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The arabic word for "azul" is أزرق (azraq) so they all look pretty adjacent.

Apple also hosts a copy of Claude internally in their servers.

It seems the BBC documentary link also returns a 404. https://www.mailplus.co.uk/tv-guide/tv/394562/crashed-800m-f...

That’s a rude and terrible thing to say about someone you don’t know. I guess hiding behind anonymity gives people courage.

Because not everything run from a terminal.

The kind of takes that promote the stereotypes of self-centered americans.

What stops the DoW from going after me? As a Middle Easterner? And once it's done with me, why wouldn't it go after you? as its branches did, locally?

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Do you think that writing Delphi, a language no one is buying, makes you hardworking?

Google couldn’t cut ties to genocide let alone local police.

Is this in office job or does it support remote?

This lecture from John Green is a great full summary on the history of TB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gxaie6UI He's also publishing a book about it https://www.penguinrandom…

> is the spread even between groups, or does it skew towards some groups over others? Spread mostly evenly. I'm not sure I'm allowed to share tenure, I'm mostly going to share what…

Division is probably the wrong term used, we have several divisions, you can categorize them into 2 categories: - WordPress ecosystem (majority). Around 80% of the company. - Non-W…

Any company has low perfomers, if you denay that, then I can't really engage with you here. Low performances usually go on a performance improvement plan (which almost half who ent…

The whole drama is not done, but the colleagues and friends leaving all at once is done, and that was stressful, you don't know who's leaving next until you see their name.

You seem to never been in that shoe (from a country no one hires from). Companies avoid that because it’s too much hassle. Automattic cares and goes through the hassle, simple as t…

Yes I am. I’m not spinning anyone. Several of my friends took the offer, they were unhappy, it was great timing. I support them 100%.

WordPress division doesn’t mean the open source one, it means anyone working on WordPress related products, like jetpack, Woo, VIP, dotcom… The rest work on non-wp like tumblr, day…

The offer had no limits (someone who was at the company for 2 days took it). Matt was also willing to continue sponsoring visa for the 6 months for whoever is on an work visa. This…

Fun part, Automattic already gives you 3 months sabbatical every 5 years. For the people who were going to take sabbatical, they got those 3 months off.

Getting remote jobs in general is tricky if you're not from certain countries. I'm from Algeria, Automattic was one of the few companies that hired there. Every other country would…

Automattic is a fully remote company, getting jobs in APAC, Africa, and europe is tricky, not a lot are going to throw that away and hunt for a job for 6 months.

Plenty of people who took the offer were on the fence already or looking to switch companies anyway, it was a good motivator for them.