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Re:Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:05AM (#22703383)
I've been using WordPress for 4 years with good scaling and no downtime. It's only "slow as hell" if you don't actually know WordPress (which most WordPress users don't). ;)
Re:Ask HN: Why do so many people have a problem with Oracle? on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:51AM (#21783180)
I think it's because they are perceived to be focused on marketing, keeping special interest groups happy at the expense of others, and patent trolling and not so much on creating truly good products, IHMO. I can't objectively measure how much of that perception is actually true, but their subscription model for Java, their systemic underpayment of their women employees, and their frivolous lawsuit against Google didn't help.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."