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bulte-rs

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Programmer, pragmatist. Married to Wendy. Father of 3. Loves learning new stuff. Does security and software engineering stuff at NerdAsAService.nl, CISO at bettyblocks.com, technical advisor at TeleNomos.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bulters; my proof: https://keybase.io/bulters/sigs/7EecFEdcgdwHK2VlQeoldjrILKu_U31YQdu7ht-FwP8 ]

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bulte-rs··on Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications
Just heard you got in touch with one of our sales guys. He'll walk you through getting started.

@all: thanks for the feedback! Your comments are heard and are high up on the list of "stuff to get right REAL fast".

For anyone with questions: shoot me an email, I'll be happy to answer questions! Mail is in the bio.

bulte-rs··on Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications
Disclaimer: I work for a sister-company.

"We" have something like this with event based "model actions" which also support calling out to webservices (both rest and soap).

Shameless "competitor plug"; will remove if considered inappropriate: http://www.bettyblocks.com/en

edit: App/marketing is being translated as we speak; you guys will be able to figure things out right? ;-)

bulte-rs··on Confessions of a Grown-Up Kick-Scooter Rider
Paywall workaround via google search in... 1...2... ;-)
bulte-rs··on Ask HN: Free domain names?
Check out freenom.com; is seems .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf and .gq are free/gratis?
bulte-rs··on Career options out of programming?
Agreed... Your deliverables are "boring" (although not useless). Point being that you're able to LEARN a shitload at these companies from various perspectives.

(offt: I don't really have any connection with the SV since I'm not US based and not working for a product company. So I have no clue about current state of Bizdev/M&(t)A there... Care to elaborate?)

bulte-rs··on Career options out of programming?
Consultancy... Go work for a big consultancy firm. Good pay, good guidance, big clients and not too much programming.
bulte-rs··on [dead]
Considering GHC is still implemented in C I would consider this not true. Impractical: probably. Impossibru: No.
bulte-rs··on Thoughts on Time-series Databases
+ ins position of course; gps position is not reliable enough (less gbas) to land a big plane with.
bulte-rs··on Enterprise Cloudworks: One Platform, No Code, Any Application
Shameless plug/Me too: http://www.bettyblocks.com

I work for the company that builds this; and no... I'm NOWHERE getting nervous about "no code".

On the contrary :D

bulte-rs··on Keybase.io
shoot me an email.

also: invites available for keybase; mail in bio.

bulte-rs··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Who are you to call millions of pokemon fans silly?
bulte-rs··on Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'
There is a procedure in which the lock is overridden in case of no-response from the cockpit; it's time based so it might take somewhere between 45 seconds to 5 minutes to get the door open.

If the inhabitant of the cockpit chooses to respond with a locking command (in the case of the A320, moving the door switch forward); the door will remain closed no matter how hard you try.

bulte-rs··on Show HN: Fast and simple way to get EV SSL certificates
Thanks for the update; much appreciated. Will keep this in mind for the next time I need an EV.
bulte-rs··on Show HN: Fast and simple way to get EV SSL certificates
So, when the process is complete... how much will you bill me?
bulte-rs··on Ask HN: Digital nomad taxes – which country to pay in?
Partially true, you will have to pay your income tax in Spain, except (cue european tax treaties) when your socio-economic life lies in a different country (e.g. you have a gym membership, cellphone and house in the Netherlands); and then again it depends on the treaty between the two countries.

Disclaimer: I am not a tax lawyer, my wife is though.

edit: added example

bulte-rs··on Dutch ISP's no longer have to save Web, Mail and Voice data (Dutch)
Queue Dutch VPN service explosion...

Living in the Netherlands I'm really excited about this and -honestly - a bit proud that at least our judicial branch has the guts to make a decision like this; even though they're forced/supported by EU-legislation.

bulte-rs··on Ask HN: What was homework like for you?
Cannot agree any more; this is precisely the stance I took myself in 'high school' (dutch) with - thank god - support from my parents. (mental note: support my kids when they're doing this themselves)

IMO there's no point in forcing yourself into doing more work for subjects you really don't care about.

Luckily, here in Holland highschool grades don't really matter that much unless you're trying to get into med-school.

bulte-rs··on Ask HN: Sentiment Analysis – how to handle biased word list lengths?
Only using match-counts is imo a bit simplistic (don't get me wrong, simplistic can be good). Do you have any information like "how many times does this negatively annotated word occur in a document"; then you can use a simple calculation (like cosine-similarity) to calculate a measure of matching with said case.

Also, consider using bigrams (i.e. word-pairs) to do sentiment matching which will make matching more precise.

bulte-rs··on Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?
I partly agree with this. Although I'm convinced there are actually people who CAN do a lot of "this stuff" quite good; I'm convinced that most of us mere mortals would be moderate in some of these at best while struggling with the rest.
bulte-rs··on Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?
agree... edited. mea culpa
bulte-rs··on Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?
As far as I know, "Full Stack" is a misused term for developers who are able to do everything from devops to front-end development/ui/ux design.
bulte-rs··on Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names
Thanks. Was looking for a nice name. Got myself a nice 5 letter - pronouncable - .com.
bulte-rs··on One-electron universe
This makes me wonder: how would a change in direction in/on of the other axes (or manifolds?) on the "remaining" proposed 7 dimensions manifest themselves? Does stuff actually move on those axes or over/through other manifolds?
bulte-rs··on Air Traffic Control Simulator
One of my flight instructors actually put me through a few hours of tracon ;)
bulte-rs··on Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
This. I know the big-four of accounting/consultancy firms offer these services for e.g. expatriates but they don't take on single "puppets" for logistical reasons.

Small firms mostly lack the wide scale of knowledge required to do said things.

For prices: I know a certain B4-firm asks around EUR 450 (USD 550?) for a single tax return. Extrapolate from there ;-)

bulte-rs··on Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code
But imagine how much fun it would be to drive that tiny nail into the wall with that huge sledgehammer.

I don't disagree with you - on the contrary - but just wanted to point out that fun might be a great motivator for chosing a language.

bulte-rs··on Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code
Yet, even carpenters can have favorite tools. I really enjoy hitting stuff with a large sledgehammer; that doesn't mean I use it to do everything... I just really like hitting stuff with a big hammer, makes it extra special when I can actually use it.

Same applies - imo - to programming languages. I use Ruby for most of my work since "it just gets the job done"; but I really love the moments I can work on one of my clojure projects.

Clojure is my favorite hammer at this moment, that might change to F#, Haskell, Go, <new language> anytime.

bulte-rs··on The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997)
I remember citing this article in my thesis and thinking "damn has it been 10 years already". I was 23 back then. :|

Thinking of the PageRank algorithm as a eigenvalue problem was one of the few 'things' that were a real eye opener for me and allowed me to actually connect maths and computer science for these practical purposes.

bulte-rs··on Show HN: Mobile Aviation Weather
Thanks! I actually prefer aviation wx over the 'plebs'-version (;-)). Bookmarked!

Perhaps include a link to a good reference on reading metars/tafs?

bulte-rs··on The Dutch Pension Plan
He is actually entitled to it. You can always arrange for a buy-out (uitkopen); you're still liable for income tax if you contributed pre-tax on your pension.
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