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Both the article and https://www.titanvest.com/performance/ cite performance relative to S&P 500. If you expand out disclosures it says "Figures cited for 2017 and since 2004 repre…

I think you and the article disagree about what "deep, meaningful human connection" means. I don't want to quibble about definitions so I'll just share my experience with circling …

I've worked with old programmers who are great and old programmers who suck. Most of the points in the article are obviously wrong. "Anyone who is still a programmer in their 40s h…

I'm guessing no one posted it because there was a whole section in the original article on GiveWell.

There is already a different (more useful) algorithm called ternary search ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_search ).

Won the $100 :). It took me about 15 minutes start to finish. You have to do 3 practices then wait a bit before you can do the real thing. You are given about 10 lines of code and …

One note to make is that these tutorials are specifically designed for programming contests not for the real world. A lot of the stuff applies to both, but things like constant fac…

I don't understand why a company would choose to enforce a non compete in this situation. The main reason for having interns is to hire them once they graduate. I doubt Bob would c…

What level of class is it? If it is an introductory class just be happy that people are there. I know plenty of programmers (including myself) who only got interested in CS because…

I'm 13th on the TopCoder list (1st in US). I'm not sure that the list matters as much as you think. I can solve algorithms problems (those similar to what you see on TC) very quick…

When you say the guest picks a random dish, does he pick a random 3 letter code, or a random one of the 250 dishes? You want the probability that B2 happens given that B happened r…

Mind explaining what question 2 is actually asking? (Not the solution just the question)

When you make a Facebook ad you can either do cost per click or cost per impression. If they setup with cost per click then Facebook isn't wasting their money.