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by lowkey 17y ago
Dude, you need Tungle: www.tungle.com Montreal Venture backed startup who have taken on this problem and have done a pretty outstanding job. Have a look at their approach to the problem of scheduling meetings to see if it makes sense. Works
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by lowkey 17y ago
It's bold, audacious, visionary and will most likely fail. I love it! Now if only they could find a way to recruit great engineers to do the heavy lifting to actually engineer and manufacture these vehicles. Kind of reminds me of Cambrian H
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by lowkey 17y ago
I've visited this hackerspace and I have to say, Montreal has an amazing hacker/startup communities going. It must be something to do with all the pretty girls and bagels :)
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by lowkey 17y ago
There is an interesting article in one of Canada's national newspapers that has caused quite a stir among the Canadian VC and startup community. Also, a rebuttal by Rick Segal, a partner with JLA Ventures: http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/
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(Canadian) Venture Capital Breakdown(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by lowkey 17y ago|2 comments
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by lowkey 18y ago
I am a Montreal hacker/entrepreneur and I can honestly say that Montreal has an incredibly tight-knit startup community. I'm in the valley this week so won't be able to miss it, but come out if you are in the city.
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by lowkey 18y ago
This is a very short trip I'm afraid, and short notice too. I will be in San Francisco on Monday afternoon Sunnyvale all day Wednesday. If I get enough response I can arrange a meetup in either location.
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by lowkey 18y ago
I am not sure I know enough about your LED Christmas lights to be helpful, but we are working with newer (and orders of magnitude brighter) lighting-class LEDs which are not really the same thing. Our startup's core technology resides in lo
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by lowkey 18y ago
I will be in San Francisco this Monday afternoon, and am looking to meet up with some local hackers interested in having a look into the future of light. Arkalumen is a bootstrapped startup founded by an exceptional electrical engineer and
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Any hackers in San Francisco willing to meet up? Check out our HW demo?(arkalumen.com)
2 points by lowkey 18y ago|6 comments
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by lowkey 18y ago
This is an amazing movie. I just watched it in its entirety. I just watched it with a friend who is a film maker (has done some Radiohead DVD films among other impressive work.) It sparked a discussion about business models from an artist's
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by lowkey 18y ago
I refuse to call myself a hacker until I can test this. Hot!
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by lowkey 18y ago
Want more, please. Seriously, where can I find more great blog posts like this one. It was meaty, yet still clear and concise. It covered a super-valuable technique in sufficient detail and even included sample python code. Brilliant. We ar
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by lowkey 18y ago
Well technically they are oligopolies, but I completely agree. Our politicos are either sheep or paid shills for the telcos and cablecos. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that we have the highest mobile data rates in the world (or very clo
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Bush's Final F.U.: Bush to screw America over for years to come(rollingstone.com)
3 points by lowkey 18y ago|0 comments
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by lowkey 18y ago
What an incredible year and a great article. It's hard to imagine a scenario where 12 months ago I would have imagined an editorial in the New York Times with the title, "The End of the Financial World As We Know It."
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by lowkey 18y ago
I am looking for some community action for scrapy. It looks useful for a project I'm working on currently using BeautifulSoup but not digging the sluggish performance. I am having trouble resolving the docs to the code. Is there an IRC, mai
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by lowkey 18y ago
It's really nice to have Dean Kamen as a validator for LED lighting. Our startup has developed the brightest and most beautiful LED lamp available at any price, and we plan to sell it at a price that is really nice. We are currently raising
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by lowkey 18y ago
Why I love my Mac, hate web development, and learned to loathe IE6 http://tinyurl.com/5skq8x (screenshots of our website) I am an entrepreneur and a bit of a python hacker but am new to web development as a craft. It was a skill developed
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by lowkey 18y ago
I prefer Mercurial (Hg). I'm sure Git is the preferred choice amongst the alpha of alpha geeks, but for small and medium-sized projects, Hg's simple intuitive command structure, and more than adequate speed (2nd only to Git) is a God send.
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by lowkey 18y ago
The System Access fee is an outright fraud. If any other industry tried to do what the telcos did with the System Access fee they would be charged and convicted as criminals. In Canada the wireless cartel does whatever they want. They have
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by lowkey 18y ago
I would use a basic spreadsheet until you actually get to revenue or have got some outside funding in the door. Keep those fixed expenses as close to zero as possible. For managing startup financial and strategic goals though PlanHQ is real
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by lowkey 18y ago
Yes, in Canada our government doesn't believe in open access or competition, not unless it benefits the incumbent carriers. Innovation in Canada is a bad word as we believe that the big carriers (Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc.) must be protected
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by lowkey 18y ago
Thanks everyone for your feedback. Please keep it coming. For those who are curious here is a bit more context: The company was founded to commercialize technology developed by our founder, an electrical engineer with 15 years of hardware d
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by lowkey 18y ago
Sounds like a startup opportunity. Ebay for sublets. Then again, everyone is going virtual these days so it might be a still born opportunity. As for you specific situation, I would eat the 3 months and be done with it. But perhaps someone
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by lowkey 18y ago
Our startup is preparing to pitch at StartupCampMontreal3 this Thursday and I am looking to the HN community for some feedback and advice. We are a bit of an odd duck since we are not a web app but I have taken some marketing ideas from the
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Ask HN: Feedback on my startup and advice for the big pitch(arkalumen.com)
8 points by lowkey 18y ago|19 comments
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by lowkey 18y ago
Simple, easy, fun, open-source, php, double-click to edit Try Wikka Wiki
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by lowkey 18y ago
Okay, installed. Now need someone to video chat with. Requirements: Intel Mac, Gmail account, Video Chat add-on, a personality.
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by lowkey 18y ago
First impressions: New User Experience: Requires me to give up a lot of personal info without providing me with a compelling reason to do so. Maybe this is typical of Facebook apps but it is still likely to be a significant resistance point

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