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by themarkn 8y ago
At 15 I sat with a book about QBASIC and got to a certain point, got stuck, and had nobody around me to ask for help and no idea what to do. I decided I wasn't smart enough for programming and stuck to basic html and CSS for years and
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by themarkn 9y ago
User expectations about a deletion would probably be "make it as though this was never uploaded": no copy, no backup, no recoverable form whatsoever. And yet, if it was not deleted, and there was a problem requiring backups to b
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by themarkn 9y ago
> you have to digress from the norm to be relevant while staying within the lines to be part of the genre, and eventually you end up with garbage. > nobody's giving awards to derivative and boring, so guess what you're going
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by themarkn 9y ago
I've used one in the past to organize my monthly routine. Seeing the "size" of my expectations for each week helps a lot. I used text2mindmap for this and a few other things. Didn't realize it was down, thanks for this!
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by themarkn 9y ago
>I am an individual, not "part of a system". Simply being a driver doesn't make me a reckless or dangerous one. For example, 10K of those deaths involve DUI, and I am certainly not part of that system. I'm sure 95% of
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by themarkn 9y ago
I find it useful for tracking people who attend music camps I run, whatever they have chosen, paid for, dietary issues etc. It’s very friendly for setting up things like Booleans, formulas, different types of data, without having to know mu
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by themarkn 9y ago
Having dabbled in web development for 15+ years, I feel like there can be a lot of pain involved in getting a dev environment set up and configured correctly for a project these days. But to me it is worth it: the resulting workflow becomes
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by themarkn 9y ago
I just got one of those warnings yesterday and found it very useful. Shame you were not permitted to continue the work you had planned to do on that! It was a worthwhile idea.
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by themarkn 9y ago
My objections are not with Facebook really. I'm willing to make the tradeoffs that are required to participate in Facebook. I wish it were better, but Facebook is responding to incentives and is rewarded for its actions, so it's h
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by themarkn 9y ago
Even at mbasic.facebook.com? This is how I do all my messaging these days.
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by themarkn 9y ago
It's a common thing now for a comment on some text to identify done objectionable line and say "stopped reading after you said react was a framework not a library" or whatever. It's a really condescending way to indicate
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by themarkn 9y ago
People are so complicated that most "tests" like this, to see how somebody responds, strike me as useless. You are not in a controlled environment, and pretending you are is foolish. You might get a reaction and presume to know th
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by themarkn 9y ago
I'm not sure I follow your second example. I might need more detail to understand how grid-auto-columns ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/grid-auto-c... ) does not meet this use case?
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by themarkn 9y ago
I think the parent new all this and was saying that when using flexbox with grid, each for their intended purpos, there are bugs in various browsers for them.
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by themarkn 9y ago
It's not something that would be done as the only thing that influences the final fonts size. As another comment pointed out, it could be combined with calc(). But also, within media queries, to achieve reasonable results in various wi
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by themarkn 9y ago
I tend to be really solid on the ins and outs of what I'm working on right now, or in the last year. And on stuff older than that I have a good idea of the landscape and the location of certain gotchas, but I find I have to Google cert
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by themarkn 9y ago
> Their reactions were, 'why can't it do this', or 'are you going to fix the graphics?' ie very un-impressed, and honestly quite dis-spiriting. I had this from my boss saying "I thought it was just going to
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by themarkn 9y ago
I listen to this when working sometimes too, especially if I'm struggling to focus because of other distractions.
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by themarkn 9y ago
I mean everybody wants this but even the greatest ‘self-managers’ need management to do stuff like this: - put their work in context - remove dumb obstacles for them - ensure that they are working in ways that benefit the team - check they
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by themarkn 9y ago
Took me a while to get used to but now I prefer HTML this way too. It makes it really easy to understand what's happening at a glance.
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by themarkn 9y ago
Wow, I just though that was the end of the content but you are right!
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by themarkn 9y ago
Those are definitely better examples! And I take your point that we may be in a period that will be looked back on as overkill when it comes to design.
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by themarkn 9y ago
Most of the actual content (the letters etc) on the Berkshire Hathaway site is in PDFs. Many are long documents with no navigation built in that are very awkward to read on mobile... As much as it's a nice example of a functioning bare
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by themarkn 9y ago
Wow, if the receiving businesses could write off those services provided as donations to that nonprofit, there could be some incentive on their side too to make some kind of credit/voucher system for social-good professions work out. I
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by themarkn 9y ago
The overall benefits are huge: we also generate thousands of hours of volunteer service a year by helping people stay active by putting in time at foodbanks, cleaning thrift stores, what have you. Keeps everybody healthier, reduces cost to
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by themarkn 9y ago
I'm a manager at a nonprofit serving adults with developmental disabilities. We do a really good job, we work in supported employment, residential, getting out the community, helping with diet, groceries, supervising medications, etc.