{"id":26067,"date":"2016-04-26T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26067"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:00:55","slug":"bad-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/26\/bad-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad project"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commitstrip.com\/en\/2016\/04\/25\/not-even-for-all-the-gold-in-the-world\/\">CommitStrip<\/a> nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/26\/bad-project\/bad-project\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project.jpg?fit=650%2C609&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,609\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bad project\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project.jpg?fit=650%2C609&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26068\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project-500x468.jpg?resize=500%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bad project\" width=\"500\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project.jpg?resize=500%2C468&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bad-project.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember reading an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a> (though can&#8217;t seem to find a reference now), where he said that this sort of thing happened with <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a>. \u00a0People were asking them for commercial support, but they didn&#8217;t want to do it, so they started with an insane amount of like $5,000 per month and all of a sudden found themselves with a queue of people outside.<\/p>\n<p>And they were not alone, of course.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>CommitStrip nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project &#8230; I remember reading an interview with Matt Mullenweg (though can&#8217;t seem to find a reference now), where he said that this sort of thing happened with Automattic. \u00a0People were asking them for commercial support, but they didn&#8217;t want to do it, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/26\/bad-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bad project #work #business #humor #comics","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,60],"tags":[1968,473,2418,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-wordpress","tag-business","tag-comics","tag-humor","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CommitStrip nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project ... 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