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Re:Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012) on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:14PM (#4055139)
I got hired for a summer internship off of hackernews. The total time from my response to a job offer was about two weeks. We're serious and we have some very intriguing problems to solve related to how to scale existing systems with custom database backends (Not just mongo or mysql or riak) to higher levels of performance.
Re:Heroku is down on Saturday February 25, 2012 @03:40PM (#3633799)
It is. Heroku.com is down.
Re:Efficient String Concatenation in Python on Sunday December 18, 2011 @02:50PM (#3367327)
return ''.join(`num` for num in xrange(loop_count))

is better than

return ''.join([`num` for num in xrange(loop_count)])