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by quilby 14y ago
These questions are way too basic- the first 4 can be answered directly from the definition of each term, and there is no thinking involved. The 5th question can be answered with knowledge from 1 lesson in graph theory.
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An Interview With Twitter's Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass(businessinsider.com)
4 points by quilby 15y ago|0 comments
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Leaving in a Huff(ericdsnider.com)
189 points by quilby 15y ago|33 comments
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"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"(reddit.com)
270 points by quilby 16y ago|152 comments
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The Agonizing Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller(gizmodo.com)
11 points by quilby 16y ago|1 comments
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Is poker a game of chance or skill?(math.tau.ac.il)
12 points by quilby 16y ago|41 comments
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New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users' Ears(youtube.com)
1 points by quilby 16y ago|0 comments
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The story of a Russian spy for the CIA during the Cold War(cia.gov)
1 points by quilby 16y ago|0 comments
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by quilby 16y ago
http://freddy1990.com/scar.php - Is a similar tool for Windows. It was originally built, and is wildly used today, to cheat on an online RPG called http://runescape.com/ (it does the boring, repetitive tasks of the game for you while yo
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Faking Human Input While Interfacing with X11 Applications(pratyeka.org)
7 points by quilby 16y ago|1 comments
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Peter Norvig answers reddit's questions (Ask Me Anything video interview)(reddit.com)
23 points by quilby 17y ago|2 comments
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by quilby 17y ago
The NLP engine isnt god though: http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/was_jfk_killed_before_barack_...
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True Knowledge (AI question-answering platform) launches public beta(trueknowledge.com)
1 points by quilby 17y ago|1 comments
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Dubai murder suspects climb to 26(cnn.com)
1 points by quilby 17y ago|1 comments
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by quilby 17y ago
This is wrong. There are many 'cracked' (no-steam) servers for all valve games ( http://css.setti.info/ ) and even though Ive played many hours on these servers (CSS and TF2) I have seen only 2 cheaters. Remember- you still have admins on
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by quilby 17y ago
Obtaining working free wallhacks/aimbots for most games is pretty easy. Right now I can only remember http://www.mpcforum.com/ . I "tested" one of their aimbots (on TF2) and not only did it work, but I also did not get banned.
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by quilby 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W6Qbob2mg#t=0m16s Really? Pagerank doesnt have anything to do with twitter and facebook. Its a great idea, and its probably one of the major factors that made google a success, but today it is not a very i
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by quilby 17y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azgs6/iama_guy_who_sol...
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by quilby 17y ago
If we assume that everything that the OP has said is true, I dont think that this is Joshua: 1. Joshua works at Google, OP says that he does not have a job. 2. It looks like Joshua isnt married.
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by quilby 17y ago
1. He said that it was sold between 1 year ago and 4 years ago. In addition, his company is still going. 2. He said that before taxes he had 30 million dollars, so the startup was sold for >=30 million dollars. 3. He is married and has
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I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.(reddit.com)
128 points by quilby 17y ago|85 comments
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by quilby 17y ago
In Israel, because there is a fear from terrorists, before you go into any shop, restaurant, mall, or university, your bag is searched (for ~30 seconds) and sometimes a metal detector is used (a hand-held one). I know nothing about Apple HQ
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by quilby 17y ago
Where does the info for the landmark recognition feature come from? Is it from street view? I dont see how the landmark recognition feature could be useful. If you have a camera + 3g on your phone, you have a GPS.
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by quilby 17y ago
Ive talked with one of the guys from face.com . They have put a lot of effort into making their system very fast and scalable. He told me that they built it from scratch and did not use OpenCV. Some parts were even written in assembly. Im p
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by quilby 17y ago
A few days ago I sent a message to the FB developer that wrote the blog post about Haystack. He told me that they are working on getting it open sourced and that it will be ready 'soon'.
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by quilby 17y ago
Does anyone know of payment gateways that work with merchants outside the U.S.? We are based in Israel and are going to launch a subscription based web app soon. Right now it looks like the only option is to use Google checkout/ Paypal (the
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by quilby 17y ago
I agree with this comment from http://styleguidance.com/the-life-and-death-of-crunchpad : " Is the CrunchPad really dead? Honestly? I'd put my money on no. Arrington is way too "powerful", and did too much, to just roll over for a few bad
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by quilby 17y ago
Right, but while he still had money in Seesmic, there was a huge Seesmic widget on every page on TechCrunch.
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by quilby 17y ago
Because Israel is a pretty young country most people living here are <= 2nd generation immigrants. I'm a 4th generation immigrant. 5 generations ago my family immigrated from Russia and created at least a couple of cities, which still
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by quilby 17y ago
Arrington writing about how great Arrington's blog is. We all know how successful Cuil is today after being mentioned on almost every major newspaper/magazine/blog in the world. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/cuil.com/

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