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Brussels is Brussels, there's so much more around, Belgium has many lovely places to visit and from Brussels they're nearly all reachable by public transport.

Living areas in and around Brussels are hit and miss sometimes, it can be quite hard to find decent priced places. A lot of expats I know choose to move out of Brussels to nearby towns, Leuven or Mechelen are examples, about a 20 to 30 minute train ride to/from Brussels (North station). The public transport works but always calculate time for delays, they are more common than bread unfortunately. Finding a decent area to live in Brussels requires a lot of research, some areas, like Elsene, are great to live in but some parts of that area are also to be avoided.

As for tech scenes, there's plenty, the Meetup app might be helpful for that.

There's so much I could tell you, as I myself live in Belgium and have been working in the IT scene for over 17 years, most of that in Brussels, so if you have questions or want to have a talk once you're here you can reach out to me via my profile.

Welcome to Belgium!

Maybe try with a donate button somewhere, it might give you insight if people are (even) willing to pay for it? You could still sell it afterwards but if you received donations it at least shows potential buyers it raises interest.

This reminds me of reMarkable (https://remarkable.com/).

Maybe spend some of your talent and time helping out Open Source initiatives? This way you stay active and it might help get the creative juices flowing.

Hi, this has been asked before a while ago so I thought I'd link you to what was answered back then to get you started:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298195

I give a vote for 1Password on Mac but on Linux I quite like Pass.

If you want to take advantage of all the bells and whistles of VMware vSphere that makes it worth using (e.g. failover/vMotion) you will need shared storage (hardware or software), decent networking and shell out for at least the cheapest licenses (as well as the support they force you to buy)which give you some of the tools/benefits but not all.

The first question I have is, do you really need it, is there a need for all these bells and whistles?

[0]Wiktionary mentions "untore" as "plague spreader". But this might be a little on-the-nose maybe?

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/untore

Hosting: https://www.hetzner.de/ (Germany) Hosting/Registrar/Mail: https://www.gandi.net/ (France) Mail: https://tutanota.com/ (Germany) or https://protonmail.com/ (Swiss)

I'd go for a combination of these. Get your domain name with a trusted registrar and divide your servers/hosting. Especially the mail. The mail providers I posted offer encrypted mail.

There's also Babun[1] which is a pre-configured Cygwin with a lot of addons as they say themselves. It also uses oh-my-zhs.

When I have to use a Windows OS for some reason I install this, it at least makes me feel a little bit at home.

[1]http://babun.github.io/

Seems it's not the first time this happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838670

No multiple users for me though. Will give it another try later on. I was already fed up with how Upwork works and this article just pushed me over the edge.

Hmmm, interesting:

"Thank you for using Upwork.

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The problem is, how are they going to make the distinction between really obese people and people that are tall and pack some weight due to being this tall. Let's say they ask your weight alone, that wouldn't be enough in a scenario like this, so weight and height. Who's going to provide the statistics that tells them what is obese when getting these numbers? What if people refuse to give it to them? Are they going to refuse them the flight? Too many questions, too much red tape I'm thinking.

After supporting everything Windows under the sun since 3.11 I've grown to loathe it. I've been working with Mac OS and mostly Linux for the past few years and when I can avoid it I will not touch Windows anymore. Mostly for all the reasons already mentioned but also because after getting used to the "freedom" in Linux I just feel trapped whenever I have to do something on Windows. The only positive thing I can see is the Windows Core edition coupled with (the still improving) Powershell, but it's still not the same.

Hi, thanks, I will send out an email shortly!

Interesting, internationally available by any chance? As in, do you ship to Europe?

Thanks, was thinking it might have been a problem with the uBlock plugin but after Googling them myself I wasn't doubting that much anymore ;)

Is anyone else getting this (using uBlock with FF):

  uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:
  http://eng.localytics.com/when-things-go-wrong/
  Because of the following filter
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  Found in: Malvertising filter list by Disconnect • Basic tracking list by Disconnect

Sorry, that was 25Gb/month in data, not speed. I'm sure there's more choice out there, I'm not very familiar with the US market on satellite Internet.

Well, not sure if there's other options, I've seen some that offer 25Gb for something around $130/month but that was a while ago and I don't know if they're available in your region.

As for the 1.5mbps, if that is really dedicated to you and only you then it "can" be faster than your current DSL. The question remains if it warrants the price difference for the marginal difference it might bring.

Just a quick question, have you thought about satellite Internet services? Or is that not feasible/possible/...?

I work as an independent contractor, self-employed, for a US company. Currently we're using Transferwise.com for payments. You'll probably need to fill in a form W-8BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting (Individuals)).

The Macbook Pro using VMware Fusion (or Parallels, etc...) is a good choice, I have a similar setup working without a problem. 13" might be nice for traveling if you do that a lot, but when sitting at a desk the bigger screen is nice. (of course you could always connect an external screen but still).

Comfortable: 16Gb minimum ram, i7 processor (let's say 2 cores) and SSD drive of 256Gb

Better: 32Gb ram, i7 processor (4 cores) and SSD of 512Gb

Brand: Lenovo, Dell, HP ... Doesn't really matter as long as they have decent support/warranty.

Maybe not entirely the same, but I'm a happy user of BitTorrent Sync (https://bittorrent.com/), it keeps all my machines in Sync flawlessly (Windows, Macs, iDevices ...) There's even a client for Synology, so you could create some folder on your NAS and sync it with your devices .

I like http://www.edis.at/en/home/

20 is still young, I'd get a degree, it might help land you a job, it might not, but the main problem at the moment, and I'm speaking about my country, though I think it goes for multiple countries, is that employers now have too much choice. Let's say company X is looking for a new web developer, giving the current status of the market 50 people apply for the job, so much choice, lets cut that down, eliminate all the ones without a degree, still 40, lets delete all the ones with a degree and zero experience, 25 ... That's better, and then lets see what else they can use to cut down (how much experience, knowledge, place of residence,...).

So, you have experience, now I'd go for a degree and keep that experience up as best as possible. Besides, later on in your career, that degree might help you get other jobs, promotions, better pay ...

Just my 2c.

I think this is very promising, as a business owner I have a desktop in the office and a laptop for the road, it makes for a secure way to sync the "customer-folders" between both PC's and saves me from getting my laptop out because there's a file on there that isn't yet on the desktop ... While Dropbox is a good tool, I'd be more at ease the files are transfered securely/encrypted... And not resting on some cloud server, call it paranoid or whatever you want... Yes, I could use Truecrypt or whatever, but this has the "approachability" factor in its favor ... And no I'm not saying Truecrypt is difficult, I'm speaking more in general... I will probably test this out.

I see there's a 30 day Trial at Magento, will look around for similar and present this to the guy ... Thanks guys.

Nice... I've installed it and also used your alternative icon.