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sylvinus

2,816 karma · joined December 10, 2010

Founder/Co-founder/CTO: Pricing Assistant, dotConferences, Jamendo, TEDxParis, Joshfire

Angel investor in 120+ companies and 10+ funds.

Now working with the French government: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2025/01/public-sector/

All my projects: http://sylvinus.org/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sylvinus; my proof: https://keybase.io/sylvinus/sigs/jQNfmDNeTbuL2y1OAPyyoDrd7JYaHnFzi650ZkAWWuw ]

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sylvinus··on Response to OkCupid's blocking of Firefox users
Thanks. As a conference organizer who's trying to welcome everyone to his events, it feels a bit risky, but ultimately right.

Can you detail what you don't agree on? Happy to have a sane discussion here.

sylvinus··on OkCupid Is Browser-Blocking Firefox to Support Gay Rights
I just reacted to this: https://medium.com/dotconferences-posts/5f43d452bd89
sylvinus··on Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
Seems great! I'm wondering what the incentive is for users to endorse comments, beyond improving HN's quality?

There is a malus for endorsing bad comments, shouldn't there be a built-in bonus for well-behaving endorsers, to compensate and make the system self-sufficient?

sylvinus··on Doge2048
wow.
sylvinus··on Goodbye Popcorn Time
Someone from Hollywood made them write that :)
sylvinus··on The European Go Conference, October 10th in Paris
If you plan your trip a couple months before (or even now) you should get pretty good rates on Eurostar+hotel.

For the experience, definitely not an issue... Most attendees will be just like you and 1 year experience is already quite good for such a young language!

sylvinus··on The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
Maybe somebody like the Bitcoin foundation doing some crisis management and taking over what's left of MtGox to save the market?
sylvinus··on The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
There you go: http://imgur.com/MwPTktl
sylvinus··on Don't End The Week With Nothing
What you've built looks very nice. Contact me if you're looking for a semi-remote Python gig in Paris :)
sylvinus··on Docker Raises $15M
Sincere congrats! :)
sylvinus··on The Next Phase of Node.js
Are you actually suggesting to divert UN money to run NPM servers? ;-)
sylvinus··on Real-time applications and will Django adapt?
From what I understood, Meteor does tail the MongoDB oplog.
sylvinus··on RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
If it was a JavaScript snippet Google wouldn't index it. They would need a wordpress plugin or something on the backend.
sylvinus··on The Need for Speed
The video will be released in the next few days! :)
sylvinus··on Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days
I'll admit being skeptic at first but every time we asked @jberrebi for help in my previous Kima-backed company, he was both smart and fast. Impressive feat with so many startups in the portfolio+pipeline.
sylvinus··on Inside the race to rescue a health site, and Obama
Amazingly, the website appears to be down again! https://www.healthcare.gov/

Looks like they had planned that downtime, but I wonder how messed up this whole project must be that they can't even manage to have a static maintenance page up!

sylvinus··on Jenkin developers accidentally do "git push --force" to over 150 repos on github
right, thanks!
sylvinus··on Dart 1.0 launch is imminent
This seems really close to the Chrome Developer Summit (http://developer.chrome.com/devsummit) so I guess it will be launched there!
sylvinus··on Jenkin developers accidentally do "git push --force" to over 150 repos on github
Messing up with git and apologizing publicly is hardly being a jerk IMHO.
sylvinus··on Nexus 5
I'm getting 349€ from France.
sylvinus··on Brendan Eich (JS inventor, Mozilla CTO) on stage at dotJS in Paris, Dec 2nd
Thanks, that is what we strive for :)
sylvinus··on Brendan Eich (JS inventor, Mozilla CTO) on stage at dotJS in Paris, Dec 2nd
I actually used the same wording as his official bio: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/bios/brendan-eich/

I do agree that "inventor" is much stronger than "creator" but in the case of something as huge as JavaScript itself, I think he deserves it :)

sylvinus··on My Friends and I Bought an Island
One question: weren't you afraid not to have visited the island before you made an offer?
sylvinus··on Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker
Would be awesome to have RQ compatibility too ;-) http://python-rq.org
sylvinus··on World
Saw the talk by Martin at JSConf.eu today explaining how he did it. Just brilliant! http://2013.jsconf.eu/speakers/martin-kleppe-1024-seconds-of...
sylvinus··on Lanyrd acquired by Eventbrite
Warm congrats!
sylvinus··on Full dotRB 2013 speaker lineup revealed (Paris, Oct 18th)
True. Although the part that you can legally visit is still nothing like the real thing (http://www.zoriah.net/blog/2009/02/catacombs-of-paris-the-re...)
sylvinus··on Full dotRB 2013 speaker lineup revealed (Paris, Oct 18th)
Yes it is! We will also do a RailsGirls event on the weekend after the event. And we will be happy to help anyone organize a longer stay in our city ;-)
sylvinus··on Full dotRB 2013 speaker lineup revealed (Paris, Oct 18th)
BTW we still have a Call for Lightning Talks open: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dENhN0t...
sylvinus··on [dead]
I won't comment on the private matters here but one has to wonder about the implications of wearing Google Glasses continuously in these troubled last few months.
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