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MDCore

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About MDCore

Bristol, UK

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    Comment #49112546

    I went to school with a 30cm ruler in the 80s. As a result I have an instinctual sense for that length.

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    Comment #48950832

    > Modern internet culture has steadily moved from mild expressions to drama, hyperbole and overwhelm. rofl

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    Comment #48944461

    Legacy pebbles still work great with rebble.io. I still use my pebble time daily connected to my android phone.

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    Comment #48759018

    > A company facing market dynamism, price competition... Is unlikely to be investing billions in speculative r&d, for example. The comparison to manufacturing isn't necessary becau…

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    Comment #48734945

    You're misapplying your evaluation here. The most you might say is "don't take front-end Dec advice from them". Instead of discarding the whole thing, just take what's good and lea…

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    Comment #48624178

    Many years ago I was a junior developer building cms-backed websites. I had the idea to recreate the database inside the database i.e. tblTables has lists of tables, tblColumns had…

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    Comment #48375316

    Aside: start getting that exposure to management people now. You can book regular skip levels with your bosses boss and the PMs boss. Better than waiting until you get promoted and…

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    Comment #48366993

    It's not so much invalidating Bitcoin - Bitcoin is valid and effective. Unfortunately what it is extremely effective for is money laundering and tax evasion (which was what your or…

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    Comment #48334866

    Yes they are relevant. From the article, skills like "accessibility, progressive enhancement, network performance, interface design and user testing" are relevant to the ultimate g…

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    Comment #48334711

    The sea of divs and the abandonment of HTMLs is a result of the poorly built frameworks. Actual HTML and CSS has not abandoned those core ideas, and the frameworks often reimplemen…

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    Comment #47733958

    You might find this paper interesting: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-022-09626-7 ".. preferences for popular music peak during early adolescence or mid-to-late t…

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    Comment #47429171

    I couldn't do the mandatory onboarding training at a job once because the course web app had heavy scroll fade, and I got nauseous after a few minutes. I tried every few hours for …

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    Comment #47321410

    I tried a web search for "Minimal text editor" and Minimal vs Obsidian" and couldn't find any results that seemed to be an obsidian or notion equivalent.

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    Comment #47198296

    It's obvious from the context here what the intended meaning was. Everyone makes typos sometimes.

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    Comment #46146675

    I think this Veritasium video might speak to your questions: https://youtu.be/XX7PdJIGiCw?si=5lwB3rsFNKuXyMfA

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    Comment #45675086

    What you're describing is making work useful, not meaningful. More people nowadays are rejecting work that has no meaning, connection to identity and makes no use of their intellec…

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    Comment #45290593

    I had a problem where it was not possible to include people from different organisations. Once you have more than one external organisation involved, I have to manage how they join…

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    Comment #43935136

    I hear you about these being a bunch of different branches of Christianity. But the difference between branches of Protestantism and Catholicism is old and significant. It'd be lik…

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    Comment #10817770

    Uh, what? The article is on a site called coolmomtech.com. The article is going to be about kids because it's aimed at mom's.

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    Comment #10764707

    Those darn millennials even think they invented being jaded hipsters.

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    Comment #10746468

    I like this concept, now how does one tell the difference between a tenacious insider with a crazy idea that just might work, and a tenacious insider with a horrible idea that they…

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    Comment #10692439

    Are you wishing that the current usage of the word (the title you linked to) would stop, and that usage would revert to the older Latin meaning? Unfortunately that's not how langua…

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    Comment #10567473

    The title needs a (2014)

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    Comment #10565382

    This seems to be an advertorial. Even when it talks about what's missing it shrugs it off like an unrealistic demand: > The one feature I really find lacking in Music is the abilit…

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    Comment #10068950

    In the README: > Another warning: data-harvesting-services-removal.bat will be flagged as malware, since it tries to automatically alter the hosts file. You can either allow it, or…