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tholmes

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About tholmes

I solve problems and write code.

http://thomas.holmes.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #13946476

    That's not a problem. The point in the tax code is to prevent offloading the tax liability by classifying people who are rightfully employees as contractors instead. I'm reasonably…

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    Comment #13445099

    It rebooted on my the other night while I was actively using it :( Granted I was up later than normal (~2:30 AM) but that's pretty bad.

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    Comment #13260533

    One in a million happens quite often if you're processing something like ~100k requests a second.

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    Comment #12817327

    Usually in this case the developer is an employee of another company (this company can tell them what to do) and the first business is paying the second for this developers time.

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    Comment #11757240

    He was using the english word demand. In that these college graduates will demand (require, insist upon, refuse to work unless given) more money to accept given position. Applying …

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    Comment #11374815

    I actually never looked inside! I deleted all of those files without looking in them. Only after my performance improved did I check my scrollback and notice it was huge :(

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    Comment #11356338

    Last time I did the math you have to order pretty regularly for the subscription to break even. I use instacart about once a month and just pay the delivery fee.

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    Comment #11356322

    Regarding fish startup time I had a problem with fish taking forever before. Turned out my ~/.config/fish/fishd. file had erroneously ballooned to many megabytes. This caused a ver…

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    Comment #11167520

    This works: #!/usr/bin/node console.log("hello"); mark it executable and enjoy. Unless that's not really what you were getting at with your comment. If I misunderstood, sorry!

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    Comment #11029440

    Companies like that don't usually hire 600 people in 12 months, though. Buuut I guess they could. I guess it just kind of looks like the explosive hiring you see sometimes when a c…

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    Comment #10402392

    This argument is directly analogous to legal targeted wire-taps vs bulk surveilance.

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    Comment #9641534

    “[Testers] know exactly what our protocols are. They can create and devise and conceal items that … not even the best terrorists would be able to do,” Pistole told lawmakers at a H…

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    Comment #9384156

    The inverted method essentially involves waiting for 45-90 seconds and then pressing. It's not going to leak or anything when you flip it unless you go absolutely wild. It's no har…

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    Comment #6029126

    Don't forget about Memoize(). Often it can be a better choice than ToList().

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    Comment #5714707

    I think you missed the part where he was talking about the "Good Enough" developers.

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    Comment #5445009

    You have the right idea about pull but you're mixing up pull and pull request. Pull is a git verb that means to get code from another location. A pull request is asking someone els…

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    Comment #4917702

    It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer ac…

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    Comment #1910619

    The link is to my personal page describing the application and has QR code and market link. The site and app are completely add-free and non-paid. I'm looking for any feedback or o…

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    My first Android app, "Score It!" and I'm looking for feedback

    The link is to my personal page describing the application and has QR code and market link. The site and app are completely add-free and non-paid. I'm looking for any feedback or o…

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    Comment #1882885

    It starts to lag up really badly if you go over the top edge.