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sumeeta

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sumeeta··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
meh, discord hasn't done anything interesting in years. i'm mostly on Sup these days https://sup.net/i/rgc-fnqc43h
sumeeta··on Reducing Code Nesting
FooIsBar doesn't need to be a subclass of X, does it? The polymorphism comes from the interface (implements `quux`), so inheritance doesn't seem relevant.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Still trying to learn the difference between inheritance and "evil" inheritance :)

sumeeta··on The Rest of the Story (Yammer & Scala)
So it means you're used to following through on your curiosity, and capable of fast growth? That's at least what I'm getting out of it right now.
sumeeta··on What is your favorite command-line trick using Bash?
How does this work?
sumeeta··on How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Revision was always emphasized to me, but I never understood why. I always thought I was above it. After I became a programmer and had to look at old code I’d written, I finally understood why revision is so important.

Couldn’t my teachers have told me that revision is so important because we’re not qualified to evaluate our creations until they’re no longer fresh in our heads? It’s not an obvious concept, and I wish others didn’t have to learn it the hard way.

sumeeta··on New MacBook Airs ridden with bugs
This isn’t as big of a deal as the headline makes it out to be. The article describes a video playback issue that Apple’s already released a software fix for.
sumeeta··on mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob doesn’t contain any Cython. The author was just stating it was a challenge getting Yelp’s codebase (which contains some Cython) running on EMR.
sumeeta··on Apple's attention to detail
The author misspelled MacBook :(
sumeeta··on Keyspace - a distributed key value store
Ha. Scalien is a great name.

How does a startup that develops database software plan to make money? Selling support?

sumeeta··on App Engine SDK 1.3.5 - New Task Queue, Python Precompilation, and Blob Features
I’ve heard that as soon as you start paying for quota, the datastore gets way snappier. I can’t confirm this though.
sumeeta··on Ask HN: We've just launched our bug tracker, Purify - what do you think?
You spelled GitHub wrong.
sumeeta··on Iceland Wants to Be Your Friend
I saw an ad for this on Daring Fireball.

Whoever’s creating this is super hip. This is what bosses want when they say they want to leverage Facebook, Twitter and the Web. What I don’t think they get is how hard it is to actually be effective with it.

sumeeta··on Django Hidden Hires
Hiring for Django or hiring for Python? For a Python coder, a Django job sounds a bit drab. And a Django developer sounds like someone way less technical than someone who has a lot of experience writing Python code.

What’s the real difference between Django developer and Python developer?

sumeeta··on 'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'
What is that idea? I read it again and I’m still missing the moral of the story.
sumeeta··on Over 500,000,000 assertions extracted from 100 million Web pages
I really wonder what “high-quality Web pages” are. `What is Hacker News?` doesn’t give any results either.
sumeeta··on Twitter launches own shortener t.co
Realize we are all big time nerds with smartphones. Everyone else doesn't have one (yet?).

And when Twitter started out, even fewer of us had them.

sumeeta··on Caching COUNT with PHP and Redis
Doesn’t this seem too basic to have been voted up so much? That is, compared to the rest of the technical posts that are voted up.

And perhaps MemcacheDB (http://memcachedb.org/) is a better bet if you don’t need Redis’s list and set operations. But I don’t understand why the cache needs to be persistent.

sumeeta··on Handy Git commands that save my day
In the beginning, you mention that you use bash as your terminal. You might want to correct that.
sumeeta··on You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer
Now that was idiotic.
sumeeta··on BSD for Linux Users (2005)
The page also has a color scheme changer on the right.
sumeeta··on Hacker Monthly #1 is here
I ordered one because I can’t wait to find it lying around a couple of years from now. Seems like this could be awesome bookshelf material.
sumeeta··on Zero cost iPad dock
Do the eggs have to be in there for it to stand up?
sumeeta··on No Execute
I found this interesting near the end: http://emulators.com/docs/nx13_olpc.htm. The author wonders about A New Era For Personal Computing?

I think three years later, a lot of us are starting to see through to the other side. Funny that he mentioned the Newton, too.

sumeeta··on How (and when) to motivate yourself
His story reminds me of the Bhagavad Gita, which talks a lot about motivation.
sumeeta··on Ask HN: Keeping track of support requests/emails/tickets
I’ve heard of people using a shared Gmail account for support tickets and handling ownership with labels.
sumeeta··on Apple’s new record: the fastest product ramp to $1 billion
The Wired post (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apples-ipad-muted-res...) he linked to isn’t “pundits […] claiming that the iPad would fail.” It’s a summary of their readers’ responses to the iPad announcement.
sumeeta··on Google logos throughout the years
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_logo
sumeeta··on Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit
There’s also Scaling your Python application on EC2 from PyCon 2010: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3257303/
sumeeta··on Conan O'Brien at Google: The World Has Completely Changed
I was pretty impressed with how many female Googlers I saw in the audience.
sumeeta··on Hot zones
I don’t think Marco is really making a point here. He’s just sharing what he’s been thinking about. But I don’t think he is saying that a “hot” interface is neccessarily good or bad.
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