jvanloov

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by jvanloov 7y ago
Flemish: "dinges"/"dingske"
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by jvanloov 7y ago
The way I understand "hinterland" is "the geographical area where goods from the harbour can easily be transported to". This can be over water (river or canals), but also by train or truck.
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by jvanloov 8y ago
http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live-shipping-map-english-... :-)
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by jvanloov 8y ago
"The worldken of this behaving, in all its manifold ways, is called minglingken ." Funny, the Dutch word for chemistry is "scheikunde", which would be more like "breakupken" ("scheiden" = to separate
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by jvanloov 8y ago
Ghent (Belgium) has also done this for several years already. Among others, my kids' school uses this for local activities such as going to one of the city parks (a weekly activity in certain years/classes); only the teacher and n
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by jvanloov 9y ago
> Leopold II's atrocities get very little attention in Belgium compared to Nazism. That is true. I'm Belgian; I can't remember having heard about this e.g. in history classes; it's something I came across later on.
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by jvanloov 9y ago
The park was called after Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Belgium. This was in 1877, a decade before the Congo atrocities. (Source: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldpar
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by jvanloov 9y ago
Doing. I pick a project that interests me at some point; currently "I'd like to have an internet music player that sits on my cupboard and doesn't require my tablet". Then: * decide on platform (CC3200, because it ha
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by jvanloov 10y ago
My kids (4 and 6) go to bed between 7 and 8PM (target = 7:30). They have to get up at 6:30 AM so we can get them ready for school without too much of a rush, so they go to bed early. They are both good sleepers; that helps of course. Subtra
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by jvanloov 10y ago
> [...] and every time there is a minor breakthrough I feel like throwing a party Yes! It's become a deliberate strategy of mine to set the subgoal complexity in my personal projects such that I get a small "yes! it works!&quot
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by jvanloov 10y ago
I move daily between different environments (OS X, Windows, Linux in VMs and on Raspberry Pi) and languages (C, Python, shell scripts). Switching between different editors on all platforms was a chore. Emacs provides me with the same basic
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by jvanloov 10y ago
As corrosion sets in, the problem becomes bigger and bigger. http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/21/troubled-waters-the-hidde...
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by jvanloov 10y ago
This fits within the scientific field of evolutionary linguistics ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_linguistics ).
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by jvanloov 10y ago
English has these words that your language does not, because it borrowed heavily from several other languages in the past. Having only one language would kill off that source for diversity. Dutch also has one word for happiness and luck (&q
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by jvanloov 10y ago
The Convair was the example of piston tech taken too far.
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by jvanloov 11y ago
The same issue comes up with classic cars. Is a car which has seen many/most of its parts replaced (including chassis members, body panels,...), still the same car?
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by jvanloov 11y ago
Flemish here: I write 8 by starting in the mid-point, then to top left, around via top right to bottom left, around to bottom right and then back to the middle. So it's horizontally mirrored compared to the way you do it :-)
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by jvanloov 11y ago
I'm in Belgium, with two kids. When they were both in daycare (4 days a week), we paid between 500-650 euros per month, depending on the number of workdays in the month. We were paying the highest price per day, because we both worked.
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by jvanloov 12y ago
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente
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by jvanloov 12y ago
A muffler restricts the exhaust and will lead to decreased power from the engine, even for properly tuned engines. Removing the muffler will remove the restriction in the exhaust and undo the power decrease, and also increase the noise.
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by jvanloov 12y ago
Belgian perspective: every bakery has their own cutting machine, and when you buy a bread, it is cut just before it is wrapped. If you tell the baker beforehand that you prefer it uncut, you'll get it uncut. 15 years ago, it used to be
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by jvanloov 12y ago
We have a thermostat in our house that has a weekly programme: it turns the heat on in the morning, then off at 7:30 when everyone is at work/school, back on at 16:30 so that the house is heated when we get back home from work/sch
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by jvanloov 12y ago
The intention is noble. However, chances are that the son looks up to his father, thinks his father's life is normal and how it should be, and will (unconsciously) copy it. If that happens, will he really have the better life that his
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by jvanloov 12y ago
We have 2 toddlers; double-income household. We live at the edge of a small city center in Belgium. Originally, we both worked full time, lived in a small house, and had income to spare to save some and do some small-scale travelling within
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by jvanloov 13y ago
I haven't seen the second meaning used in English. But in Dutch they could/would correspond to "klieven" (split in two) and "kleven" (glue together).
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by jvanloov 13y ago
With regards to Belgium: it's 4 months parental leave now (it changed last year, apparently to comply to a European directive). However, only the first three months you get paid (by social security, not your employer). It is the same amount
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by jvanloov 15y ago
http://www.rsiguard.com/ They have both Windows and OS X versions.