enki

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by enki 18y ago
i see the reason for that: django/contrib/auth/models.py: username = models.CharField(_('username'), max_length=30 fail. had to work around this before.
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by enki 18y ago
signup required. ugh. i won't register before i know if i like it.
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by enki 18y ago
TLDR
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by enki 18y ago
so build your own - if their focus doesn't overlap with yours, there's a good chance you wouldn't compete with each other. actually i know people wanting to build a hackerspace in London right now, i can put you if you want.
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by enki 18y ago
well, the one in vienna (metalab) is explicitly unpolitical, and nb in sf is exclusively about doing stuff too. obviously there are different interpretations of what hackspaces are about, ranging from "infrastructure for projects" to "polit
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by enki 18y ago
yeah, nb is pretty cool, though more focused on hardware than i am. when i'm in sf i still hang out a lot there.
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by enki 18y ago
putting python code in spreadsheet files? sounds like a security nightmare unless they sandbox with pypy.
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by enki 18y ago
btw feedback on the tour idea is very welcome! what can we do to make the most of our time in and around the valley? also it looks like there's a news.yc bug triggered by our domain? (.mjam.at) instead of (mjam.at).
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Tell YC: Mjam West Coast Tour(mjam.at)
8 points by enki 18y ago|3 comments
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by enki 18y ago
god no!
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by enki 18y ago
we're a team of 5 (3 tech, 1 marketing, 1 advertising) with some funding, operating in this space for some months now. looking for a kick-ass graphics designer to join us: paul AT boehm.org
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by enki 18y ago
Objective J + Cappucino
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by enki 18y ago
having an online audience that gives feedback is motivating. even better if your friends (cheerleaders!) are your first users and constantly give you reallife feedback. if you don't have cheerleaders, try to find some. even better, find pro
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by enki 19y ago
don't worry, it's not personal. i've seen similiar dynamics in conference program committees: if you receive a lot of high quality submissions you just have to throw (often truly excellent) stuff away till you're down to a manageable size.
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by enki 19y ago
why do i have to sign up to give it a try?
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by enki 19y ago
the way we're handling this: 1) require no registration 2) allow registration for convenience or features that obviously require it. 3) send out an activation email, but don't bug or even inform the user on the website about it. 4) don't en
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by enki 19y ago
Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
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by enki 19y ago
well, offtopic here, but in short: we initially funded two projects, one of them died before the launch (product almost ready but delayed multiple times), and the other one is doing well but needs to grow a lot faster (with the founders hav
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Ask YC: Impact of Recession on Startup Financing?
22 points by enki 19y ago|19 comments
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by enki 19y ago
Go
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by enki 19y ago
ok, will look into this. what kind of discount is usual at this stage? 20%?
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by enki 19y ago
We're in Austria, and we sent out quite a good number of business plans to people. We had about 15 meetings in January. Most of them have never dealt with teams like ours (4 hacker/designers with business experience), nor internet based bus
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by enki 19y ago
nope, but they look at the percentage and 1% for 15.000 feels little. people aren't used to equity here, so we have a hard time finding people understanding the numbers. even those that understand, don't like the feel of owning less than 10
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Ask YC: Negotiating with Friends/Family/Fools for the first round.
2 points by enki 19y ago|8 comments
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by enki 19y ago
christopher clay who made canvas paint also is the designer of startup http://soup.io/ (kinda like tumblr meets friendfeed) which recently went into beta.
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First YEurope Startup Soup.io launches public beta(soup.io)
5 points by enki 19y ago|2 comments
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by enki 19y ago
that's pretty much the idea behind the metalab ( http://metalab.at/wiki/Folder:V5a-en ) - people working on projects together (and besides one another), mentoring each other.
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by enki 19y ago
The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers, builders, and makers organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The camp provides a relaxed atmosphere for free exchange of technical, social and politi
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Final Call for Papers - CCC Hacker Festival in August(events.ccc.de)
1 points by enki 19y ago|1 comments
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by enki 19y ago
btw. this is an awesome quote from the aho report: "Apart from more resources for R&D and innovation, a paradigm change that would preserve European values in a new social structure is needed for the achievement of the goal of an Innovative

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