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MPetitt

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About MPetitt

UI Developer Washington DC

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    Comment #21736980

    I think he was proposing using the TENS for muscle control similarly to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYpD428hAQ

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    Comment #21418458

    This is some MRA BS. No one has it easy, but to say society doesn’t care about men’s issues is laughable. If you’re complaining about not taking up most college slots or “being moc…

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    Comment #21249605

    Feels like a combo? https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-question

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    Comment #20576692

    I usually hate the lazy and dismissive "what's the difference between this and x" comments, but as a UX/Design focused UI developer, I think I'm part of the target market for this.…

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    Comment #20229472

    Anecdotal but most companies I’ve worked with that use Slack, 1. Don’t give devs company phones (and no one should ring my personal cell) 2. Have remote people they communicate wit…

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    Comment #20149834

    "It’s for this reason that I didn’t ask Salameh to tell me about his crimes. The harm he caused should not be forgotten, but it must be held apart. Under international law, the rig…

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    Comment #19017842

    He was possibly referring to the XSS "acronym" that the author of the library uses both in the code and in the example. https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet/search?q=xss

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    Comment #18081568

    If you’re interested in the history of stuff like this be sure to look into Beaver and Krause ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_%26_Krause ). If you recognize the THX sound …

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    Comment #15836492

    That is a gross false equivalence. Gender, not sex. No democrat will deny that your XX/XY chromosome differentiates you for sexual reproduction. Gender on the other hand, which is …

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    Comment #15836356

    I know this sounds like a meme at this point, but when the "partisan" dividing line is science denial and twitter flame wars with foreign leaders... "reality has a well-known liber…

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    Comment #15834687

    70 Years ago: "I don't think being required to prove you're a literate citizen with a test is suppression of the will of the people" If you look at the people affected it's clear t…

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    Comment #15593932

    Thats an extremely oversimplified if not revisionist accusation against Duranty and the NYT. https://www.nytco.com/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pu...

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    Comment #11196937

    I think we are, let me know if this works for you. http://www.amazon.com/CuriosityStream/dp/B017C70WHE

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    Comment #11196933

    I agree, and since our DARPA stuff did really well the content guys have been working on getting more tech and robotics stuff. We're currently brainstorming ways to have more effec…

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    Comment #11196909

    Nope, same content, same device support, quality is the only difference.

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    Comment #11196907

    Unfortunately most tech in that space seems to be proprietary but here are some companies we have found doing cool stuff in the space. Hola CDN Streamroot Peer5 Conviva Cedexis I t…

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    Comment #11182530

    Wow, that looks fantastic. We just actually hired our first UX/UI designer and are working on redesigns of EVERYTHING.

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    Comment #11182504

    There is some Geo-Blocking, but luckily most of our content is available internationally. When purchasing content, we try to get rights to as many countries as possible. You can pr…

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    Comment #11182470

    Thanks for the feedback! So all of those are pixels that we use for marketing to do 2 things. 1st is to track conversion coming from our ad's on those platforms. 2nd is remarket to…

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    Comment #11177519

    We just opened up our library recently and are working incorporating it and the content into our funnel.

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    Comment #11176747

    Sorry to hear that, like we said, we're working as quickly as possible to get an HTML5 compatible player up.