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Udacity's course Design of Computer Programs by Peter Norwig was the best intro to decorators I have seen.

right now, if I click on hacker news link in any page, it points to https://news.ycombinator.com/news, which gives a down time message

Is it an extension to San José International Airport, or exclusive airport for google? How does that work out? I am confused by "The companies would be granted a 50-year lease and …

I have registered for the test kit. I really appreciate the way amit and friends have set up the campaign. This gives maximum chance for him to survive and also helps other victims…

According to wikipedia, flipkart was funded by founders with Rs 4 lakh and broke even in 2008, I don't understand how it is loss making. It is certainly not worth $1 billion now, b…

Was it only in my browser the train was going faster on the inclines than on declines?

Sugar coating email invite is lame. There was a time when I almost always saw google doing awesome things. Now it doesn't look any different from other big companies like microsoft…

I would love to see someone compete with FB to prevent it from becoming a total monopoly. Having said that, it is really difficult to believe that google can do that, based on the …

Scheme, since it is so simple. Very easy to learn. No syntax, no comma, no semi-colon. I would have been delighted to learn scheme as my first language rather than c.

This post needs some content. It is indeed hard to find technical co-founders. But finding employees is not as hard as finding co-founders. Spending time on SO, hn and some mailing…

Things come and go in HN, but that cannot be a primary reason to quit HN itself. Today it is TSA, yesterday it was offer hn etc. I have gained more in knowledge than what I have lo…

Looks like HN effect. I am getting connection refused error.

Thanks for the nice reply. My first experience with GAE was not good, after that I have never looked at it. I took a look at webapp and tipfy, both look good. I will make some time…

I first learnt how system calls transition from user space to kernel space when I read this book. Till then I had not understood the mechanism, though I knew what software interrup…

Interesting read. One of the most important reason I use open source software as opposed to proprietary ones is the confidence that open source software will not try to do anything…

This is same question many of my veggie friends ask. I think no, it is not the same for humans. For other carnivores, it does not make any difference.

I simply can't understand why eating meat is wrong, when eating plant is not wrong. I feel they are same.

Agreed. We can some how manage to make our living on consulting and cutting expenses, but if you are still in day job, it will take up major part of your time and energy. Also, som…

Definitely worth a try. I am concerned about my discipline to come back to work after playing a game for 30 mins. May be playing TT would be better idea, since I feel playing physi…

Quotes from PG's Essays: If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. At least, you notice this pattern if you are a Lisp hacker.…

I was really sad to see India ranked so low. I remember my friend starting a company by paying Rs 6000 to broker, who took care of all the things. Things work differently in India,…

DHH is not exactly known for being politically correct.

This was there on HN 6 months back. More discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280304 .