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All of this I agree with.

Oh fuck off, I am not Matt and it should be obvious. > so why is it so unlikely that he could have potentially hired people to write code that he claimed under his moniker? Sure an…

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??? This is a fair bit of silliness now I'm afraid. Like him or loathe him (and he's making it so very easy to do the latter), Mullenweg was one of the only developers of WP for ye…

IIRC yes.

Whatever the latest move is, it's clearly a dick move. He is in a bad place, if he wins anything it is going to be a pyrrhic victory, and he needs to stop. If he really does still …

> Mullenweg is a cuckoo. He did not create Wordpress and yet has managed to closely associate the product with his own persona and ever since has spent most of his life wringing mo…

Like clockwork. The HN community's response to the Raspberry Pi is the most sustained example of tech industry gift-horse-examination I can think of. Here they are with a wide rang…

Netscape didn't just try to "latch onto" the popularity of Java. Netscape _and_ Sun, together, called it JavaScript. The point was that the renamed language had rudimentary binding…

Everything old is new again.

Except they didn’t merge patches from RealThunder’s fork for TNP, for example. They used it as a guide and reference implementation and wrote a new implementation. In general they …

It’s also true of transfers (changes) on routine journeys in most of the world I would have thought. Because almost all services are regular. It is the arrival time at your destina…

> if your train leaves at 0700 you can’t plan to get there at 06:59 Millions of train commuters in the UK optimise for just this sort of thing. Not one minute before, because the d…

This is indeed closest to Men's Shed, which is a fairly global phenomenon: https://menssheds.org.uk

> For this reason I think WFH is a massively more risky social experiment than most realize. It works for folks who were either already inclined to "go out and do things" or those …

If you don't have "interests" that is in its way a separate question, and it is one that is worth addressing on its own. It is shockingly common, in the modern world, to have only …

> The solutionism exhibited in discussions like this flies in the face of reality. The solution I identify in my comments does not fly in the face of reality, because it is how I w…

> But let's be honest, you normal people can smell when someone isn't part of their tribe, even with a good mask on. I am a long way from normal and it worked for me. People genuin…