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Re:Review My Startup: GeoHello - location based chat on Friday January 14, 2011 @04:08AM (#2103018)
We tried it at work.

Firefox tells me my location is in Stockholm (proxy), and chrome shows the correct location, guess it is because of how they determine your location, just wanted to let you know.

Would be good if I could see the location of other users, if they enable it that is. Also maybe even allow users to change their current location so that they can follow other places.

Re:Poll: Where abouts are you hackers from? on Saturday August 28, 2010 @11:18AM (#1641814)
Sweden
So you mean that I can just apply for a generic green card. As far as I know you have to be eligible for some certain types of green cards. I have tryed with the lottery but no luck there.

I have browsed through the various ways to get a green card and as far as I can tell the only way I can get it is either through getting a job at some company in the US or winning the lottery.

Sorry for that. Don't know where those html-tags came from.

How did non US citizen founders funded by YC get allowed to work in the US?

Hi, first time posting here.I've been thinking about applying to YC but the thing is that I am not a US citizen. I know I can travel to the US to do busines (attending meetings and such) done so fo my current employer. But how about starting a company and writing code?I've read somewhere that YC has funded startups with non US citizen founders so it should be possible somehow. If there are any...

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