glenndebacker

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by glenndebacker 10y ago
The company I working for is more then 6 years old but we are still calling ourself a startup. Sometimes I think it's because of marketing reasons or as an alibi for certain decisions because "that is how they do it in startups&qu
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
I really would like to know what need you could have that is solved by making a laptop 3mm thinner. I personally think their whole obsession by making these laptops thin is contra productive if you think off al the things (non solderable RA
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"...and longevity" I never had a laptop that I used as long as my MBP (2011) and it's still going strong. That being said the problem with the new Macbook Pro's is that in their quest of making things thinner a lot of po
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"Please don't perpetuate this myth of Apple being first with such and so. As a rule they are not first with anything, instead they see what others are doing and produce their own version of the idea. A refined version often, but t
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
It grants corporations the rights to bypass national courts and directly file claims in some kind of international tribunal. But the way it's setup is really fishy to say the least. Unfortunately in this case it also has some local pol
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"Safari is the new IE6, stop supporting it and let it die." I can only assume you never went through the pain that IE6 delivered... It has been some years now but I still get nightmares about it. It literally made me question at o
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
It's not only huge files that it's chocking on. Last year I was working on a game demo under time constraints and to cut a corner I base64 encoded a bitmap font. Every time I opened that 32KB file it began to slow down because tha
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Here in Belgium they did make that mistake. They issued green power certificates so people installing solar panels could receive some money. After a while it became pricey and they needed to halt the program. Still they were obligated to pa
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
It's not perfect but it's certainly an improvement if I think back at the time that IE6 was the dominant browser. I worked at an e-commerce company at that time and it was corporate policy to have webpages render perfectly in all
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
So does this come without tracking and more privacy because for that price you can't play the "they need to recoup the costs through user data" card. Apple it seems can do it for devices in those price range.
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Here (Belgium) it has been legal for 14 years now. Anybody who suffers (even psychological) has the right to decide between life or death. There are some rules (number of doctors, free will, unbearable suffering, ...) you need to follow. Th
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
I don't use ES6 because of the cool kids, but because it makes some Javascript things more tolerable. One constructive thing that I would like to add is that the "You don't know JS" book series has really taught me a lot
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Seems you have a case of a selective memory because the case in question had some more arguments than round corners. It's intellectual dishonest to reduce it to only that. Samsung was being caught having a 155 manual ( http:/&#x2F
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
I personally think in this space that they experiencing more competition from boards with the ESP8266. You could use the rpi with the gpio pins but for some projects it doesn't make economically sense. For 4 euro's and less you ca
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space." I never understood that people keep saying that. It's not because you make a lot of money that you will get under investigation for being a monopoly. Micro
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
You could also buy an NodeMCU ( http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html ) if you don't like soldering. Personally without a formal electronics background or great soldering skills, I had not a lot of problems with setting up th
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
At work we are forced to spend some of our free time writing "commercial interesting" articles mostly of topics that doesn't say a lot to me. It's something that I (and a lot of my coworkers) dread a lot. On the other ha
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"especially since the EU has had it out for US tech companies for awhile now" Sorry but this is typical American FUD, European companies are scrutinised on the same terms and when breaking the law or dodging stuff are getting (hig
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Don't know of this helps, but most of them also comes in ePub format which you could read on an e-paper device.
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
That is pure FUD and you know that. Here we don't have ApplePay (yet) but alternative payment solutions for bankcards have also certain restrictions and sometimes this also means regarding hardware. That being said I have still the cho
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
In Belgium that is also mostly the case. But at my current company we have a 40 hour weeks (and a lot of unpaid overtime) because for some bizarre reason management is convinced "that is how successful Silicon valley does it". I p
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"It's never mentioned, for example, that his organization in Turkey runs "houses of light" (isik evleri) which serve..." And here is the problem that I personally have, it could be that the whole organisation is lik
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Wasn't he the one that said that when he goes to downing street they listen, but when he goes to Brussels they only take notice ?
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
skeumorphism has notting to do with clear use of iconography. Even for a young kid a meaningless icon is still meaningless... I don't follow all the points in the article but I can't count the times that I overlooked photo's
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"Brexit was partly about the EU's sclerotic lack of democracy" Oh please, first lookup what a (representative) democracy is and how the European commission and parlement works before shouting nonsens. I'm not particularl
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
Seeing how the pound has fallen, I think it's cheaper for foreign investors to buy Britisch companies. That is a bit ironic if you keep the surge of nationalism in mind.
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
In Belgium the only reason full-face burkas and niqabs are outlawed is because you need to be recognisable. There isn't a burka prohibition but rather one against clothes/masks/... in general that can make it difficult to ide
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"So what you are saying, is that the problems in Greece are down to the UK? " The problems in Greece where mostly introduced by abuse of the Greeks themselves. That is the small detail that mostly is left out. "The UK has not
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"The Euro just seems like a complete failure. Giant economies are limping along with 20% unemployment, unable to recover 8 years after the recession. In contrast the US has managed an OK recovery, now closing in on full employment.&quo
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by glenndebacker 10y ago
"On the indie side things are much better so if you are only a very casual gamer or really like some old school stuff you'll have things to play, if you want to play AAA titles Linux isn't where you find it." Indie games

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