marceldegraaf

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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
I didn't downvote but would like to comment either way. I think this is exactly something the EU should be doing. The EU is largely about breaking the borders between all these smaller countries and making trade and travel between thes
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
Linking to the file from a popular HN thread will likely only worsen the bandwidth issues for the owner :-). Perhaps link to the Github version instead, which is here: https://github.com/gdsmith/jquery.easing
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
You should check out the various available voices, selectable with the "-v" switch. While you're at it, let it sing In The Hall Of The Mountain King for you: say -v Cellos Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
Interesting point! As far as I know we've never run into this issue. We are in The Netherlands, so perhaps that makes it easier. However, were this ever to become an issue with a particular candidate, I'm sure we are flexible enough to work
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
We are a small startup, currently with 11 people. You are right about the scaling issue, I suppose our approach would be more difficult in a large organisation. But why would we only be able to hire unemployed people or new grads? I joined
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
Yes, people who are currently employed will have to take a few days off for this. As we're in The Netherlands that is usually no problem. One of the reasons we pay people for these two days is to compensate them for the two days off they'll
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
Exactly! This is why we, at my job, only hire software engineers after a (paid) two-day test period in which they actually build some new feature on one of our products. Nothing too fancy but interesting enough for them to be a challenge an
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
I have quite a bit of devops experience myself, especially on Amazon Web Services and their CloudFormation service combined with Chef. I would be very interested in a blog post (or a series, go nuts!) and I'm considering doing a series of w
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by marceldegraaf 13y ago
Why would you get fired for covering an obvious and well-known CDN alternative in your blog post? Honestly interested :-)
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
On my non-retina MacBook the newsletter signup bar takes up about 1/3 of the screen real estate on that page. Seems a bit ironic for something that teaches us about a good UI...
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
"Munin" is already very well known as a distributed server monitoring system: http://munin-monitoring.org/
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
Nice! I really like the minimalistic GUI of the app. In addition to joren's comment below it would be great if Vim/Gmail navigation key bindings (or just configurable navigation key bindings) would be available. Navigation with j/k, marking
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
If you are okay with working on bare metal (i.e. no virtualization out of the box) than Hetzner (www.hetzner.de) is a very interesting partner. My experience with them is very good. Ex-colleagues are also happy with them.
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
We use AWS (and with great satisfaction) because it provides a full offering. We don't just need a bunch of servers, we also need databases, one or more queues, backup storage, caching and so forth. AWS provides all of these services, offer
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
I found out that the page listens to j/k just as in Vim. However, it seems the scroll directions are inverted from Vim; j goes up and k goes down.
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
I think the main reason for this is that strange things can happen when you're passing marshalled objects around. For instance, say that your application has just created an Email object which has a "title" attribute, and it has been marsha
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by marceldegraaf 14y ago
Or simply use a black and white camera when checking a room, to see if any black plastic objects are actually hiding something.
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
I second this. Recurring credit card payments are virtually impossible in the EU at the moment, and the existing options (e.g. PayPal) suck or are too expensive.
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
Thanks for your reply, I'll shoot you an email.
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
Looks good! One thing that seems weird: after signing up I'm asked to connect my social profiles to be able to invite people to my Plans. However, after connecting my Twitter profile I'm redirected to http://beta.plan.nr/beta which tells
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
Here's a better readable version of the cached article, thanks to Readability: http://www.readability.com/articles/o9rjarrr
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
As I live in the Netherlands, a lot of interesting stuff that happens online during the day in the US, happens in the night for us. While my GF is taking a shower and dressing, I'm usually still in bed checking Twitter, Reeder and Reddit fo
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by marceldegraaf 15y ago
I love how Pinboard deals with this issue: site remains online (albeit with limited abilities), all data is secured and backed up, users are encouraged to use the export tool if they feel the need and there are status updates on Twitter. Ke
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by marceldegraaf 16y ago
I couldn't resist asking: is the article hosted by an OCaml application? ;-)
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by marceldegraaf 16y ago
That's funny: usually when I'm about to make a phone call I almost automatically get out of my chair/sofa and start walking around. For some reason having a phone conversation works better for me when walking around. Perhaps it's due to the
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by marceldegraaf 16y ago
It would be very cool if it would be possible to export a hi-res PNG of a Silk render to be able to print it or use it on MyKEA. I would even pay for it.
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by marceldegraaf 16y ago
In the USA, today (4th Thursday of November) is Thanksgiving. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
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by marceldegraaf 16y ago
I would say: before forcing yourself into a profession or into activities that you think are good for you, try to find out what you actually like doing. Nothing is as devastating as having a job that you're not enthusiastic about and, v