Elias Van Ootegem

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bio website stackoverflow.com/users/…
location Belgium
age 26
visits member for 5 months
seen Mar 13 at 9:32
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I work -or have worked- with:

  • PHP (OOP, with or without Zend Framework)
  • Javascript (+ jQuery)
  • MySQL (including triggers, Foreign Keys and stored procedures)
  • COBOL (Micro-Focus)
  • HTML & CSS
  • current OS's: Windows 7, Linux (Slackware), OSX (10.6)

Currently learning:

  • C/C++ (Visual C++)
  • Objective-C

I don't like:

  • Questions on JavaScript, answerd with 'use jQuery'
  • Solutions that are needlessly complex
  • Answers with Regular expressions to solve a problem that didn't require Regex's
  • People treating StackOverflow as a code generator
  • No acceptance or UP-votes for people who deserved it.

Stuff I find to be true:

  • If your solution relies on more than 3 regular expressions at any given time, you're part of the problem.
  • 'Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.' — Brian Kernighan
  • On eval in JavaScript: When all you have is the eval hammer, everything looks like
    your thumb.

    Brendan Eich - discussing the arguments.callee in strict mode

Mar
13
comment “startx” not found in Slackware 14.0
Have you tried visudo and add test ALL = (root, test) ALL to the file, so that you can sudo as root from your test user... In case you're not familiar with the site here's all you need to know on the sudoers file
Feb
15
awarded  Scholar
Feb
15
accepted Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
Feb
15
answered Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
Feb
8
comment Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
@JohnSiu: Ping google works just fine, added abbreviated output of traceroute -n 8.8.8.8 to the question, too
Feb
8
revised Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
added 607 characters in body
Feb
7
awarded  Editor
Feb
7
comment Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
@JohnSiu: added additional info
Feb
7
revised Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
added 1164 characters in body
Feb
7
asked Wifi connection works but can't connect to internet
Nov
26
awarded  Autobiographer