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Hi HN, We just released a public beta of e-commerce capabilities for AI agents — aimed at developers building shopping agents or personal assistants. It’s early and buggy, but we’d…

I had "vaccumed" all indices referencing those entities before issuing a delete. Albeit, there was only once index per purged entity type. So this would not explain the 20x write o…

I deleted all indices referencing those entities before starting the entity deletions.

I meant that I needed 3k requests to finish the job, deleting 1k entities in each request :).

I have been using GAE Python since it came out. Used it to build www.thesponty.com and www.gamedaytycoon.com (social game on FB). The latter has thousands of users and GAE scales s…

Yes

Yes. Happens when you enqueue a task with the same name as a previously enqueued task.

This is awesome! I shared it on Facebook, but your mugshot showed up in the preview rather than say a ShelfLuv logo. The latter would probably be more enticing for my friends to ch…

I've been using Remember The Milk as a GTD tool and I highly recommend it! Rather than moving your your tasks between notebooks, you move them between lists. The Gears/Chrome clien…

I would suggest Python. It is easy to learn and can be used in many different projects including web apps. You can then use your new skill and build web apps on Google App Engine. …

Remember The Milk ( http://www.rememberthemilk.com ) is a life saver. It's a task list that runs on your phone and browser. I can't recommend it enough.

I agree. I was uber social after spending a couple of days handing out schwag and chatting with random people at SXSW.

Have you heard of Boston based Sponty? http://www.thesponty.com Our original idea was exactly what you describe: organize casual events with friends. But that didn't gain traction.…

I would suggest starting with Google App Engine (the Python version). For the following reasons: 1. Python is a good language to learn. You can use it for other things beside build…

Hacking in Boston is usually up to date with software related entrepreneurial/hacking events: http://www.thesponty.com/profile/251336/Hacking_in_Boston/

Maybe he just burnt-out and wants to move on to something else?

Freshman year in college. Ten years ago. At a math class.

You can also grab the RSS feed here: http://www.thesponty.com/profile.rss/251336/Hacking_in_Bosto... We'll be updating this very regularly.

Hey! Thanks for posting your notes. You pretty much captures all the important ideas.

Oh oh. Seems to be down now.