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In case people aren't paying attention, this is well-respected news.yc-er cperciva's big project. Looking pretty good, Colin! edited for clarity
by aston 18y ago
In case people aren't paying attention, this is well-respected news.yc-er cperciva's big project. Looking pretty good, Colin!
edited for clarity
- cperciva 18y agoI'm well-respected now? When did that happen?
- aston 18y agoWell, you're above me... http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- abstractbill 18y agoWhen did that happen? 481 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
- sanj 18y agoI simultaneously feel proud and shamed for making that happen! No hard feelings, I hope.
- cperciva 18y agoNo hard feelings. :-) More than anything else, I'm amused that people here care so much about the Putnam -- I personally consider winning the Putnam to be a relatively minor accomplishment.
- lacker 18y agoIt's a good signal since it is hard to exaggerate (like you can with claims like "I was the first person to X" for vague X) and very simple to describe. Although maybe I am biased ;-)
- dfranke 18y agoThose of us who pride ourselves at merely having gotten a non-zero score on the Putnam think otherwise :-)
- MaysonL 18y agoAnd here I thought my scoring on it the three times I took it was an accomplishment (like you my first score was probably my best, as it was my freshman year, and my high school didn't offer calculus - I studied it on my own).
- cperciva 18y agowell-respected yc-er cperciva I saw the "well-respected" part before, but didn't notice the "yc-er" part. To avoid any confusion: I'm not funded by YC, I just happen to have been on news.yc for a long time.