sumeeta

meh, discord hasn't done anything interesting in years. i'm mostly on Sup these days https://sup.net/i/rgc-fnqc43h

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 :)

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.

How does this work?

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.

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.

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.

The author misspelled MacBook :(

Ha. Scalien is a great name.

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

I’ve heard that as soon as you start paying for quota, the datastore gets way snappier. I can’t confirm this though.

You spelled GitHub wrong.

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.

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?

What is that idea? I read it again and I’m still missing the moral of the story.

I really wonder what “high-quality Web pages” are. `What is Hacker News?` doesn’t give any results either.

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.

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.

In the beginning, you mention that you use bash as your terminal. You might want to correct that.

Now that was idiotic.

The page also has a color scheme changer on the right.

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.

Do the eggs have to be in there for it to stand up?

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.

His story reminds me of the Bhagavad Gita, which talks a lot about motivation.

I’ve heard of people using a shared Gmail account for support tickets and handling ownership with labels.

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.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_logo

There’s also Scaling your Python application on EC2 from PyCon 2010: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3257303/