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> Dropbox’s founder and MIT Alum, Drew Houston, tried to lessen our emotional damage by creating a “United States Leaderboard” where we still held the #1 positi
by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Dropbox’s founder and MIT Alum, Drew Houston, tried to lessen our emotional damage by creating a “United States Leaderboard” where we still held the #1 position
It's pretty funny how butthurt the MIT people are that the Singaporeans and Taiwanese managed to beat them. If you look at the leaderboard[0], Houston even put the "United States Leaderboard" above the "Global Leaderboard" so that people would think that MIT was in first place.
0: https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace
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- josh_blum 14y agoIts hard to compete with a school who has about the same number of undergrads as MIT does people (undergrads, grads, and faculty) Enrollment statistics of National University of Singapore http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/statistics.html http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/statistics.html or of National University of Taiwan http://www.ntu.edu.tw/engv4/about/about.html http://www.ntu.edu.tw/engv4/about/about.html
- underwater 14y agoSo? MIT itself is larger than many other universities. Those universities may think that MIT has an unfair advantage.
- mayneack 14y agoLuckily, they made the point target for MIT >> population, so it's irrelevant.
- jabbernotty 14y agoActually, which leaderboard is shown on top depends on your (connection's) location.
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- mikle 14y agoI'm going to guess you are from the US. For me in Israel, Israel's board was the top one.
- swastik 14y agoYep, definitely based on location. For me, it shows the India leaderboard first.