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Laurentvw

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About Laurentvw

Hi, my name is Laurent Van Winckel. I'm a developer and entrepreneur from Belgium.

I'm currently starting an own startup studio called BootVentures.

I love to network with like-minded people, so feel free to add me on

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurentvw
  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/laurent
  Gtalk: x@y.com where x=laurentvw and y=gmail

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    Just wondering if there are any trade-offs to consider if I were to use Google Workspace (G Suite) instead of a provider like ProtonMail. Using a custom domain with Google's paid s…

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    For anyone interested, there's a tool http://www.aging.ai which does exactly that, using deep-learning algorithms on, and I quote, "hundreds of thousands anonymized human blood tes…

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    Comment #20918482

    I love the simplicity of it! Perhaps it would be nice if you could switch between YTD, 1 week, and 1 day performance. How frequently is it being updated? Maybe you could indicate w…

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    Comment #16272297

    Sounds interesting! Does anyone have examples of AI startups that solve real world problems? Just trying to get a picture of what companies would fit their fund.

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    Comment #12336310

    Hi, I'm Laurent, the creator of Snapdex. Snapdex is a fully editable directory of Snapchat users. It just got featured on Product Hunt ( https://www.producthunt.com/tech/snapdex ),…

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    Comment #12320198

    Really fun game! Reminds me of https://geoguessr.com which drops you in a random location (in Street View mode) and your task is to pinpoint the location on a map.

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    Comment #9907320

    Has anyone tried this on their github account? I'd like to see what the commits look like. Edit: Looks like it's just hundreds of hello world commits. I was expecting unique code f…

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    Comment #5047660

    I used to read his blog. Here's something I will always remember. When they sold Reddit to Conde Nast, back in 2007 or so, Aaron Swartz wrote something about it on his blog, saying…

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    Comment #4678260

    Here's the schedule: http://i.imgur.com/iodVL.jpg (Photo taken by Robert Scoble)

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    Comment #3169284

    So he's going to use iTunes, Grooveshark and Pandora. Now that seems, well, cumbersome to me. Too bad Spotify bothers him -- even though it may lack some songs and features, I don'…

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    Comment #1014195

    And I can't believe it's been exactly 1000 days ago since I signed up on HN. Seems so long ago. Thanks to the great quality submissions and the smart community I've tagged along th…

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    Comment #785883

    It definitely took more than 3 hours, I'm not superman lol. Everything was made from scratch. The admin panel took most of my time. Keep in mind I also made the design, registered …

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    Comment #785795

    Just for the sake of giving us more information, would you be willing to compare your RoR app with a website I made a while ago. I got paid $500 to make http://www.solafcars.com (w…

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    Comment #782495

    Why not take it a little bit further and try to break the current world record, which is set at 135 flights ;) http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_New-record-for-th... But I…

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    Comment #775868

    Well, try it out. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site:y...

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    Comment #483278

    Thanks for the advice. Would you consider 'yunar' to be a spell-able name? The name sure looks pretty, it's pronouncable, but something tells me it's hard to spell and hard to reme…

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    Comment #468804

    Is this for students only or professionals too? Can you elaborate in detail ? It looks like a nice idea unless somebody pulls your leg. Be careful and good luck with the project.

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    Comment #439601

    I recently switched from a black & white scheme to a colored scheme. As of now I'm enjoying a black-greyish background with some nifty colors. IMO, colored code makes the process m…