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tzz··on What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?

  Interviewer#3: How long you been driving your 2010 Escort?
  Applicant:     About 3 years.
  Interviewer#3: Sorry, but we are looking for someone with 
                 experience of driving 2010 Escort for at 
                 least 10 years.
tzz··on Sending Images via SMS with Filepicker and Twilio
Is it possible to use Twilio SMS API to receive MMS message? Am I be able to receive SMS in backend and decode the data to get the link to the image?
tzz··on Sending Images via SMS with Filepicker and Twilio
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not.

What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.

tzz··on Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup
If it is helps, all in single page: http://all.fuseurl.com/eeo
tzz··on Morgan Stanley bought 63M Facebook shares ($2.3B) to create a floor around $38
Market Place has more info about Morgan Stanley, the underwriter, supporting the Facebook stock: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/weekly-wrap-what-...
tzz··on Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Backs Mobile Wallet Startup CrowdMob
The new site looks much better.
tzz··on Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Backs Mobile Wallet Startup CrowdMob
Your site doesn't really say what you do. What do you do exactly? Also, could allow a way for people to control the auto scrolling on your site.

[edit] Also can you tone it down when you describe yourself as "we are elite". It can be mistaken for arrogance by your users:

   Even though our business is growing at an amazing pace, we  
   are hiring slowly. We are an elite, close-knit group of 
   people
tzz··on Cadillac To Release Self-Driving Cars By 2015
Who really believe Cadillac will release such car in 3 years? This news is missing the following statement:

   This release contains "forward-looking-statements". 
   Forward-looking statements can generally be identified 
   by words such as "believe," "appears," "may," "could," 
   "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," 
   "should," "plan," "expect," and other words and terms of 
   similar meaning in connection with any discussion of    
   projections, future performance or expectations, beliefs, 
   plans or objectives for future operations (including 
   statements of assumption underlying or relating to any of 
   the foregoing). Actual results may differ materially from 
   those reflected in these forward-looking statements
tzz··on Ask pg: I know the HN algo is secret, but can you explain something to me?
Maybe the algorithm detected a voting ring. Did you ask your friends to vote up the link?
tzz··on FB’s Amended S-1: 500M Mobile Users, Paid $300M Cash + 23M Shares For Instagram
I am just trying to understand how this works, where did the 23M shares come from? Did they have to allocate a new share, from reserved share or from some where else?
tzz··on How Andreessen Horowitz Fumbled An Instagram Investment
Why didn't he just invest in both?
tzz··on Ask HN:Generate celebrity photos and videos from Twitter feed
Clickable: 1. http://celob.com 2. http://celob.com/post/21209053946/tupac-hologram-video-signi...
tzz··on Ashton Kutcher invests in Dwolla
I am still not sure how Dwolla works. Do I have to deposit money in my account to pay? Does it get the money from my bank account? How do they achieve low transaction fees? Why don't they explain this on their website? All it says is:

   New technologies are putting our lives, our communities,
   and our world at the tips of our fingers. At Dwolla, 
   we're using those same ideas to build a new payment 
   experience that's powered by you.
The above statement doesn't communicate anything other than it is a payment service. Well, there are a lot of payment services. What is unique about Dwolla?
tzz··on Facebook acquires Instagram
One good thing about being bought by bigger player is that it creates a void for other smaller innovative startups. Instagram is easier to compete against now than when it was independent.
tzz··on Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the world
Sometimes thinking this much about why not to do something keeps you away accomplishing things in life. I am sure when Amazon started in 1994, if they had to worry about all the problems associating with selling things online, they wouldn't start. If Google had to worry about how to make money from a search engine in beginning, they wouldn't be here. Assume that problem you going to face in future will have solutions and just start your idea.
tzz··on Gumroad is a year old, today.
I am more interested to know how you got all those investors to invest on your service. Did they contact you after your launch on HN or do you have to reach out for them yourself? How difficult was to convince them to invest?
tzz··on Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20
How does Google able to do this really fast? I mean even faster than a graphic calculator?
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