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by imack 16y ago
It's simple, secure, stable, allows for group chat, notifies you if the message was received or not, and is pre-installed on BlackBerries so everyone with a BlackBerry has it.
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by imack 16y ago
I can only speculate on the reasoning, but Kik competes with BlackBerry Messenger, which is one of the key features that keeps Blackberry competitive in the smartphone market. Its exclusivity to Blackberry devices gives them some network-e
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by imack 16y ago
A lot of it is centered in video games, as is the history of tech and startups in Vancouver. That ecosystem seems to be doing well.
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Bootup Labs No Longer Accepting New Startup Applications(blog.bootuplabs.com)
1 points by imack 16y ago|0 comments
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by imack 16y ago
Being a Waterloo alum working in Vancouver I'm just used to this ratio and I guess I've just adapted to the fact that its being 'normal' for 30-40% of my colleagues to be asian. But whenever I wonder if I should worry about the fate of my e
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by imack 16y ago
To my knowledge, one must be an accredited investor to go to the private exchange. Thus, the rich are the only ones able to take the risks to become richer.
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by imack 16y ago
Wow, it's almost right out of one of PG's essays: "At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project where a town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacant building as a 'high-tech incubator'" - http://www.paulgraham.com/sta
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by imack 16y ago
Employees care about their companies they way teachers feel about their students, they care about their success and are generally enthusiastic but that particular interaction doesn't define them and it's possible to be just as happy somewhe
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by imack 16y ago
http://profquotes.feedladder.com - funny prof quote app Similar to an idea I showed earlier on HN ( http://laughlitmus.feedladder.com ), I'm basically trying to generalize this as a "Reddit for tweets" to create a collaboratively made twi
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by imack 16y ago
It takes a while to find a use. Originally, I thought it was just the status feature of Facebook for people over 35, so I was wondering why everyone was so excited about a limited feature set. I've definitely come around. I don't think e
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by imack 16y ago
You need to price yourself higher. While $20 for you may be a lot (as I thought it was during school), for a reputable firm this is nothing, and it means you won't be taken as seriously. This manifests as them often wasting your time in t
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Canada's new Governor-General has binary sequence on official coat of arms(cbc.ca)
5 points by imack 16y ago|1 comments
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by imack 16y ago
The 'distinct lack of technical people' is what worries me the most. But I like to think a lot are just tied up in the video game industry. There are a lot of post-secondary institutions around with solid CS programs and it isn't hard to c
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by imack 16y ago
I think you might as well be asking about favourite hockey teams. I moved from the Greater Toronto Area to Vancouver for a startup and find the areas comparable, and I know a handful of my classmates out here. I found Toronto had a lot of
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by imack 16y ago
I really want to attend this but why does it have to happen on the thanksgiving long weekend? Or is that intentional since there will be a buffer day between this and the normal work week?
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by imack 16y ago
Hootsuite is becoming a bit of a success story. Bootup Labs will have another intake in the new year, so we'll see what happens with that. "Plug and Play Tech Center" is opening an incubator here, and the Grow Conference happened over the
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by imack 16y ago
I use the library a lot, but in a weird way I actually find it quieter in a coffee shop. Libraries are mostly quiet, but the one group of gossiping people pretending to study becomes that much more annoying since you can make out every wor
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by imack 16y ago
http://mdlabs.se/sleepcycle/ Similar idea, except uses the accelerometer in the iPhone itself.
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by imack 16y ago
I find the tips relating to "VC as Staffing Agency" the most interesting. I wonder if this stems more from the NYC startup issue of competing with wall street for talent. If the focus is working for a portfolio company of [X], rather than
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by imack 16y ago
When I was in my last year of school and attending a bunch of recruiting events there was one CEO from a mid-sized consultancy who impressed us all by taking a call from his wife in the middle of his presentation in front of couple hundred
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by imack 16y ago
The idea of counting favourites or retweets is actually the idea I was working against. I've always figured that makes it easy to find already easy to find tweets. To say nothing of "retweeted alot" != "funny", even if its from a comedian
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by imack 16y ago
I'm trying the "digg for tweets" thing ( http://laughlitm.us ), its hard to gain traction because its hard to get a viral loop going without needlessly injecting the site into retweets. I am happy with how people can submit though.
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by imack 16y ago
I have to say that I also have never encountered this (aside from my mom who prefers I work for companies she's heard of so she can tell her friends, but that's not common). I've seen people treat founders the way you would a 12 year-old wi
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by imack 16y ago
"Government grants and funds prop up a large percentage of Canadian startups for the 5 years or so that they manage to survive." I used to work for one of these. Being greentech is a great way to have a the government be your VC. I rememb
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by imack 16y ago
A slight addendum to this, show this list to someone you know who isn't a techie. I mailed this list to my parents and was amazed at what their problems were in many of these fields. I've always figured that people outside the 18-35 male g
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by imack 16y ago
I doubt the banks would give a loan to someone with no assets who could discharge the loan with little trouble 4 years later. In all likelihood, banks would require co-signing of loans with parents. While this would definitely limit access
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by imack 16y ago
I read the first couple of paragraphs thinking that this was an op-ed by the former Prime Minister. It wasn't until I came across the word "apeshit" that I began to wonder.
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by imack 16y ago
At the last startup I worked at we had a movie night where we watched this. A non-programmer PM was, at the time, pressuring us to hire more developers by loosening our standards to get more bodies working on features. There's a great lin
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by imack 16y ago
I have concerns (as a Vancouverite) about the ability to attract talent, and the general way business has been handled in general. Vancouver salaries are notoriously low given the very high cost of living. I've also brushed up against a "
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by imack 16y ago
The smallish town was/is Waterloo. The RIM HQ is close enough to the University of Waterloo campus that the two entities have sold buildings to one another. In a speech he gave once I heard him draw the analogy about putting the refinery r

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