glenndebacker

You must have seen my grandparents - the ones that have witnessed the real horror of nazisme/ww2 - radical to the bone. Doing all dangerous violent stuff with their walker and wheelchair. A whole life of attacking "good people" from the extreme right or whatever orange buffoons choose to describe them these days.

The notion that anybody that is anti-facisme - which for me should be natural for anybody with some minimum of values - is a radical of extreme-whatever is plain ridiculous.

America’s and your holier than the pope attitude is hypocritical in this regards. I really must refrain my self to describe it as typical.

You won’t see the same reaction when the story is about anti western Islamic propaganda. And I’m not talking about killing videos but speech that glorifies attacks for example in the same way that in the past day you can still read on the daily stormer how they glorify that domestic terrorism attack...

For the record I’m against any content of that nature but wake me up when it’s not only nazis that needs defending their free speech.

As somebody who has been battling a whole part of his life against PTSD I find it very troubling that people in 2017 still believe that bs that you can only harm people when you use fysical violence.

Since the end of WW2 we (Belgium) have laws against glorifying nazisme or racisme. After 70 years we are still a democratic country.

And we are certainly not the only democratic country that have similar laws...

The reality is that this not only stops at the Turkish borders. Pro Erdogan media easily finds it message abroad through TV satellite channels for examples.

There was a study or survey here in Belgium that those channels are the only way a lot of the Turkish community receives their news and information. What we have seen after the coup was an extremely uprising in violence and threats (last month even a murder) between pro erdogan supporters and non supporters. And from all EU countries I think they voted the most pro-Erdogan.

And while its too easy to make a correlation between the two, I personally do think this has some influence at least. Media is a very powerful tool.

"This thing absolutely smokes Ryzen in gaming at stock clocks let alone OC'd - single-thread performance is still a dominant factor in good gaming performance and this chip delivers in spades."

That if you are limiting yourself to 1080p... At the resolution that I game (3440 x 1440) those performance differences disappear very fast. And even at 1080p 150 vs 180 frames don't matter that much for the majority of people.

The cost of this chip alone is the same as some Ryzen builds. There is a point where it financial doesn't make sense (price/performance) even if it's the fastest chip around.

It's not the first time that I see this being described as "anti-US".

And that while the reality is that there is a list of European companies/kartels receiving high anti trust fines as well for their behaviour.

The "problem" is that this never receives any interest in the states which only contributes to this blurred image that only US companies are getting fined. That is frankly untrue.

The problem is not being big but the effect you have on the market. And that effect is naturally a lot bigger if you are a defacto monopoly ergo why there are a different set of rules. It can't be all party if you are at that position.

If you would not have that kind of control (and fines when they break those rules) it would be virtually impossible to beat these kind of entities or they can use their weight to strong-arm them-self in a lot of markets. See what happened in the past with Microsoft.

I don't remember the correct numbers but here in Belgium at the current rate we will have double the amount of heatwaves in comparison with the previous century.

Regardless of what is the cause, it's nut that we are only 17 years in a new century and we already had that many heatwaves.

Not talking about how dry it has been the last couple of months in a rainy country like ours. It's the first time in my lifetime that I'm confronted with water shortages.

The majority of terrorists are second and third generation immigrants. Border control or travel bans won't stop them as they already here and would not have prevented all terroristic attacks.

Trump's travel ban or lidar-based border control wouldn't even have prevented 9/11 as most came from a country that is of economic importance.

Maybe Luckey can sell its technology to Saudia Arabia and Trump can then boast of the big money deals he made. In the mean time SA can fund European mosque's that calls not to integrate, to resist western society/ideals or democracy. That is big part of the problem.

I don't believe for one bit that this has to do with "security" or "keeping troops save". There are easier things you can do that would improve that.

"time acquires a bargaining chip with Europe"

Yeah good luck with that. Maybe I'm living in a parallel Europe but that is not what I'm reading in the European newspapers this morning. Trump is loathed here and the notion of always cooperating with (our "friend") the US is sinking extremely fast, politically and also in the mind of the general people. I can't comment for all EU countries, but the view of the US is rather negatively here.

And honestly why would we? While a lot of EU leaders are publicly outraged, the fact that the US is more and more turning back into the dark ages gives a lot of possibilities for other countries. That void needs and will be filled in by others.

For me there is a silver lining here.

"What is childish is implying the President of the United States committed treason with nothing to back it up."

A bit like throwing wild unfounded accusations of blaming your predecessor of "tapping" your wires and when that doesn't fly try to redefine the meaning of words.

Or from the moment that the media writes something you don't like call them "fake" or threaten them with stronger libel laws.

Or when you are getting under fire blame somebody else or cry "this is unfair, look what the other one did".

The only time in my life that I personally witnessed this kind of behavior was when I was in Kindergarten. And I'm not trying to make a joke, I'm very serious about this.

I don't think your POTUS is the physical representation of well-considered mature views or standing, not by a long shot. I was always raised under the impression that all old people had a lot of wisdom in them, but there is one 70 years old one that changed my views on that dramatically.

It's never about the topic at hand but there always seem to be some deflection to things or persons which (honestly) doesn't matter anymore. And what I find particularly strange is that it can be perfectly be the case that there is no "treason", it's the weird behavior shown (and sorry a bit dishonesty) that makes it so damn compelling to believe it.

Boys that have friendly relationships with people like Milo Yiannopoulos gives me the impressions that they have other reasons than finding "stupid memes" fun.

I think that the kind of people that surrounds you also tells something more of the person in question. And it's not only the figure of Yiannopoulos that is questionable in this particularly case....

Sorry but for years the mantra was for a gaming pic to invest in a i5 or even an i3 and spend the extra money in a good GPU. But for some bizarre reason suddenly everything that is not performing as an i7 7770k is a "bad cpu for gaming". It's ridiculous.

Hell in 30 million households there are 8 jaguar x86 core gaming machines active now with an IPC that is probably (I assume) atrocious.

I build my i7 4770 4 years ago and the sad part is that it will probably still take a lot of time for it to become a bottleneck in 90% of the games.

"but you are not really politically allowed to say what kind of people live in those neighborhoods"

It would help because those things are mostly done by the youth born there. Most migrants in a small (2sq miles although some like to extrapolate it to the whole country) community like Molenbeek (where most of those problems originate) are second generation or more. We are way past the point where it's a migration problem or where a migration stop would help.

I don't know how closing our borders or my absolute favourite "sending them back to their country of origin" (which will result in an infinite loop) will really help.

But then again for some we are not allowed to point to socio-economic problems, they pretend that it simply doesn't exist or it's the complete fault of the other side. What I often see in Belgium is the argument that Mohammed should find a job or that most are lazy.

But from the moment we the see the name on his resume or he shows up to do our garage door installation, it's a big "no-go" also. It's a vicious circle that works both ways.

Here in Belgium the Carrefour also introduced that system. It's fast if the system doesn't (randomly) pick you out for inspection. Nevertheless I like the system.

What I have also seen in the Hypercarrefour in Bruges that they scan your groceries when waiting in line to the checkout. Then they print a ticket on their mobile printer which you just need to give to the checkout and pay.

A local Delhaize (Food Lion in the US) experimented with a fixed POS where you needed to take out all your groceries, self-scan and pay. I have also used the same system at Tesco in Prague. Not the most pleasant system in comparison than the mobile version Carrefour and also Auchan uses where you just walk through the store with a mobile scanner.

Other local retailers (colruyt, aldi, lidl, Albert Hein) are more classic in that regards.

"t's often broken, and some items are subject to different buying conditions and can't be purchased via these self-service checkout lanes, like alcohol, or "luxury" items with high margins, like razor blades."

To be honest that's not a problem when using self-scan at Carrefour. Only if you buy alcohol or tabaco they may ask for your age or if you are picked out for an inspection. There is no limit in what you buy.

Although that is the situation here in Belgium.

"I hate to say it, but they do have not just the right, but the duty to protect their brand."

I'm no IP lawyer but you don't need to vigorously defend trademarks (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...).

It's virtual impossible to track all infrigements to begin with. If you read the rules regarding trademark abandonments you will see that it's certainly not that black and white as "you snooze, you loose".

I think the problem of the RAM is mostly because the things are soldered and non upgradable. And while 16GB may be definitely enough today, that "may" change in the future.

When I bought my Macbook Pro in 2011 it came with 4GB RAM and at that time it was suffice but through the years I did upgrade it. The RAM and SSD upgrade makes that I still use my machine till today. The fact that you can use a Macbook Pro for years makes it a bit sweeter to swallow the bitter price pill. With the "limited" 16GB RAM I'm not sure that will be also the case here.

Although it's at the point I simply can't afford it anymore. While it's nice to show off all the accessibility options for people with disabilities or health problems, the irony is that because of my disability (which has a big influence on my income) the apple ecosphere is becoming just to expensive.

Is something like the MIST FPGA (http://harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml) not an option?

While not the "real deal" it may be good enough and it can emulate a wide range of 8-bit machines. I was thinking about buying a unit to emulate my very first computer (a MSX) and the machine that I also wanted as a kid (Amiga) :-)

"Every European developer's final 'dream' is to work in the US tech industry - London is the second best thing to reach."

Maybe in the pre-Brexit or pre-Trump era but today... . I turned down a London offer because of the uncertainty Brexit brings and I'm certainly not alone.

It's not that Great Brittain or the US is that political stable with al that happende the last couple or months.

"the media was wrong about trump, and now they are doubling down by stoking fear in the hearts of viewers. "

Granted I don't live in the states so I can't comment on the media but have you seen his twitter account the last couple of day?

Doesn't seem to be the most stable guy running the show. Not talking about the scary reactions you will see from a lot of trump supporters with regards of those tweets.

I can only imagine what it must be for some people living in a society like this. And it's seems that this is only the beginning.

I find this strange for a group of people that may also have benefited from certain leaks to get in power. I would expect that they would put whistleblowers on a pedestal.

I must say that I don't envy my American friends with this future administration. They seem to change a lot of tunes and there seem to be a lot of contradictions.

The problem is that it's a counterproductive move. In Belgium / Flanders we had an extreme far right political party called the Flemish Block.

Af first the media gave them no air time, they weren't invited to political debates, they filtered them out like they didn't exist. The political parties created a cordon sanitaire, somekind of agreement to never create a government with that party involved.

The result? The biggest win ever for a far right party. To this day that particular moment in history is called black sunday. They were the underdog, the ideal party to give a protest vote and their idea's for a lot didn't seem that ridiculous as they got no confrontations.

Later they tried to outlaw the party but it just resurfaced as a new party called the Flemish importance (Vlaams Belang). Then something changed and they got more airtime, they were invited to political debates or debates too court.

The result ? People saw how ridiculous some of their arguments were or how they lost debates when confronted with just sane arguments.... Today they are a marginally sized party at best and nobody is scared from them anymore.

The only way you can defeat those ideas is not by taking away their voice, but to let them speak.

Here in Belgium the majority are the ones with a manual transmissions. The resell value of a car with an automatic shifter is also a lot less than the version with the manual shifter.

But the car market is also changing. We are (regarding cars) a diesel country but as the government want to promote (as they are less polluting) petrol and electric cars, the taxes are becoming a lot higher for those who want to drive with diesel.

If I'm not mistaken (not a car enthousiast) diesel cars with automatic shifters are rare. So when diesel is out, it may also change in this department.

"The rest is this bizarre merger of native APIs with C#. "

That was the thing that struck me the most when following a Xamarin course. I just don't see the added benefits of Xamarin when you are at that level of using (or having knowledge of) native code.

"Safari is rapidly getting a reputation as the new IE6."

And that is just a ridiculous comparison done by people who have never witnessed that period or are having a different agenda.

One of my first jobs (more then a decade ago) as a young developer was being a web developer for an American/Belgian e-commerce site. One of the things that was very important - because every customer counts - that the site displayed and worked perfectly in any browser (IE6, FF/Mozilla, Safari and Opera at the time)

That was a situation that wasn't a lot of fun because you had standard HTML that more or less worked in any browser with the exception of IE6. There where a lot of moments that I really hated my job because of the frustrations that IE6 often brought to the table. That is in no way comparable with Safari today.

And while I would like to have Apple more rapidly implementing new API's, with IE we could only dream of having an IE version that got new features every year. Years have we have witnessed the fallout of IE6, that will never be the case with Safari to this day.

IE6 was a vehicle to create an internet that only worked with Microsoft standards so that others couldn't be a valid alternative hence the IE6 markup vs the rest. You can't do that by dragging your feet when implementing API's, you only price yourself out of the market in that way.

No with big I meant politicians (the le pens, the wilders, the farages, ...) it's my fault I could have chosen my words better.

The only political parties that seem to be happy are the extreme right wing parties, that's was what I'm trying to say although very poor :-/

"According to the consensus, I should have gone with Backbone.js in 2011 (then Knockout, Ember, Meteor, Angular…)"

The best investment that I ever did was really learning JavaScript and all it shortcomings. The problem with a longer younger colleague's at work is that they seem to learn frameworks instead. They can make cool stuff but from the moment they are in situations where for example "this" does weird stuff, they don't know why or how.

There is nothing wrong with using frameworks - I use a lot of React these days, before a lot of Backbone - but if you know enough JavaScript changing between them should not be a big deal.

"We are called racist, but no one is racist. We are called xenophobic, but all we are asking for is that the laws are upheld."

I can't comment for the States as I live in Europe... but 99% of the big vocal trump supporters at this side of the ocean are racist and xenophobic like there is no tomorrow. In this country the only political trump supporters are the ones that has historic ties with the nazi's. That the most vocal European Trump supporters at political sides are in most case from extreme right political parties is also very telling.

So yeah it could be that you aren't racist or xenophobic but his message also really speaks to racist all over the world and that is fact.

There are a lot of objective parallels between the rise of Hitler and Trump. When people are comparing him with a facist it's not because they think that tomorrow he will build concentration camps but that he uses the same rhetoric.

Hell in big lines you can compare the arguments that a Hitler used to get in power against that of a Trump and see the same stuff popping up again and again.

Against the elite, the fault of a specific group, talking about deportations, bringing jobs back lost also by foreigners, inward views, derogatory views against foreign countries,... . The list goes on.

We should respect the choice Americans make but when the world is reacting anxious it's about more than simple cliches.