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sumeeta

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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 :)

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.

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.

Django Hidden Hires 16 years ago

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?

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.

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.

No Execute 16 years ago

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.

Hot zones 16 years ago

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.