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by vecter 15y ago
Is it just me or is the most incredible part that she survived the impact? I'd be curious to understand how she fell from that high and didn't die from the immediate impact or wounds sustained from that, such as broken limbs that would have
752.
by vecter 15y ago
That's right, but FIDE ratings are independent of the person who owns the title of "World Chess Champion". Vishy currently holds that title.
753.
by vecter 15y ago
Come again?
754.
by vecter 15y ago
Did you pick Phi Delta Toolbag on purpose, or was it a random name you drummed up? Curious b/c I'm a member of Phi Delta Theta.
755.
by vecter 15y ago
Loopt raised $32M in funding [1], so a $40M exit is roughly scratch. [1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/loopt
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by vecter 15y ago
I think there's an upper limit to the quality of entrepreneurial mentorship you can give, mostly as a function of (1) the mentors and (2) the mentor-entrepreneur ratio. Right now, YC invests in roughly $20k/company * 60 companies/batch *
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When gaming is good for you [WSJ](online.wsj.com)
3 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
758.
by vecter 15y ago
There's no flaw here at all. There are plenty of puzzles I have difficulty solving, but when someone shows me a solution, it's usually pretty obvious why it's correct and how it works.
759.
by vecter 15y ago
Because verifying an answer is easy, but creating it from scratch is hard. Analogous to this is intuition is that verifying a proof is simpler than coming up with the proof.
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by vecter 15y ago
I have a residual background in biochemistry from some high school science fair work, and what you described is absolutely amazing to hear! The fact that ATP is made by a "mechanical" force is pretty mind-blowing (although I suppose everyth
761.
by vecter 15y ago
I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but John Nash definitely did not invent TeX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX .
762.
by vecter 15y ago
It depends on what you're doing. If you're writing java/python/ruby plumbing, sure some practical experience is great. If you're job is to improve PageRank, I'd rather much take the person with a strong theoretical background linear algebra
763.
by vecter 15y ago
Surely merit does not include race?
764.
by vecter 15y ago
There's a qualitative difference here, which is that the emailed file will be permanently backed up and synced to all other computers which have your Dropbox installed. When you're on those other N computers, you don't have to go to your in
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A View of the US-Mexican Border(all-that-is-interesting.com)
1 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
766.
by vecter 15y ago
That's really generous of you, thanks for offering.
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Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills(nytimes.com)
18 points by vecter 15y ago|1 comments
768.
by vecter 15y ago
I think the heart of Google (at least at the get-go) was PageRank. Sure you had to write a web crawler, but that wasn't the magic sauce that made Google's search so good. I don't think most 14 year olds could understand the math behind Page
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Startup Rage Comics(startuprage.com)
11 points by vecter 15y ago|1 comments
770.
by vecter 15y ago
Their revenue comes from ads. They've never claimed otherwise, what makes you think they did?
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by vecter 15y ago
Me too, although my impression from one of the comments on TC implied that the client was going to fire you.
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Princeton Brews Trouble for Us 1 Percenters: Michael Lewis(bloomberg.com)
1 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
773.
by vecter 15y ago
Turning on antialiasing usually kills GPU performance. One GeForce GTX 580 can't really run Battlefield 3 at 1920x1080 with 8xAA at greater than 60fps stable, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say games can't keep up. The games are kee
774.
by vecter 15y ago
And they all run Windows with a stylus. No capacitive touch screen, no custom app-based OS. It's a qualitative difference.
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by vecter 15y ago
I'm all for being sincere in business. But with girls? Let's be real here ...
776.
by vecter 15y ago
I'm assuming they mean, of the actual bits that have ever been downloaded, where does it come from?
777.
by vecter 15y ago
You couldn't post this under your original name?
778.
by vecter 15y ago
If by poor taste you mean incredibly insensitive, mean, and asinine, then yeah.
779.
by vecter 15y ago
This happened when I joined Quora recently. I honestly felt embarrassed that I had "followed" 100+ at once, especially since I haven't been in touch with many of those people recently.
780.
by vecter 15y ago
It's interesting how simple their feature set is. I imagine the two EMAs and the percent_correct are probably the most important inputs. A few other interesting ones might be the percent correct for say the past 10 or 20 questions (instead

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