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Christian Verkerk myfullnamewithnospaces with gmail

Dutch/American developer (mostly Django/Python + HTML/JS/CSS)

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c4urself··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
Mountain View, CA

Nimbula

Core Engineer - Distributed Systems Team

Cloud Computing is turning into one of the most significant technology trends of the last decade. Nimbula (www.nimbula.com) was founded by cloud computing pioneers (with team members from VMware, Amazon Web Services, and Cisco) and backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners to deliver the benefits of public clouds on private infrastructure. With Nimbula, customers can both provision their own private clouds, while also leveraging the capabilities of public clouds.

https://nimbula.com/company/careers/

c4urself··on What should we do about Wikipedia's mature content problem?
I'm not sure how reliable wikipedia's page on a critic of wikipedia is.
c4urself··on Light Table is in YCS12
This is Light Table: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
c4urself··on SASS vs. LESS
Good write-up

Not sure on my history here but i'm pretty sure i remember only the SASS variant being available (no braces among other things) while LESS stuck to a more css-like grammar. later SCSS came along which was CSS grammar for SASS.

It seems like I've run into more projects using LESS -- anyone know of any statistics?

c4urself··on State paid $22K each for Internet routers
Thinking the exact same thing -- there are plenty of libraries to choose from...
c4urself··on Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH
They are authentication tokens -- put your debit card in and it generates a login code after you input your PIN instead of using a password --.

Info: https://www.abnamro.nl/en/prive/slimbankieren/edentifier2/ve...

Picture: http://www.abnamro.nl/en/prive/slimbankieren/edentifier2/vis...

c4urself··on Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH
Just moved to the Bay Area from the Netherlands and I feel like I took a few steps back in time when I received _checks_!? from the bank I signed up to here.

People pay each other through bank transfer in the Netherlands and can expect to receive the money on the same day (if sent before noon). On top of that it doesn't cost money to do a transfer.

I've already gone to a bank more often here than I would in the Netherlands in a whole year. Setting up recurring transfers for example, or transferring to someone in another state is just difficult via online.

In other words: there is definitely room for improvement here, America has been held back in banking

c4urself··on Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
I admit I didn't think of this and it's a really easy fix.

In the case of Django: DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "My Company Name <somegirlname@mycompany.com>" is _all_ you need to do :)

c4urself··on How to Write Superior jQuery Plugins
I recently wrote a template for jquery plugins which uses many of the ideas in the article, it's based on the Twitter Bootstrap 2 jQuery templates:

https://github.com/c4urself/jQuery-Plugin-Template/blob/mast...

c4urself··on SimpLESS compiless .less into beautiful .css
ok didn't know about the platform support.

i'm curious what use cases have you run into where the less.js produced different css then lessc?

c4urself··on SimpLESS compiless .less into beautiful .css
It's not really different from Less.app and just like Less.app you don't need it when developing locally using the client-side approach. If you make compilation part of your deploy you basically don't need these apps at all.
c4urself··on You Can’t Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists
tl;dr; Argument of the defendant is based on:

“Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: ‘To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries,” the lawsuit details, adding:

“Early Circuit law in California held that obscene works did not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and thus cannot be protected by copyright.”

c4urself··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)
Changer, Leidschendam, NL/Pune, IN

Interns and Full-time developers welcome.

C# and Python developers (.NET MVC / Django).

http://www.changer.nl/#6-5-jobs

c4urself··on Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for
since when does a designer do html/css/js? or am i confusing a designer with a front-end dev?
c4urself··on [dead]
The #id selector performance tip is definitely true, but in single-page interface you never know which DOM elements may be floating around on a page, which would go against the one id per page principle.
c4urself··on TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
really? i've always thought it was very comparable (I checked out Sublime Text 2)
c4urself··on TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
List of changes: http://macromates.com/changes
c4urself··on TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
Is there a good story behind the logo change and choice, or was it just time for something new?
c4urself··on How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning?
I've been using Trello for just about everything, from organizing Groceries with my wife to recurring events to todo lists, it's simple and it's not paper.
c4urself··on Apple to Samsung: Don't make rectangular tablets
Most interesting one:

- cluttered appearance

as a suggestion for what Samsung should do different from Apple. How condescending is that?

c4urself··on I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make
Crap, i didn't know you could choose _not_ to divulge salary history! I'm horrible at salary negotiations, any links/advice for getting a better salary deal?
c4urself··on Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
if you have multiple projects on a system you may have different dependency requirements. module with version 1 for one project and the same module with version 2 for the other project.
c4urself··on Firefox – tons of tools for web developers
A bunch of these simply don't work in later releases of Firefox
c4urself··on Python Facts
cool initative! seems like snippet numbers are random: 1 works but 2, 3, 4 don't. it would be nice to have categories or tags and a place to let others contribute snippets. i like the fact that the snippets are small and communicate one thing, otherwise it's comparable to the ActiveState website. It would be nice to make it downloadable in a pdf.

EDIT: Never mind I see there is an "Add" button.

c4urself··on Tell HN: I want to teach you web development. In 8 weeks. For free (sort of)
sounds great!
c4urself··on The Hustler's Manifesto
I identify with Rule #2.

I often "lose" days making code look just a little better, after making it do what it needs to do.

c4urself··on Ask HN: Do you use print() debugging?
I used to do that (in Python) but find it's much more efficient to use the logging module. If you're going to put in print statements, it's likely to be a good spot to put in a debug/error/info/warn log, so when you're application is being used you can turn the logging to whichever level you need and see what's going on.
c4urself··on Bootstrapping Design
Like that bootstrap in the Bootstrapping Design logo, it's simple just like the concept and adds a cool touch
c4urself··on Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
This struck me as security which makes you feel safe aot security that makes you safe.

“The radiation portals that were deployed in the aftermath of 9/11 are essentially fine, except for three problems: They won’t find a nuclear bomb, they won’t find highly enriched uranium, and they won’t find a shielded dirty bomb,” says Stephen Flynn, a terrorism expert and president of the Center for National Policy. “Other than that, they’re great pieces of equipment.”

c4urself··on Occupy George
Very innovative idea. There is probably a law against writing/printing on money in the U.S., though.
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