wlievens

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1. 601.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   And balloons are rarely perefect spheres.
2. 602.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   I call bullshit. The minimum number of questions is this context implies the minimum number you need to ask to be guaranteed to find a solution. Any other interpretation is meaningless. But of course, the safe answer would be to explain it
3. 603.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   An amazing find ineed.
4. 604.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   In Belgium it's 50% starting at about €32k. Add social security tax and municipal tax to that and effective marginal tax rate becomes over 60%.
5. 605.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   I have a lot of open source GIS experience, but unfortunately I've never used Ruby. If you ever need anything done involving GIS and Java, contact me.
6. 606.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   SEEKING WORK Remote and local, Antwerp area BELGIUM Well-versed in front-end development as well as back-end stuff, most experienced with Java but comfortable with other platforms. Domain experience includes compilers, open-source GIS and i
7. 607.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   Might as well be Perl code.
8. 608.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   Same here. Your last comma is probably superfluous, I think.
9. 609.▲
   by wlievens 16y ago

   Wow, that's just sad.
10. 610.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Oh you mean interpolating the Bayer filter, okay. I work in this industry (digital imaging, not space) but since all color-filtered images I get to see are raw, I only see checkerboard grayscale :-)
11. 611.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Do you have a cite on this? Would love to read more.
12. 612.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    What do you mean by 'raw pixel interpolation'?
13. 613.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Obama didn't argue for this intervention in the first place. At least not in public discourse. Europeans argued for it, the US decided to support it later. Also do note that I'm a firm supporter of humanist interventionism, you just need to
14. 614.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Arguably, the difference is that Iraq (in 2003!) didn't have a democratic opposition movement with a fighting chance. There is a world of difference between 'nudging' the direction of a civil war, and nation-building from scratch. Especiall
15. 615.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    I just want to chime in and say that public opinion on this is completely different in Europe compared to the US. We don't view this as a US-led incursion on par with Afghanistan or Iraq. It's a humanitarian action undertaken by France, the
16. 616.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Maybe the 0 in 08 could be the clue. But that's not really much better.
17. 617.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Classifying blatant racism under free speech can have actual consequences too. Consider the genocide in Rwanda in which racist radio programmes encouraged massive killings. You could say that everyone's responsible for their own actions, no
18. 618.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Sorry, I'm not hip enough so you just downvote me?
19. 619.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Very nicely done. I want it for subversion now!
20. 620.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Shor's algorithm is the classic (pun intended) example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm
21. 621.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    I like that stuff too. It's (in terms of taste and function) somewhere between pasta and rice, so that means a lot of dishes work great with it.
22. 622.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    I agree with all that, to be honest. Google does a good enough job.
23. 623.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Silly indeed. I also wonder how much more energy is wasted sending these extra bytes around, millions of times per hour.
24. 624.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Same here. I guessed because you said you studied "economics and languages" (Economie-Talen) and because you had a bunch of teachers discouraging higher scientific studies because of less math background. You do need to be really good in ma
25. 625.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Oh, right. Now I understand. Yeah, you see those a lot.
26. 626.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    I think he's just talking about a parser that can convert jarin's latest comment on YC news to something like site:news.ycombinator.com "jarin" sort-by:date (pseudo-syntax mine of course)
27. 627.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    It looks a lot like the GladOS balls from the game Portal , too. http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2008/005/e/3/Blue_GLaDOS_B... These have eyes.
28. 628.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    What exactly do you mean? Do you have an example?
29. 629.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    A curious question: where are you from and which college did you attend? I have a vague hunch.
30. 630.▲
    by wlievens 16y ago

    Belgian beer is awesome. That's why I decided to be born here.