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  • If you come at the king, you better not miss (c) Omar Little
    by gadders
  • Again, the one thing I love the most about Python is the lack of drama. I don’t want to be forced to practice Drama-driven Development.
    by rbanffy
  • 1. Wow his profile picture is so extremely fluorescent

    2. I guess I should move my blog off Wordpress

    by pinkmuffinere
  • It says he has 84% of the voting shares. Is there any possible way that the board could have been successful? Regardless of Mullenberg, (and I know he's controversial) a coup that is pre-ordained to fail seems like value destroying negligence.
    by flerchin
  • Automattic was the most bizarre collection of chucklefucks I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with. They contracted with me to write a Wordpress plugin that would import Flickr libraries, which would have bankrupted anyone with a significantly large image set based on wordpress.com's pricing back in the Obama years.

    I never spoke to a single human being when I worked for them, and all of my technical questions in their Skype dev channel went unanswered. It feels insane to me that this is still a functioning company.

    by ceautery
  • I'm surprised anyone still uses wordpress after this whole sh!tshow, but outside HN folks probably don't even know. Just reading about it about it puts me off from the product and company.
    by bastard_op
  • How did the board plan pull this off if Mullenweg has 84% of the voting shares? For that matter, what is even the purpose of a board in a multi-class share structure with the founder holding above 50% voting shares.
    by betteryet
  • Fireship pointed out that the board members gave themselves a generous severance package in the very brief interim, so that was very possibly the whole plan.
    by xnx

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