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feulix··on Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”
The word "sinaasappel" is much more common, which sounds a lot more like the Chinese apple you're referring to than "appelsien". The latter is used in a brand name for fruit juice (used to be exclusively orange juice). Besides that it's practically not used in modern Dutch.
feulix··on How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
Have you tried amazon.co.uk and amazon.de?
feulix··on Show HN: MFile.io
Looks cool! But what problem does it solve that sites like Imgur don't?
feulix··on Show HN: Dutch app helps you find a Döner place for your after party cravings
Correction: no Android version. Not downloading, will perhaps share.
feulix··on Show HN: Dutch app helps you find a Döner place for your after party cravings
Dutchie here. Am downloading, will share with friends.
feulix··on Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety?
I've developed some kind of blind spot for ads, so I'll accept them as long as they don't track me. For blocking spying ads and invisible trackers, I'm using Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)
feulix··on VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264
> In that case encoding speed doesn't matter much

When occasionally encoding: yes. When your daily business is encoding larger batches: not necessarily.

edit: Just to clarify: we've got an encoding farm which will have to be siginficantly expanded if a substantial amount of content will have to be transcoded in H.265.

feulix··on The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia
For the Dutchies, a report which aired on Dutch TV a few weeks ago: http://journalistiek.npo.nl/dossiers/ouderenzorg/290_84312-r...
feulix··on Interviewing a front-end developer
Lots of these comments are the reason I read HN. I love an educated discussion, especially as a response to an article with breathes pretentions like this one.
feulix··on Started a stupid company. Failed.
Sad story makes me sad. Keep on trying and accept the help of all the people in this thread. Christmas season has officially started.
feulix··on Ask HN: Give me some list of movies about Entrepreneurship and Technology...
Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
feulix··on Show HN: www.sopajs.org - simple SOPA banner for your website
Brilliant.

Edit -- from their FAQ: "But the domain was registered using GoDaddy! --> Ironic, eh? For more information on the irony see here ( http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/29/not-even-a-shift-to-full-s... ).

Source: http://www.sopajs.org/faq