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Jake Caputo
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Jake Caputo writes Design Crumbs, a personal blog at designcrumbs.com about design, web and career. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Automatically Blackballed”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jake Caputo's posts as the source for the debate over WordPress.org banning Envato-affiliated developers from WordCamp events, and his post on being blackballed. The comments do not assess the writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- Automatically Blackballed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-01-22
What Hacker News says?
I had a brief discussion with Matt in the comments on the source ( http://www.designcrumbs.com/automatically-blackballed#commen... ) and tried to get him to explain why a split-license was bad. Here is a quote: 'While legally you can make a technical argument that in a theme the PHP, CSS, JS, and images are separate things, from the point of view of a user they make up a single unit of usefulness, one “thing.” Users…
Comment linking /automatically-blackballed
on “WP org bans Envato members from WordCamp gatherings”Submitted Automatically Blackballed as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThe problem with this is that there is an actual legal GPL license but also what is referred to as the "spirit" of GPL. WTF "spirit" is comes down to whatever the founder wants it to be, in this case Matt has decided to target developers instead of addressing the issue with Envato or the community. It has created a confusing situation with good people stuck in the middle. Why was Jake Caputo singled out, several Wor…
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on “WP org bans Envato members from WordCamp gatherings”Submitted Automattically Blackballed as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automattically Blackballed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher education and web design as a story · 2 points
HN discussion