Abel

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bio	website	undermyhat.org
	location	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	age	39
visits	member for	1 year, 1 month
	seen	Jan 7 at 12:15
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"Programming is like arts. The craft can be taught, but creativity must come elsewheres."

I love autumn in a German forest, I relax by playing Liszt, Debussy or Grieg and enjoy teaching skiing in winter. And between all that, I do some new product development to make a living.

20 years experience in programming from Fortran to C++ to Java to C# to F#

You can reach me at Twitter, by mail abel.braaksma@exselt.net, on my blog Under My Hat, my outsourcing and consultancy firm Abrasoft or our upcoming XSLT 3.0 Streaming processor Exselt.

	168 reputation	bio	website	undermyhat.org	visits	member for	1 year, 1 month
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May 7	accepted	Did we first have swimming birds or flying birds?
May 7	comment	Did we first have swimming birds or flying birds? Ok, seems a fair line of thought, but if this were true, why do we have flying fish (ok, not really flying, but still, they could have evolved from there)?
May 7	comment	Did we first have swimming birds or flying birds? Thanks for the extensive answer, so there's a gap of at least ~25 million years, considering the current state of knowledge.
May 6	awarded	Editor
May 6	revised	What is the most difficult feature to explain evolutionarily? typo of double "has been"
May 6	suggested	suggested edit on What is the most difficult feature to explain evolutionarily?
May 6	asked	Did we first have swimming birds or flying birds?
Apr 16	awarded	Scholar
Apr 16	accepted	Can all mammals swim?
Apr 16	comment	Can all mammals swim? +1 Interesting, nice find! I just found out that hippos can't swim either, because they're too dense and would sink. They "walk" across the bottom.
Apr 16	awarded	Supporter
Apr 16	awarded	Student
Apr 15	comment	Can all mammals swim? @CHM: the way I see it, moving through the water without drowning and without walking on the bottom of the river/lake.
Apr 15	comment	Can all mammals swim? @Kevin: fair enough. Yet, to prove that all mammals can swim may require research on each of the species, but to prove the opposite only requires proof that one species really can't swim.
Apr 15	asked	Can all mammals swim?
Apr 15	awarded	Autobiographer