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BrechtVds

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About BrechtVds

Belgian micropreneur on the road to freedom. @BrechtVds

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8207622

    Love the "text me a link" feature! The app itself looks nice and clean as well, with some great animations (the pull-to-refresh one, for example).

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    Comment #8196263

    > Its latest composite bat, the Avenge L140B, has special construction that allows the hitting side to flex like a spring. I'm not familiar with baseball (Belgian here) and was won…

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    Comment #7898086

    Just guessing: it follows your phone?

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    Comment #7772540

    For WordPress plugins and themes I enjoy https://easydigitaldownloads.com It's not perfect, but has some nice plugins (licensing!).

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    Comment #7703605

    As I understand it there are 6 peers with the following situation: - Between 1 to 20 ports between Level3 and that peer - 1 of those ports is congested - They are handling the upgr…

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    Comment #7384969

    I'm wondering if the A/B testing score was skewed due to it being the first non-working link in the menu. Someone going through the menu to see what's possible will probably take a…

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    Comment #6874227

    Props to Microsoft for opening up the devkit to everyone. It's not their fault that some people just love screwing other people over.

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    Comment #6846411

    There is one in the top right corner (underneath the language part) for me. Although it does seem to disappear whenever you start scrolling.

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    Comment #6846176

    The "Scroll down" hint wasn't obvious enough for me. I'd also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite so…

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    Comment #6515218

    That does sound like a scammy experience. Personally I wouldn't mind about leaving my CC details if I was told the entire truth afterwards and then had the opportunity to opt-in ag…

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    Comment #6515116

    It's hard to experiment if everyone knows what's going on. If you didn't like the experiment you had the possibility to opt-out and never become a customer of him again, without ha…

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    Comment #6514893

    As I understand it customers were informed about the change in plans before they had to hand over their money, so it's definitely not as bad as you put it. The roadmap was actually…

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    Comment #6514802

    Communicating about it would defeat the entire purpose of the idea. The way he did it allowed him to validate the idea in the exact same situation he would end up after building it…

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    Comment #6514435

    "taking people's money under the banner ..." He didn't actually charge people before the product was finished and they were able to opt-out after they knew what happened. Would hav…

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    Comment #6487767

    Attending!

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    Comment #5710513

    Comments at the right edge of the screen are unreadable as the balloon is partly outside the window. Would be nice if they would pop up to the left, in that case. Beautiful design …

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    Comment #5631143

    Apple in apple: http://imgessence.com/browse/view/370