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I'm quite sure you would have an enthusiastic and receptive audience, please email me if you decide to post it. zackster@gmail.com

How and why did Twitter choose to acquire your company?

> Block his number if necessary

Not as easy as it sounds, I tried to block a number recently and found it very difficult (AT&T). How would you do it?

Great Talk

Acid test: can I go out and personally retrieve 30 customers @ $49.95/month?

Hm...Do adwords campaigns count? I would love to hear more about this.

Just got 108 (due to the stress of competition) but when I had to type the CAPTCHA I scored 133 because I wasn't worried about opponents. Edit: certified 155! woot. I need a new hobby.

the first thing they teach you in speedreading is that sounding words aloud is actually holding you back, you can actually parse the words faster than you can pronounce them. plus you can parse groups of words...

We are at the precipitous. This changes everything.

Feels epic. We're here.

"...and you will have still better returns doing actual networking rather than hoping someone on the Internet will stumble across your hidden potential and give you a shot."

This is such a retarded market inefficiency. Someone here should do something about it.

Open programming contests for job seekers? Open Source awards for job seekers?

I don't know enough about how the hiring process works, de facto.

you're trolling, but this is a good time to quote cory doctorow:

"everything is derivative."

I have not updated my blog ZacharyBurt.com this month but it has already generated $8.84 in commissions from Amazon affiliate links. It generated $1.96 in its first month of operation, when it drew 1,035 pageviews.

do you not fear P/E contraction?

Your rhetoric is hilarious and I really wish we could duo this routine in bars.

I suggest the "causative agency" is the voice that says "I am supposed to be getting all the attention. Why is he? He didn't even do anything amazing!"

or he's a shill for the "very rich" (lol) VCs at ycombinator trying to optimize for homeruns rather than community feel-good 20mm exits

> He's got a good, non-emotional speaking voice

Can you please elaborate on what you mean by this?

What makes it good? What makes it non-emotional? What is an example of a bad voice? What is an example of an emotional voice?

Yes that's exactly what's going on. He's attempting to externalize his guilt/shame to create a socially acceptable situation for criticism-- to validate his internal negativity and hate.

All I know about Diogenes is that he lived in a trash can and told Alexander to move because he was blocking the sun. What's this story you're referring to?

hitting the buttons programs your physical procedural memory which is different from declarative memory

HN has great SEO you don't necessarily want this thread to appear as one of the first results...

the lemons of this string when you take out all of the spaces and align the words end to end and prefix it with the word win

in 2007 i was working on "paintbrush.es" which was basically this. (i was too cheap to spring for "dra.ws" which costs $1k and may still be available). i thought that by enabling people to do derivative drawing that it would totally revolutionize art, kill deviantart, etc. super creativity! ultimately it was a total failure and all i got were a bunch of penis drawings. i mean art is primal but i wasn't expecting the venus of willendorf

this is the recommendation i was looking for, thanks boris!

zipcar is filing for IPO?

> I would think most of them are not exactly scouring Quora for hot startups

wrong keith rabois

Haha I came here to post Cute story, bro.

a great suggestion and one that i should seriously consider; however my undergraduate major was psychology and i basically minored in math, and other than core biology and cancer i didn't take any bio courses. so i'm not sure of the best way to pursue an advanced biology degree. any hints?

edit: possibly i could take get involved through bizdev/marketing?

It is one of my dreams to be involved with cancer, perhaps a medical device startup. One of my college professors (biology of cancer) urged me to go to med school but cancer specifically has always been very attractive to me. If I wanted to get involved with a biotech/med device startup where would I go about looking?

i was offered a role on Shark Tank season 2. turned it down.

they wanted something retarded like 3% of my company or 5% of annual profits.

Steve Ballmer's argument against Iphone = not a business phone

Nokia makes business phones

he was just trying to be funny. then because you NATURALLY assumed that you were smarter than him you decided to educate him!

finally, i think it is not possible to make a very good argument that nokia was not a direct competitor of microsoft.

peace

this is the worst comment for so many reasons