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by plehoux 8y ago
In 1918, the Canadian/British army opened fire on people from my own neighbourhood in Quebec city, many deaths. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89meute_de_Qu%C3%A9bec_de_... This is never talked about by politic
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by plehoux 8y ago
Internal
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by plehoux 8y ago
I'm the CEO at Conferencebadge.com but I also happen to be the CEO at https://missiveapp.com , a team communication SAAS. Both home pages were designed by the same team. Designing Missive's home page was way harder. Why
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by plehoux 8y ago
Missive is a central hub for all your team communications, both internal (chat) and external (emails, Twitter, Fb, SMS). We offer an email client like interface (thread based). The key difference is we offer internal chat (no tied to extern
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by plehoux 8y ago
Same with us at last year at missiveapp.com, the interview was relaxed, still could not articulate what we were doing based on the questions. They even talked about some of our metrics at the end, those were wrong, like from the previous ti
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by plehoux 8y ago
Statu quo is also hurting the local economy. All local businesses have to charge taxes to customers, they are at disadvantage to foreign based companies.
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by plehoux 8y ago
As shown here, Electron app can support this easily: https://medium.com/missive-app/make-your-electron-app-dark-m...
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Make your Electron app Dark Mode compatible(medium.com)
1 points by plehoux 8y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 8y ago
If you are interested in how to make your Electron app dark mode compatible (with CSS), here is how we did it: https://medium.com/missive-app/make-your-electron-app-dark-m...
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by plehoux 8y ago
This presentation by David Bennahum, who moved his startup from NYC to Montreal is fascinating even for me a guy born and raised in Quebec. He talks about personal compensation, taxes, subsidies & tax credits, insurance, visas, etc... a
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by plehoux 8y ago
Not really, maybe if bought in bulk. 5$ for 1g seems pretty competitive with black market.
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by plehoux 8y ago
See Quebec province online store for pot: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ which launched this morning.
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by plehoux 8y ago
If you are interested to see what/how the products are marketed, see the SQDC website from Quebec province: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ 1g = ~CAD$5
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Facebook app reviewing process now takes more than 6 to 8 weeks…(imgur.com)
9 points by plehoux 8y ago|1 comments
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by plehoux 8y ago
At Missive, we offer a hybrid approach that merges the silos of both external and internal communication back into one app. https://missiveapp.com/slack-vs-missive (detailed post, with meat) As foreign as chat is to email,
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by plehoux 8y ago
Deleting characters in a textarea on an HTML page with more than a few thousand characters is incredibly slow on an iPhone X device. STEPS: 1. Visit https://missiveapp.com/iphone_x_test_case with an iPhone X 2. Focus the te
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iPhone X is incredibly slow at deleting characters in a textarea, it's shocking!(youtube.com)
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Pixel tracking and GDPR(gdpreu.org)
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by plehoux 8y ago
Europe/Japan are as worried as USA about IP theft and totally unfair access to the Chinese market. India and South-East Asia countries have no love affair with China. Africa is more and more disillusioned with China `investments`.
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by plehoux 9y ago
One thing that annoys me on Netflix... is the Netflix logo on show's thumbnail... I wouldn't mind a Netflix label in the UI, but watermarking every covers feels gross, it dilutes the personality of each show.
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by plehoux 9y ago
What about ... Nafta, Steel tariff, Boeing VS Bomboardier, Trans-Pacific Partnership... all those moves go against neoliberal ideas.
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by plehoux 9y ago
Same for me on a 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 13" Macbook pro. I had to revert back to Chrome. e.g. Animations on stripe.com would auto max out my CPU.
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by plehoux 9y ago
Thanks, make sense. At Missive, we have yet to integrate with Twitter/Facebook... but as you mentioned even if it's less important, it's still a big sale argument for a platform like ours.
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by plehoux 9y ago
Curious to know the "@company - twitter account" importance compare to the other one you have listed?
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by plehoux 9y ago
> When I see missive, I see "team email with chat." Well, we chat on Discord already, so that's not the pain point. Pain point here is when you start to have those internal conversations spread across many silos. There is
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by plehoux 9y ago
I'm the co-founder at Missive[1], an email client for teams. Our vision is to become the communication hub for any business, by both replacing email client and chat app. A lot of people compares us to Front, but we are more focused on
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by plehoux 9y ago
Quebec, Canada == free + 1 year maternity leave at 75% of your salary + a lot $$ by both Quebec province and federal governments.
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by plehoux 9y ago
Immigrants pay taxes.
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by plehoux 9y ago
Benatar never answered any of Harris counter-arguments. Made absolutely no sense to me. Being anti-natalist, but stating suicide his morally wrong? If life is so painful that we should not give it to someone, why one should not kill himself
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by plehoux 9y ago
> With the arrival of autonomous drones, industrial drones, better sensors and better prediction we should be able do a better job saving our forests, cities and firefighters. My wife is a forest engineer and a good friend of her works a

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