Yes, this is a thing. And even more frequently, online assessments done by someone else. Somehow Java developers got hired who don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Readit NewsI spent 6 months resident in Amsterdam and I have mixed feelings about Dutch attitudes to other races. On the whole it's a very low key, mind-your-own business culture but it has a small but vocal cohort of ultra-nationalists who are vocally opposed to Islamic faith symbols, people of colour, you-name-it.
I routinely heard Dutch neighbours discuss the concerns the non Dutch native working in childcare centres would mean their kids "didn't learn Dutch properly" or "didn't fit in" -dutch people can be very welcoming of visitors but they also form strong bonds early in childhood and hold on for life. Admitting foreigners into the inner circle, the more private space, isn't that common. (This may be an Amsterdam thing but I'm told over in Maastricht people are even more insular, yet Maastricht had a very gay tolerant local administration for years)
Some of this is just "speak Dutch and fit in" and If I lived in a state with so many expatriates who refuse to learn Dutch and rely on the states mandatory 65% pass mark in English to graduate highschool I too might carry resentment.
Some of this reflects the huge numbers of immigrants from former Dutch colonies in Indonesia and Surinam and a very odd mix of views about them, half pride, half embarrassment (at what was perpetrated on their culture) and all dutch: "at least they mostly speak Dutch even if I am racist about them"
Some of this is the general Dutch "fuck you" which goes on at all levels: try to use a 50 euro note.. fuck you. Try to order in a Cafe 45min before closing time.. fuck you. Try to call up to change your residency registration.. fuck you. It's OK, it's normal, they'd do it to each other too. You just ring back later, try next door, move on.
A lot of this is a reaction to a liberal refugee resettlement policy which caused some ghettoisation and drug gang problems (there was a shooting two doors down from my flat at a shisha lounge reflecting this and people list suburbs they think are "not dutch" or "not safe").
It's not new. The Dutch had nazi sympathisers as well as war resistors.
What's admirable is that the government appears to accept the fine. My own country (australia) has similar problems and is more likely to deny this kind of finding or refuse to pay it.
Amsterdam is not reflective of Netherlands, that is saying like NYC or Las Vegas is reflective of the US.
"Non Dutch native working in childcare centres would mean their kids didn't learn Dutch properly". If those non-natives don't speak proper Dutch or with a heavy accent I could understand these parents, kids pick this up and it will influence their learning and future prospects negatively.
I am sorry you felt treated badly but that is not racist, a Dutch person would also get "fuck you" (rot op) if you ordered just for closing, especially because cafes close at 2am in Amsterdam.
You have to adapt to local culture, most people use debit cards and don't pay cash, especially not small items with large bills, if someone tries that, the bill is most likely a fake.
Calling to try to change resident registration?? If you could do that, anyone could easily commit fraud.
Some ghettoisation??? Yes, there are no-go areas, I lived there, try to get a taxi or uber at night going to the K buurt.
An enormous amount (like the average number of people living in a Dutch city) of non-western, low educated immigrants (>80% young men) are coming to Netherlands each year, there is no housing so the government is putting them into camps. This causes a lot of stress and criminality on the surrounding villages. Busses need to drive with police protection.
The tax service paid special attention to immigrants for the day childcare support system because immigrants in average commit more fraud (1) on other areas. This was understandable, not meant to be racist but very wrong and illegal. Also they just clawed the money back and you have to proof that you were innocent and they did not look at the evidence. Tax service uses outdated computer systems which are not connected to local system. Politicians promised to solve it and never did (still not).
(1) Many commit fraud by accident because of language issues and complicated rules. Also there are a lot of traveling immigrants who make mis-use of the Dutch welfare state by applying child credits or unemployment benefits while abroad.
theshowmustgo commented on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/s... · Posted by u/dario_satu
I have an overly-aggressive function in my .bashrc to rename all files in the current directory:
# Rename all files in a directory
rn() {
rename "s/ /-/g" *
rename "s/_/-/g" *
rename "s/–/-/g" *
rename "s/://g" *
rename "s/\(//g" *
rename "s/\)//g" *
rename "s/\[//g" *
rename "s/\]//g" *
rename 's/"//g' *
rename "s/'//g" *
rename "s/,//g" *
rename "y/A-Z/a-z/" *
rename "s/---/--/g" *
rename "s/---/--/g" *
}
Nice but how do you prevent overwrites?
What about directories/folders and the files in that directory/folder?
I have:
Movie Bla (2020)
Movie Bla (2020).mp4
Movie_Bla_(2020)
Movie_Bla_(2020).mp4
Movie_Bla_(2020).srt
Even worse, if you Google my name, the first hit is an empty Facebook page. I don't want to have anything to do with Facebook and I never used any of their products. So somebody (or Facebook themselves) made an account in my name.
There is no way to get rid of it, there is a form where you have to fill in all your personal details and upload a photo ID, but it fails to submit, with "unknown error". Tried several browsers.
Costco killed the combo pizza so I killed Costco from my shopping trips.
Good to see that even Google removed Costco from their search results when you search for Pizza.
theshowmustgo commented on An Overview of Micron’s Automata Processor (2016) [pdf] cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/... · Posted by u/godelmachine
Don't they have spell checker in Virginia?
"Reasearch Areas"
Someone with the same name has some chinese CCTV apps on the Apple appstore, one updated 5 days ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipctester/id870933100
And on Google Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juanvision...
Do they also contain backdoors? Domain and email used: www.dvr163.com caostorm@163.com Screenshots in the app come from this site: http://www.juancctv.com/jishu.asp
What did he do, drive 25MPH average?
It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance.
A Tesla Model S crossed the country in 42 hours and 17 minutes.