Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

Posted on Feb 20

What does MLH stand for?

#jokes #watercooler #discuss #mlh

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With dev.to's news of joining with MLH, I want to know more about the community we're now a part of.

I want to know what MLH stands for.

I always thought it was the name of a game: Marry Lick Hug

Is that right?

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Sylwia Laskowska

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In Poland we already have MLH and it stands for Make Life Harder 🙃

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haha oh no!

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lmao

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Meme Loving Hackers

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Mystical Laser Hamsters

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Awful answers only!

Almost missed that part.

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rofl

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Microservices, Lol Help 😂

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This meme is too true 😂

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Dev.to is My Little Home

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Machines Liquidate Humans

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I see. A harbinger of our mechanistic overlords 😨

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This made me LOL hard XD

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lol

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hahahah, subscribed

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My Loving Husband

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