TED Community » Luuk van Egeraat

Sign in to send Luuk an email »

About Me

I'm a web-application developer & Javascript enthusiast.

Location:
Netherlands, Wijchen
Current organization:
Bullingdon Research
Current role:
Lead Front End Developer
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Webdevelopment
I am:
Atheist
Languages:
Dutch, English
My website links:
Personal blog
Member Picture

More About Me

An idea worth spreading

Change should go hand-in-hand with joy and fascination

Comments

  • TEDCred score: +0.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

  • A comment on Conversation: What is the greatest security challenge facing humanity today?

    Apr 10 2011: I think the stereotypical "Terrorist" concept is a major "security problem" for everyone living outside of the USA.
    Or some massive earthquake.
  • +1

    A comment on Conversation: What do you want from the news?

    Apr 10 2011: I would prefer less "zooming in" from national news outlets.
    (e.g. single homicide) because that kind of news creates a distorted perception of reality.

    But I actually turned my back to "news" in the traditional TV/magazine way.
    I pick community-oriented news outlets & specific organisations.
    I bundle them up and use Twitter to provide me the links to their news!

    Ow and, after watching
    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/kirk_citron_and_now_the_real_news.html
    it begs the question: Is it even worth it to watch global news?
    Almost all the topics preferred by the speaker to become "Long Stories" are not shown on TV and such.

    EDIT:
    To back up my point on "distorted perception"
    http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html

  • A reply on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

    Apr 10 2011: Thanks for the link! It was great to take a look at.
    The only downside I could think of was the amount of time spent at schools / tutors.
    Therefor I would never have been interested.

    So far the Khan Academy really excites me,
    I hope they will expand their Exercises (only Math so far).

    Also, what do you think should change within higher education?
    Besides that everyone should watch TED ^^ (I believe you posted that somewhere)

  • A comment on Conversation: "What did you want to be when you were little?"

    Apr 9 2011: Programmer, working on expending possibilities of the web ^^
    That idea has never changed btw.

Favorite talksSee all »