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Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by BlueTemplar »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #441
BlueTemplar wrote: post #436

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You misunderstand, it's more that I have a very limited knowledge of web programming : besides dumb HTML+CSS, only a small project using JQuery and (then bleeding edge) async JavaScript on the frontend, Python on the server, and... CGI for the communication between them. So I was literally trying to know more. (And I understand a bit better now, thanks.)

Sorry. I consider CGI to be sort of a “failed experiment of the past,” sort of like Server-Side Includes (shtml). What CGI does, is let anything that can write to a pipe, publish on the Web (you could write a web app with Bash). I think that anything that will interact with remote browsers, should go through a Webserver. Many utilities actually have their own built-in webservers (not sure that’s always a good thing).

But why is it a failed experiment ?

Because the simplicity results in various footguns, just like most programmers probably shouldn't use C these days ?

("Webserver" sounds like an extra layer on top, like how Python allows you to (mostly) forget about memory handling issues ?)

Is it also because simplicity either doesn't add performance here, or is it just because the performance is rarely needed ?

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #451
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. I consider CGI to be sort of a “failed experiment of the past,” sort of like Server-Side Includes (shtml). What CGI does, is let anything that can write to a pipe, publish on the Web (you could write a web app with Bash). I think that anything that will interact with remote browsers, should go through a Webserver. Many utilities actually have their own built-in webservers (not sure that’s always a good thing).

But why is it a failed experiment ? Because the simplicity results in various footguns, just like most programmers probably shouldn't use C these days ? ("Webserver" sounds like an extra layer on top, like how Python allows you to (mostly) forget about memory handling issues ?) Is it also because simplicity either doesn't add performance here, or is it just because the performance is rarely needed ?

Let me rephrase that: It’s not “failed,” per se, but it is inaccessible.

It’s what systems programmers would like, because we don’t like things that get in the way. However, most folks aren’t systems programmers. They want padding and safety nets.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by presspot »

jasonm23 wrote: post #448
throwpoaster wrote: post #409

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Engaging with reality as directly as possible is important in business. Emotions are a part of reality, usually a signal about social dynamics. At the higher levels of serious companies — by which I mean ones trying to win in the market, regardless of size - managers and executives regularly receive training about this. I can’t say more because this is my alt, but: “executives are childish”, “executives are psychopat…

> If anything executives should be straightforward and simple. Except they almost NEVER are, in fact, the most common trait shown by executives is dishonesty.

Really? That does not sound like an opinion derived from real data.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by egypturnash »

system2 wrote: post #363
egypturnash wrote: post #12

matt please get your brain worms dealt with, thank you - someone who has been happily using wordpress for her site since about 2000

I am not supporting either side, but wpengine is a shit company that treats their customers like they are sheeple. They remove critical functions from the original WordPress, selling $1 worth of hosting for $79. Not providing a "hosting" environment but only providing one site per account (additional sites are billed). This is a shitty hosting platform using WordPress' name and not benefiting WordPress itself. I had…

I just use Wordpress on my own hosting. If not for this whole feud I don't think I'd ever have heard of wpengine. shrug

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by mvandermeulen »

ismail wrote: post #333
jjmarr wrote: post #317

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There's no other nationality in the world where commenting in the subreddit devoted to that country results in being automatically banned from other subreddits.

I am not surprised. With the amount of misinformation that is produced and disseminated from the highest levels of israeli society. See my other posts on 1) Zionism = racist / supremacist ideology 2) misinformation 3) links to a documentary demonstrating how people are being awakened to the truth (and how they realise they have been lied to) Israelism film on YouTube 4) psyops campaigns both against their own citizen…

Russia does all of the things you’re alluding to at arguably a much greater scale.

Also as you’ve outlined, plenty of the misinformation is targeted at Israeli citizens themselves and banning those people from the opportunity to engage outside of their bubble makes no logical or moral sense

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