buck societal conventi
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by ookblah 3y ago
fine, but let's not compare meal cost to a house. that 6% is very arbitrary. i never got how selling a home in a major metropolitan area would require 10 times as much work for a realtor than a house in the middle of nowhere midwest
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by ookblah 3y ago
do kwon next
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by ookblah 3y ago
made it 5 slides in before closing. this kind of stuff is like early 2010s level marketing lol. edit: which now makes sense! didn't see the date.

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