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calculuson Ask HN: What would you do if you were RIM's new CTO?

Drop the harware business, and focus on getting the complete device management software solutions that companies can't live without. (from cloud backup to security enhanced android forks)

calculuson Show HN: Our Startup Weekend Project

I just discovered you're also from France. Hello from Toulouse!

calculuson Show HN: Our Startup Weekend Project

C++/Qt for me :) But if my app have some success, I'll write a Cocoa app for Mac.

calculuson Show HN: Our Startup Weekend Project

That's quite like the idea I've been working on the last few weeks! My idea is like yours but for groups of people, more in a "newsgroup way".

Which technology did you used for the cross-platform client ?

Good luck!

calculuson Ask HN: Stripe equivalent in the EU?

Heavy regulation (due to customers protection) prevents small players to engage the market. Without few millions and an army of lawyers, you can't.

calculuson Ask HN: Stripe equivalent in the EU?

I'm in the exact same situation, it's a real problem in Europe :(

calculuson Github is down

Github is up ... at least when accessed from my town (Europe)

calculuson Ask HN:Launch your product without being incorporated?

Limited liability and credibility (people DO read legal mentions!)

calculuson Ask HN: What do I do?

Marketplaces are hard to launch.

Try to be the leader in your district (post tracts, talk to people, geotargeted ads), then be the leader in the others nearest districts, then you city, then...

calculuson Using Git with Dropbox

For a single coder, I see no problems.

calculuson The Consumerization of IT: The Biggest Trend in Your Career and Business

The Consumerization of IT brings many opportunities for startups that have to seduce the consumers in order to get access the businesses. It's "Saas 2.0".

calculuson Play framework 2.0 vs 1.x

I had so many problems due to bytecode enhancement throwing raging ClassCastExceptions that I'll not even try version 2.

From now, my new projects are in JEE6.

calculuson Using Git with Dropbox

Am I wrong, or does pushing to the dropboxed git repo at the same time from two different computers will corrupt the repo ?

calculuson Ask HN: When was the last time you printed out code?

About 6 years ago, and I don't miss it! I still print specs because when working on a team, it's very handy.

calculuson How Badly Do We Want a New Java Date/Time API?

That's hardly an issue : just use joda time.

calculuson Ask HN: US presence needed?

I already looked at the possibility of incorporating in Delaware/Nevada. It's quite easy, but opening a "real" bank account and registering with Stripe will require an american SSN.

And for the co-founder, I do not search a soulless paperwork filling monkey, but a real partner to take charge of all the important non-technicals tasks, like marketing to the US, sales driving, etc etc.