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  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

    We didn't drain a swamp, we drained the friggin North Sea. We Dutch are water wizards, show some respect! :rolleyes:

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    Nelek
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    That language... or you will loose your intership at NASA :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

    M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

      Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

      Outside of the Netherlands, these are known as swamps :)

      No they're not... Completely different! You can't have farmlands in a swamp! I'm even a little offended by you calling my beautiful island, polder, and home a swamp :laugh: A polder is man-made land that used to be water. Artificial land, if you will. But the soil is as good as any "regular" land, unlike a swamp which is only good to hide bodies :D

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      Daniel Pfeffer
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      Sander Rossel wrote:

      ... unlike a swamp which is only good to hide bodies

      I wouldn't know; I've never had to hide a body. :D

      Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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        Sander Rossel wrote:

        ... unlike a swamp which is only good to hide bodies

        I wouldn't know; I've never had to hide a body. :D

        Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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        Ever heard of the phrase "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."? I'm that violent psychopath :D Dumping bodies is also a nice skill on your resume :thumbsup:

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        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

          Ever heard of the phrase "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."? I'm that violent psychopath :D Dumping bodies is also a nice skill on your resume :thumbsup:

          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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          I'm familiar with the phrase. My problem with using psychopaths for maintenance or QA is that they let their emotions control. That causes them to make mistakes. I much prefer the old-fashioned methods - proper design, good coding practices, etc., the idea being that if a bug makes it all the way to QA - something has gone very wrong. Of course, I don't work in "Internet time"...

          Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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            I'm familiar with the phrase. My problem with using psychopaths for maintenance or QA is that they let their emotions control. That causes them to make mistakes. I much prefer the old-fashioned methods - proper design, good coding practices, etc., the idea being that if a bug makes it all the way to QA - something has gone very wrong. Of course, I don't work in "Internet time"...

            Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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            Nelek
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            Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

            Of course, I don't work in "Internet time"...

            Don't tell me that you still make holes in the cards to execute code :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh:

            M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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            • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

              Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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              Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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              How you tell the difference between summer and winter? It is unclear from the pictures... (In any case you have a beautiful place to live)

              "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

              "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

                Of course, I don't work in "Internet time"...

                Don't tell me that you still make holes in the cards to execute code :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh:

                M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                Daniel Pfeffer
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                We still use baked clay and cuneiform. :)

                Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                  How you tell the difference between summer and winter? It is unclear from the pictures... (In any case you have a beautiful place to live)

                  "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

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                  The winter pictures should be clear, there's ice on the ground and in the water. That I had the actual date the photos were taken in the filename helped too :laugh:

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                  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                    Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                    David ONeil
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                    Ugh! Too flat! (To each his own. Glad you like it!)

                    The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

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                    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                      Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                      wow

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                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                        Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

                        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                        Looks very tranquil and peaceful. Exactly the kind of place I'd love to live.

                        "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter

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                        • D Dominic Burford

                          Looks very tranquil and peaceful. Exactly the kind of place I'd love to live.

                          "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter

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                          Except for the church bells, which can be heard throughout the village every whole and half hour (although I'm used to them, so I rarely hear them anymore) :)

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                          • D David ONeil

                            Ugh! Too flat! (To each his own. Glad you like it!)

                            The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

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                            Sander Rossel
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                            Welcome to the Netherlands! Our highest "mountain" is the Vaalserberg with its peak at 322 m :laugh: I live on the coast at minus a few meters (we have dykes to keep the water out, another Dutch "invention"!).

                            Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                            • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                              Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

                              Outside of the Netherlands, these are known as swamps :)

                              No they're not... Completely different! You can't have farmlands in a swamp! I'm even a little offended by you calling my beautiful island, polder, and home a swamp :laugh: A polder is man-made land that used to be water. Artificial land, if you will. But the soil is as good as any "regular" land, unlike a swamp which is only good to hide bodies :D

                              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                              Dyess, Arkansas - Wikipedia[^] An American Polder. They grow a lot of rice there now. Johnny Cash's boyhood home.

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                              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

                                Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                rnbergren
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                                looks alot like where I am from. Rural Iowa (Mid Western US). Love the quiet. Nothing to do though.

                                To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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                                  looks alot like where I am from. Rural Iowa (Mid Western US). Love the quiet. Nothing to do though.

                                  To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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                                  rnbergren wrote:

                                  Love the quiet. Nothing to do though.

                                  Yep, same here :D I love it 90% of the time. But that 10% where you want to go out and do something, it sucks.

                                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                  • J Jorgen Andersson

                                    But if you drain a swamp you'll get... Oh, I see, yes you're quite right. Move on folks, nothing to see here.

                                    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                    Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                                    But if you drain a swamp you'll get...

                                    Orange Hair?

                                    #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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                                    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                      Do most of you even know what a polder[^] is? :D Well, as a Dutchie, I live in one! It's quite far from the cities, the nearest big city is Rotterdam at a little over 50 km. My current commute to Utrecht is about 100 km (a good hour drive), but luckily I can work from home one or two days a week (out of four). Anyway, I wouldn't want to move because it's just too quiet and beautiful over here! These pictures were taken just outside my house (I live on the edge of the village) where I like to go for walks. It's all farmlands. Fall 2016: Winter 2016/2017: Summer 2017:

                                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                      mtoha
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                                      Nice wide view. Is that grass? Why the grass not so high? Is there anyone who cut the grass regularly?

                                      Regards M.Toha

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                                      • M mtoha

                                        Nice wide view. Is that grass? Why the grass not so high? Is there anyone who cut the grass regularly?

                                        Regards M.Toha

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                                        Sander Rossel
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                                        mtoha wrote:

                                        Is there anyone who cut the grass regularly?

                                        Yep, probably the farmers who don't want their land to get overgrown. But also the local governments or water authority. Us Dutchies have to keep the ditches clean and clear :) If ditches get filled with reeds and leaves the water won't get away and they'll overflow and we'll sink to the bottom of the ocean. In fact, if you have a ditch on your property it's your responsibility to keep it clean or you'll be fined (but most people don't have ditches in their garden). Living below sea level and all.

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                                        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                          mtoha wrote:

                                          Is there anyone who cut the grass regularly?

                                          Yep, probably the farmers who don't want their land to get overgrown. But also the local governments or water authority. Us Dutchies have to keep the ditches clean and clear :) If ditches get filled with reeds and leaves the water won't get away and they'll overflow and we'll sink to the bottom of the ocean. In fact, if you have a ditch on your property it's your responsibility to keep it clean or you'll be fined (but most people don't have ditches in their garden). Living below sea level and all.

                                          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                          mtoha
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                                          Sander Rossel wrote:

                                          Yep, probably the farmers who don't want their land to get overgrown. But also the local governments or water authority. Us Dutchies have to keep the ditches clean and clear :) If ditches get filled with reeds and leaves the water won't get away and they'll overflow and we'll sink to the bottom of the ocean. In fact, if you have a ditch on your property it's your responsibility to keep it clean or you'll be fined (but most people don't have ditches in their garden). Living below sea level and all.

                                          Can You take pic how can wall protect people from sea water? Is there any walls which is protect land area from sea?

                                          Regards Toha

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