The law involves confiscating valuables and money, but it does so much more than that, including, but not limited to, increasing the waiting period for family reunification.
People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excuse to use the misnomer, which is bad journalism on their part.
It’s basically in the interest of the administration that people only thought the bill concerned jewelry confiscation, as it distracted from all the other heinous things in the text.
The former bill, which has since become law, is L87 (ie Bill 87).
"In the Netherlands, asylum seekers are supposed to declare their assets, and deductions can be made if this exceeds €5,895 for an individual or €11,790 for a family."
Neither will you in Denmark. It's the same approach.
This is what's so sad about this whole story. It's taken completely out of it's context and presented as if danish police are standing there waiting to strip people of their values before they enter the country.
I accept that the situation may be misrepresented, but your own link states otherwise:
Police can seize cash over 10,000 kroner [..] as well as individual items [..] such as watches, mobile phones and computers
money and valuables will be confiscated on arrival [..] Assets discovered at a later stage [..] may also be taken
So if the BBC article is inaccurate about the Danish situation, I don't think you should assume it is any more correct about the Swiss, Dutch or German situation.
His former boss and predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Bush’s biggest supporter and ditto on the Iraq War.
He has a vested interest in ignorance of the past—so much so that he shut down the investigative committee for the very same war as one of the first things when he won the election last year.
GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is.
A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/.
I gained a new appreciation of GIFs that day.
That said, it would be great if we got a compromise where browsers can load only the first frame of the GIF and play the reminder on click or touch to save all the loading and data—on both sides, really.
Oh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/. It’s not directly relevant to the aforementioned article. :)
> That said, it would be great if we got a compromise
Wouldn't a better compromise be to support MP4/WebM videos in the IMG tag? Videos embedded this way could play without audio by default (just like GIFs).
What I mean to say is that, sometimes, public transit is less something to “figure out” than something to “get right”. We got public transportation right, but we’ve been doing our darndest to fuck it up on multiple occasions.
You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outlook app instead.
So the effectively broke all Exchange/Google-related updates for people at work and home, since the app stops to fetch updates—I stopped receiving e-mails from what I can tell.
I’m sure you have more great suggestions for what can go on the list; new models keep popping up with companies like Patreon.
Feel free to—also—post your suggestions on the Gist. GitHub currently does not support notifications for gists, so don’t get mad if I don’t get back to you. :)
They're a sports betting exchange, i.e. they connect users who want to make bets against eachother. They're headquartered in Dublin, and registered in Gibraltar. Their target audience appears to be the UK and Europe.
I once used a SaaS—or whatever you call the abstraction on top of that—and ended up paying $80 for a “sample” EC2 instance of theirs that was just idling, after I had activated it a month earlier.
Soured me on trying out new platform services pretty damn hard.
Communicating the progress of a project or feature is something really important I think open-source people need to realize, when they have a fairly non-technical audience.
I think GitHub milestones are central to productivity and communicating progress to a base of interested parties, so I would recommend focusing on milestones specifically—also to encourage their use—rather than showing one huge list of issues by default. It’s fairly disorienting, even to me as a regular GitHub user and contributor.
Those cards take up an awful lot of vertical space, which I don’t think is going to scale well with a large project. Look at project like Bootstrap: https://waffle.io/twbs/bootstrap. Because you load the issue on scroll, I can’t even get an idea of how many issues there are from the size of my scroll bar. Milestones are the main way for repo owners to manage a large number of issues.
From what I could tell, you can sort by milestones using a filter, but for some reason, the list of milestones wouldn’t load?
A while back, I created a small never-to-be-finished project called milestones.js to involve a general audience in the progress of upcoming features—taking advantage of milestones: https://github.com/ndarville/milestones.js. At the bottom of the README are some related projects that might be of interest to you as well.
In other words:
1. Find out who you want your users to be.
2. Find out what they should be shown.
3. Focus on milestones, GitHub’s killer productivity feature.
4. Fit more issues vertically; the card metaphor isn’t that important.
5. Know that the dynamic loading of issues on scroll is working against you from a UX perspective.
Funny you bring up the aspect of saving the trees, because I followed up the post with a suggestion for how Google can reduce the waste by taking more control of the print experience in Chrome: http://www.modrenman.com/2013/05/01/save-the-rainforest-goog....
More than anything else, I just wanted to bring attention to something I think many people don’t know about, because I think it’s mostly a case of people not minding printed web pages rather than them not caring.
People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excuse to use the misnomer, which is bad journalism on their part.
It’s basically in the interest of the administration that people only thought the bill concerned jewelry confiscation, as it distracted from all the other heinous things in the text.
The former bill, which has since become law, is L87 (ie Bill 87).