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sumzupon Pattern matching accepted for Python

  greet = lambda x: f"hello {x}"

sumzupon Pattern matching accepted for Python

  greet = lambda x: f"hello {x}"

sumzupon My Family’s Slave

It doesn't seem particularly damning (relative to the Atlantic article). It's pretty much what you'd expect out of someone who was hiding the truth.

sumzupon Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months

Twitter's able to monetize; it's just not able to sustain user growth.

sumzupon Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?

What are some of your favorite workflows?

sumzupon Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

You can't write production Python and be unfamiliar with list comprehensions. They're a fundamental part of the language.

sumzupon Amazon’s Interview Questions And Why I Don’t Work At Amazon

I've heard this is a relatively new phenomenon at Amazon; it's great that they're moving in this direction.

sumzupon After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

>I don't spend anywhere CLOSE to $2000/mo on rent, and I live in a pretty nice place in the middle of SF.

More details, please? I've been trying to look for places recently and everything seems to be exorbitantly priced.

sumzupon Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired: Spain is in the wrong time zone

I unexpectedly stumbled upon Mercè this year, and it was a magical experience (I even have a burn from the correfoc to show for it). Barcelona was definitely my favorite of the several European cities I visited during a trip across Europe this past month.

sumzupon Is Connectivity A Human Right?

I'm kind of surprised at the amount of hostility in this thread. Sure, Internet access isn't on the same level of need as food or water or shelter or medical care, but it's still one of the most empowering things in our society. There are many different levels of and aspects to aid; it's not a negative if an organization decides to focus its efforts in an area it knows best.

sumzupon How sexist can a web developer job ad get?

http://i.imgur.com/tozggoZ.png

sumzupon Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir

>Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python.

I'm curious; can you give any examples?

sumzupon “NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

According to Snowden it was co-written by Israel and the US.

sumzupon The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users

The link doesn't seem to work (error: "Unable to connect to database server"); do you have an alternate link?

sumzupon What happened to innovation?

What did you end up going with?

sumzupon Java Puzzle: Square Root

That won't work. The point here is that you don't have the number available.

sumzupon Show HN: Facebook Unlike

It's pretty easy to do with Graph Search, for what it's worth (yes, I realize most people don't have it yet). Just search for "Pages I have liked".

sumzupon An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself

It sounds like the language I used to end essays with when I wasn't sure how to write an appropriate conclusion. In other words, mostly BS.