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mattholtom

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About mattholtom

@codeandiron www.mattholtom.com www.codeandiron.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #10192269

    Nice to see it's not just me with this frustration. I had the same problem with my Sammy LNT4061. One capacitor and 5 years later, and it's still going strong. If only my Kobo aura…

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    Comment #8856871

    This is absolutely beautiful and makes me believe I'm living in the future.

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    Comment #8344173

    Came here to see this. I expected to see a well reasoned argument for functional programming and how entrenched the OO mentality is. What's the mess we're in again?

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    Comment #8139353

    Glad I'm not the only one that thinks driving should be a full time activity. If you don't have a personal chauffeur, you are not important enough to need your phone while driving.…

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    Comment #7465611

    Slow lane folks, I sleep like a baby.

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    Comment #7458082

    Who needs to write code to get the lowest price? The floors are in the JS source.

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    Comment #7431306

    I didn't get a "don't pursue certain technologies in order to protect certain industries" vibe from the article. Most here will agree that is futile. There will always be someone w…

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    Comment #7422850

    Was anyone else waiting for the Crimean peninsula to turn a slightly darker pink at the end there? Oh wait, that's tomorrow...

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    Comment #7407568

    I have a suspicion that once they encounter and solve all of the challenges associated with building houses (mold, cost, weather, a second floor) they will end up approaching a pre…

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    Comment #7391488

    The giveforward site is now really active. I hope it is load friendly because it is being hugged very hard right now..

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    Comment #7376859

    Dude, what a mechanic that is! Just spent 1/2 hour in no time. Expand featureset, apply to PSN, profit.

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    Comment #7367370

    He noticed that "self" is the root of "selfie"... Deep insight here folks.

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    Comment #7187012

    Very cool, one of those sites you can very easily spend a 1/2 hour on without realizing it...

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    Comment #7131848

    Cool, nothing wrong with going to the bare metal for Gmaps in simple applications. If you find yourself doing any complex marker or polygon manipulation Gmaps-for-rails is really w…

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    Comment #7131713

    She's back! Nice job, Jennifer. The one place I think the 180 previous helped you build massive skill is in UI design. Simple and snappy. What are you using for geo-coding and mapp…

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    Comment #7027003

    git push harder?

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    Comment #6901033

    Haha! This article is doing a number on my impostor syndrome.

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    Comment #6870918

    A few years ago I tried to eliminate every possible trace of my real name online. It just doesn't work, there will always be something. So I gave up. Now I just try and make sure t…

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    Comment #6853699

    Have fun closing your account by the way, I went through that fiasco recently. I regularly run the LastPass security challenge and an old email of mine was in the Adobe breach too.…

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    Comment #6834158

    Hey I made something like this a while back too! Except I'm not so sure mine is "Reverse" PN, it might just be standard PN... https://github.com/codeandiron/calculator

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    Comment #6808504

    Does no-one answer phone calls from their Mom anymore? Just me?

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    Comment #6767306

    We can help in some small way. Advocate for the use of password managers like LastPass and KeePass that use a different securely generated pw for each site.

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    Comment #6755416

    Heh, no. It was as a take home coding project (in my earlier and dumber years, I would never do this now). This was after one business and two technical phone screeners. Then after…