NostraDavid

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

ThePrimeagen invited Matt to explain what's going on.

TL;DW Matt's claim is that he tried to get WP Engine to pay for a Trademark license (or whatever it's called - I'm recalling from watching yesterday), over several months, and they tried to legally block him in every way. Their self-claimed contributions to Wordpress were (as he tells it) that they held conferences where they promoted their own stuff only - code contributions have been minimal.

So the combination of not willing to pay for the trademark + not contributing back (not in code, not in helping the community) is Matt's reasoning for blocking them from using Wordpress' resources.

He also mentioned that he has good relations with other Wordpress hosts, so it's not like he's trying to block anyone else from hosting, but they were all willing to pay for the use of the Trademark (and/or contribute back).

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are YT courses available to support the book. Or rather, the book exists to support the courses:

Don't mind the ages of these series - I watched them in full, and they're generally still relevant. I say generally because I'm not sure if I'll ever use a Tango Tree, but who knows!

PS: If you're not sure if you don't know the required Math, I created a graph of all MIT courses with YT videos here. The courses on the left are dependencies for those to the right.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"“It was very annoying,” says Ms Rosenberg. “I had 10 minutes to do that and nobody saw the last ones that I did were much better.” Jane Rosenberg was much happier with this sketch of Caroline Ellison which attracted far less attention than one she had 10 minutes to draw.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Well, she did tell that she didn't get a budget, so they just effectively stole from other departments. Want a table that's not bolted down? Take it.

But that's Navy internals, (arguably) not a massive for-profit company that's going it out of sheer greed.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was more thinking of Melanie's Milk of the Siren (Warning: depiction of rape, revenge, and gore, not necessarily in that order. I don't normally give off warnings, but this video goes 0-100 REAL fucking fast).

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

That reminds me to read all his public letters (available on the website you just linked) soon. Using TTS, because that's all too much text for my poor brain to handle.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Head First Java is also nice to learn OOP as well! Don't worry that you're learning an older version of Java. It's good to know the old style, because not all Java code is fancy schmancy new ;)

Out of a lot of series I've read, the Head First is really geared towards beginners. Highly recommended for beginner to intermediate programmers.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I am going to toot my own horn... Or rather: MIT's horn.

https://thaumatorium.com/articles/mit-courses/mit.drawio.svg

This is a graph of most of MIT's CompSci courses, where the lines are dependencies. If you want to learn something on the right, learn the connected things on the left.

While there are video courses, the top link in each block links to MIT pages where they tend to recommend books for each course. The algorithm courses recommend "Introductions into Algorithms, Fourth Edition", for example.

I hope it helps (even if I don't think this is the be-all end-all to your question).

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"descent"; being decent is luckily not punishable with death 😂

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

‘communist’ has been a hot word since the 50s

Make it 1939, if you live in Eastern Europe.

 

Ladybird, the browser from SerentityOS, now has a non-profit behind it! The guy in the video is not Andreas, but Chris Wanstrath (former CEO from Github), and he's pumping some financial backing into this non-profit.

I for one am happy we're getting an alternative to the Chrome/Firefox duality we're stuck with.

https://ladybird.org/

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