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  5. Comment on Shouting in the Datacenter [makes disk operations take longer] in ~comp

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    Brendan Gregg (the person in the video) has also made some great stuff, including a book on performance and a (related) book on the Berkeley Packet Filter.

    Brendan Gregg (the person in the video) has also made some great stuff, including a book on performance and a (related) book on the Berkeley Packet Filter.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible in ~finance

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    When you deposit money in a bank at one level what you are doing is more akin to obtaining an "IOU" from the bank than putting money in a vault. At some level it's not correct to think of bank...

    When you deposit money in a bank at one level what you are doing is more akin to obtaining an "IOU" from the bank than putting money in a vault. At some level it's not correct to think of bank deposits as "money" (transactions are kind shifting who owes who money rather than moving money from A to B) – but this is really painful, so the government has basically guaranteed all depositors to the hilt at this point.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork in ~tech

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    I maintain that even if this is his issue, his way of going about it has been really dumb. Asking them to pay the money to WPEngine reeks of self-interest. Making changes (unilaterally) overnight...

    Matt’s been trying to get, and been promised WPEngine would make contributions to WP since at least 2018 - and has the emails to show it.

    I maintain that even if this is his issue, his way of going about it has been really dumb. Asking them to pay the money to WPEngine reeks of self-interest. Making changes (unilaterally) overnight isn't a way to create stability for businesses. If this was really his issue, he should have taken the time to set up a proper non-profit structure (some kind of WordPress community foundation/fund) that has board elections from the community, and rules to restrict one company from gaining too much control. Then he could have moved WordPress.org infrastructure to this, and then the foundation could have said "to use our WordPress.org repositories as a large managed host – any host, not just WPEngine – you need to donate x hours of work/US$y in order to access our hosting." This would be reasonable. What Matt has done is not.

    Matt used to be a part owner in WPEngine.
    WPEngine has recently been bought by private equity and has become an even worse actor in the business since.

    I understand he sold his shares to Silver Lake? This is kind of on him (it's not like he doesn't have a good private banker and access to financial advice). But I'm unclear that WordPress.com isn't (effectively) a private equity setup (they're backed by a lot of VC money).

    12 votes

  17. Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork in ~tech

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    I don't know much about this space, but I imagine there's a reason clients keep picking them.

    I don't know much about this space, but I imagine there's a reason clients keep picking them.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork in ~tech

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    Yes, but WPEngine has always focused on high value, large clients whereas wordpress.com has focussed on smaller ones. wpvip and pressable (post acquisition) appear to be Automattic's competitors...

    Yes, but WPEngine has always focused on high value, large clients whereas wordpress.com has focussed on smaller ones. wpvip and pressable (post acquisition) appear to be Automattic's competitors in this space.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork in ~tech

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    I thought it was https://wpvip.com/ and not https://wordpress.com (which has been around since 2005) which was the competitor to WPEngine?

    I thought it was https://wpvip.com/ and not https://wordpress.com (which has been around since 2005) which was the competitor to WPEngine?

    1 vote