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by vecter 14y ago
Could anyone explain to me why there's such a dramatic change in the incidence of extra-solar high energy cosmic rays or the incidence of solar particles? Without reading this article, I would have guessed that those graphs should've tailed
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by vecter 14y ago
You're right, the reality is far more nuanced than what's presented here. Setting aside the current Color fiasco, Bill Nguyen is a highly accomplished entrepreneur with close to $1B worth of startup exits in his past [1][2]. To say that h
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Kamcord (YC S12) is looking for our first hire. Play games, laugh, code.
1 points by vecter 14y ago
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by vecter 14y ago
(1) You get $150,000 from Start Fund. (2) As founders, you should NOT be paying yourselves real salary until you raise significant money. Even then, you should be paying yourselves on the order of $50-60K/year, modulo a few edge cases if yo
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by vecter 14y ago
We use the same technology that Apple uses in its native camera app to write video. That experience is pretty seamless and has been optimized by Apple to not impact performance. We can record gameplay at 30 FPS while leaving the actual fram
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by vecter 14y ago
Right now Kamcord is live in these games: http://kamcord.com/games/ and we're excited about some great ones we have in the pipeline.
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Kamcord (YC S12) Helps Record And Share Those Epic Mobile Gaming Moments(techcrunch.com)
43 points by vecter 14y ago|12 comments
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by vecter 14y ago
In August of 2008, I was a senior in college and went to our school's engineering recruiting barbecue. There were a lot of finance firms, including Lehman Brothers in all their glory. I remember walking to the booth to ask if they were recr
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by vecter 14y ago
That's not a very realistic model of communication. If A communicates to B with 99% accuracy in the text, it's likely that B will 100% understand what's going. He will reply back to A with a 100% accurate message that's 99% accurate after t
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by vecter 14y ago
It seems that you're saying "Startup X shouldn't compete with market owners Y because companies Y own the market", which is pretty ludicrous.
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by vecter 14y ago
Here's a Charlie Rose interview with Sebastian Thrun: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12321 It struck me how the overwhelmingly positive response to his online Stanford class took him by surprise and really spurred him to want t
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by vecter 14y ago
IANAP but if universes could be born from black holes, would they also disappear if the black hole were to evaporate via Hawking radiation?
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by vecter 14y ago
Recommended reading: Paxos Made Simple by Leslie Lamport ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p... ) Abstract The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple. Compare that to the or
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by vecter 14y ago
That's the most egregious straw man I've seen in a while. Even so, are you saying the ends justify the means?
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by vecter 14y ago
ChessNetwork on YouTube has the most clear and concise explanations of what's going on. They're incredibly easy to follow even for patzers like myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh9KTUiimzE ChessVibes has good summaries of the event
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by vecter 14y ago
A dollar is not a dollar is not a dollar. It matters to me how I make my money. Getting lucky by winning the employee lottery at a hot startup is much less meaningful to me than making a large (but lesser) sum through a startup. If all you
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by vecter 14y ago
I agree that once you obtain an intuitive understanding of any topic, what once seemed incomprehensible is suddenly completely trivial. It's just getting to that stage that requires a lot of work. I studied computer science also and spent a
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by vecter 14y ago
I definitely agree. On the other hand, I do think that someone who has walked through the fire and pounded their head against hard concepts for 4 years legitimately comes out smarter in some dimensions.
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by vecter 14y ago
If your subjects were that easy, it sounds like you weren't challenging yourself enough. Quantitative degrees like math or physics weed out a lot of people who simply can't complete the material. For most soft subjects, I agree that it's on
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by vecter 14y ago
A lot of commenters here have made great points and I share their sentiments. Instead of repeating their good advice ad nauseam, I'd just like to add what I think is an important point: this is business, not personal . It's pretty clear th
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by vecter 14y ago
Are you alluding to Scott Aaronson's essay on Who Can Name the Bigger Number? [1] [1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
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by vecter 15y ago
Kickstarter's purpose, like any other company's purpose, is to serve a market. The market responded by showing large demand for these kind of projects that are being funded. If these are the kind of projects that people crave, how is that K
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The Most Astounding Fact(youtube.com)
2 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
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by vecter 15y ago
Better still, how about instead coming with reasons why they would of course want to talk to you, because you're building things that will solve identifiable problems for them? Bingo.
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by vecter 15y ago
I didn't say I thought it was a good approach. I was just clarifying the GP's misunderstanding.
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by vecter 15y ago
Their offer is specifically for problems that YC itself faces. Give us a problem, a painpoint, anything that annoys you in day to day life, and we’ll hack it in 72 hours. Sending a phone to Mars and back isn't one of them, and is missing
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by vecter 15y ago
Whoa this look great! I haven't had a chance to dig through, but is it possible to capture the audio that's being played? I'm thinking of recording gameplay audio. Thanks!
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by vecter 15y ago
I would strongly urge the OP to not use this book. I used it as my undergrad algorithms book and it is, quite frankly, far too obtuse and hard to understand. At first, I thought it was just me and that other people found the book readable
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by vecter 15y ago
When I first clicked this article, I thought it was going to be linkbait. I was surprised to find that he concisely and accurately expressed what I'd been unable to for the past few years: that non-technical founders shouldn't look for "pro
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by vecter 15y ago
They can become the file system for the internet. If they're successful, many futures apps (mobile or desktop) will sit on top of Dropbox software to sync files and app state for their users. That is an incredibly powerful vision.

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