Comments for Jilles' weblog http://www.jilles.net Insert witty tagline here Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:36:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Denmark compared to the Netherlands by Roelie http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/12/20/denmark-compared-to-the-netherlands/#comment-1358 Roelie Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:15:47 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/?p=157#comment-1358 Hoi Jilles, op deze update zaten we te wachten, veel info over Denemarken en gelijk ook de vergelijking Denemarken/Nederland. Dat het voedsel en de drank daar aan de prijs zijn wisten we maar dat de belastingen daar zo hoog zijn dat dus niet...(en wij in Nederland maar klagen) Financieel gezien is het dus geen aantekkelijk land, het voordeel daarvan?: minder buitenlanders? Wat betreft nieuwe kennissen/vrienden maken: dat wordt dus straks echt een abo op de sportschool ;-) Heb een goede tijd in Denemarken! Hoi Jilles,
op deze update zaten we te wachten, veel info over Denemarken en gelijk ook de vergelijking Denemarken/Nederland.
Dat het voedsel en de drank daar aan de prijs zijn wisten we maar dat de belastingen daar zo hoog zijn dat dus niet…(en wij in Nederland maar klagen) Financieel gezien is het dus geen aantekkelijk land, het voordeel daarvan?: minder buitenlanders?

Wat betreft nieuwe kennissen/vrienden maken: dat wordt dus straks echt een abo op de sportschool ;-)

Heb een goede tijd in Denemarken!

]]> Comment on Denmark compared to the Netherlands by Jilles http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/12/20/denmark-compared-to-the-netherlands/#comment-1075 Jilles Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:22:06 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/?p=157#comment-1075 Rune! Thanks for the comments and the Danish point of view. The point about mobility hadn't crossed my mind as such. This must give rise to subtler differences (more family businesses? more occurences where husband and wife work for the same employer?). In any case, it reminds me of emancipation, which is in the remainder of topics I want to write about. I will more than gladly take you up on points 2 and 4: seems like an excellent start of 2009! Rune! Thanks for the comments and the Danish point of view. The point about mobility hadn’t crossed my mind as such. This must give rise to subtler differences (more family businesses? more occurences where husband and wife work for the same employer?). In any case, it reminds me of emancipation, which is in the remainder of topics I want to write about.

I will more than gladly take you up on points 2 and 4: seems like an excellent start of 2009!

]]> Comment on Denmark compared to the Netherlands by Rune http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/12/20/denmark-compared-to-the-netherlands/#comment-1074 Rune Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:40:40 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/?p=157#comment-1074 Hey Jilles. Nice article and good idea! I am hoping to see a lot of comments on this one :) I have some extra added bonus information for you and your readers: 1. Cars and taxes: Actually because of the high price you pay for a car in DK people are actually less mobile when it comes to picking a job. If the company is too far away from your home you might end up with having to buy a second car (one for your wife!) thus actually getting a much lower bottomline income. Bad thing i would say... 2. Restaurants: We do go out - both to eat and drink - but culturally it is most often something we danes do in weekends. And btw. you are completely right about your points about us being "home people". We tend to like to keep a great part of our social interactions close to heart. But still we do often go to the movies, play pool, do sports during weeknight - so these things would also be nice ice-breakers into the social domain of the troglodyte-danes. Offer: come by one day and my family will serve you dinner and wine... :) 3. Public tv: yes we do have two completely public channels, but we (that is every dane owning a tv or radio) also do have to pay an astronomical high license (2100 kr) for those. So perhaps commercials would have been better. 4. Added bonus: Alcohol. We drink appr. 2,5 liters of pure alchol more than the average dutch person. Why? Colder up here? More boring? The dutch have other substitutes in the realm of getting pissed? I dunno... but basic fact - so get started Jilles. Hey Jilles. Nice article and good idea! I am hoping to see a lot of comments on this one :)

I have some extra added bonus information for you and your readers:

1. Cars and taxes: Actually because of the high price you pay for a car in DK people are actually less mobile when it comes to picking a job. If the company is too far away from your home you might end up with having to buy a second car (one for your wife!) thus actually getting a much lower bottomline income. Bad thing i would say…

2. Restaurants: We do go out - both to eat and drink - but culturally it is most often something we danes do in weekends. And btw. you are completely right about your points about us being “home people”. We tend to like to keep a great part of our social interactions close to heart. But still we do often go to the movies, play pool, do sports during weeknight - so these things would also be nice ice-breakers into the social domain of the troglodyte-danes. Offer: come by one day and my family will serve you dinner and wine… :)

3. Public tv: yes we do have two completely public channels, but we (that is every dane owning a tv or radio) also do have to pay an astronomical high license (2100 kr) for those. So perhaps commercials would have been better.

4. Added bonus: Alcohol. We drink appr. 2,5 liters of pure alchol more than the average dutch person. Why? Colder up here? More boring? The dutch have other substitutes in the realm of getting pissed? I dunno… but basic fact - so get started Jilles.

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]]> Comment on Memcached usage across large web properties by Edward http://www.jilles.net/perma/2007/05/29/memcached-discussions-bloglines-facebook/#comment-789 Edward Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:06:06 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/perma/2007/05/29/memcached-discussions-bloglines-facebook/#comment-789 And again about this. If the search engines learn to understand the meaning, the bloggers have poizgolyatsya to be readable and do not like the others. And again about this. If the search engines learn to understand the meaning, the bloggers have poizgolyatsya to be readable and do not like the others.

]]> Comment on On User Experience by Herjen http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/10/27/on-user-experience/#comment-788 Herjen Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:52:59 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/?p=69#comment-788 Well i never encountered a user friendly beamer, i am not that surprised that they just put the light indicator of a button in a different position. Don't even get me started about the preference menu's on beamer. And since a beamer is standing usal far away from the actual laptop or desktop computer, why didn't all the beamer company's out there switch to wireless when this technology became possible? (beamer in the picture with all the beautiful wires at the back). Apple, beamers please! Well i never encountered a user friendly beamer, i am not that surprised that they just put the light indicator of a button in a different position. Don’t even get me started about the preference menu’s on beamer. And since a beamer is standing usal far away from the actual laptop or desktop computer, why didn’t all the beamer company’s out there switch to wireless when this technology became possible? (beamer in the picture with all the beautiful wires at the back).
Apple, beamers please!

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]]> Comment on Specifications? How? by kj http://www.jilles.net/perma/2004/07/10/software-specifications-but-how/#comment-599 kj Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:27:17 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/perma/2006/03/05/software-specifications-but-how/#comment-599 Word is OK for me with review functionality turned on ;) Word is OK for me with review functionality turned on ;)

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