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c4urself

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Christian Verkerk myfullnamewithnospaces with gmail

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

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c4urself··on Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
from this story and others i read on HN: there is something really wrong with the justice system in america.
c4urself··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (December 2010 Edition)
Changer is hiring front-end developers (Leidschendam, The Netherlands)

We're looking for people who love building web applications. Skills can be: - javascript/css/html - python/django - sharepoint/C#

http://www.changer.nl

Dutch and/or English

c4urself··on This (very basic) website is hosted on an alarm clock
what happens to the site when the alarm goes off?
c4urself··on Dutch Women work less, have a big gender pay gap, and they love it
I think that's a truer balance; not women doing exactly what men do (work 40 hours a week) but men working less and watching the kids one day a week, and women also working. (In Holland, 'papadag' is an understanding, that is, a day that fathers stay at home and watch the kids)
c4urself··on I broke textCAPTCHA with Python
i noticed the form matters: so not including a question mark breaks it in "two plus fifteen equals?"
c4urself··on Hacker Monthly Breezed Past 2,000 Paid Subscribers
i was wondering about that, UK is $2 whereas NL is $10, seems unfair for how close they are compared to san francisco - new york
c4urself··on Ask HN: 19, developer, burnt out, advice please
I can't agree more with this! Right now you don't see a lot of options in front of you due to burnout etc. Despite this, force yourself into the unknown and discover new things, it sounds cliche but it'll change your perspective.
c4urself··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
I was thinking on this recently myself:

Throw out the TV (He watches some DVD's on a laptop) Buy Lego/Duplo/Kapla/Puzzles Read to him every night / let him (learn to) read

On a side note: Anybody have thoughts on leveraging KhanAcademy.org ?

c4urself··on Facebook knows when you'll break up
was just about to say that! obviously cnn didn't bother thinking about this
c4urself··on Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.
awesome! flash ball speed is slower by the way... and keeps losing :)
c4urself··on Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care?
Could it be that the persons thought it was some kind of automatically-generated message? Maybe a you're wearing a red shirt that says ... would get the point across?
c4urself··on Show HN: Couldn't sleep; added 960gs support to jMockups
looks nice! minor point (maybe i'm too used to looking for small differences): when you do the browser test the font doesn't match in my browser (FF 3.6 on Mac), suggesting the answer to the question "Do these match?" may be 'No'. Maybe a "Do the words match?" may be clearer.
c4urself··on Ask HN: How does having a baby change your life?
completely agree; they only grow up once.
c4urself··on Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos."

haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?

c4urself··on Dear Gap, I have your new logo.
... or at least show the logo when you do display: none; the post-it ...
c4urself··on [dead]
what is KatrinaList?
c4urself··on 1938 in 2010
completely agree that if such a strategy will work it will only work when spending increases the nation's competitive edge: the 1938 counterpart to this was the war where a lot of funding went, it increased technological innovation which in turn positively affected the competitive edge of the US throughout the 20th century.
c4urself··on Arcade Fire meets HTML5
this could almost be one of those turning points in html5 acceptance where you would say: and then i saw the arcade fire video and everyone has been using canvas ever since...

is there any more detail on how they made it besides chromeexperiments.com?

c4urself··on Stolen Laptop Contains Man's Dreams
this kind of story is always a wake up call to hurry up and save/backup your data... the least you can do is send yourself a copy of the *.docx at for example gmail.
c4urself··on What's better about Ruby than Python? - comp.lang.python
make sure to use the zoom button on that... (not only the page itself but the differences too)
c4urself··on No visa required
so true and that's the USC/Permanent resident line, how about that visitors line...
c4urself··on No visa required
it's not only the countries you travel visa-free to, it's also how they treat you once you're there... i once traveled through italy with an american friend and was surprised at the hassle they made of the border crossing of a nighttrain simply due to his passport... i was able to sleep on and he had to answer questions this was back in 2000. at the same time consider countries like syria where an american passport might not be as nice as an EU one.
c4urself··on America's misguided culture of overwork
standard offers i've come across in contracts is 2 free days per working month here, however 20 days is minimum by law not counting holidays. i've lived both in the US and EU, and while i feel there is more freedom in the US, the problem is as soon as you start working you can't enjoy them cause you're working 40+ hours per week and barely have any vacation.
c4urself··on Ruby on Ramen?
an attempt to tap into the ramen-eating startup market?
c4urself··on Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
great video, almost makes one stressed looking to see if that hand will keep up with the talk though...
c4urself··on How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers
lol, funny to see people who are presumably knowledgeable about internet completely forgetting about security
c4urself··on [dead]
[Python, Ruby. Haskell. Erlang] "they’re keeping the parts of Java that run well and mixing it with impenetrable syntax." ... honestly???
c4urself··on America is about to undertake "its biggest transformation in decades"
I agree that this is a possibility. In the end how quickly America pulls through depends on how well it makes the 'transformation' to more sound consumer spending.
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