@_navin

CTO at http://t.co/brmhM1ZM, Founder of http://t.co/bFq8Avqq, PhD in Computer Science, and a jack of all trades

 Pune, India
punetech.com/navin
Joined September 2009
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Navin Kabra (Talk)@ngkx23 Jan 2013
Please follow @ngkabra instead of this account. I will not tweet from here anymore.
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh21 Jan 2013
#python tip: To generate pyc and pyo files for the py files in a directory, run: python -m compileall *py and python -Om compileall *py
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh20 Jan 2013
#python tip: When creating a zip file for use with zip imports, be sure to add .pyc and .pyo in addition to the .py files.
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Amit Paranjape
@aparanjape14 Jan 2013
A touch screen tablet, that also has 'lumpy' contact keyboard? Now..that's best of both worlds! bbc.in/XmvUEe via @ngkx #CES2013

The tablet that turns itself lumpy

Micah Yairi from Tactus shows off their technology which makes a flat tablet screen morph into a keyboard with real, lumpy buttons, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

bbc.co.uk
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Dhananjay Nene@dnene3 Jan 2013
Python: the Dictionary Playbook blog.amir.rachum.com/post/39… good stuff for beginners.
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Dhananjay Nene@dnene2 Jan 2013
In 2013 use print function rather than the print statement. #python. Available since 2009, stop this stone age coding. docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew…
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pigshell@pigshell18 Dec 2012
Mayan time_t overflows on Saturday... I *told* 'em to use long long, but they were like, 32 beads should be enough for anybody.
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh15 Jan 2012
#emacs tip: M-z (zap-to-char) is a fast and flexible way to kill text. Combined with C--, it can kill text in a backwards direction.
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Nishith Shah@nishdshah11 Jan 2012
Hazards of creating a very slick pre-product demo (1): People think the product is done. Get shocked to hear actual release date.
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh27 Dec 2011
The time has come to start formatting your log entries in JSON: journal.paul.querna.org/arti…
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Dhananjay Nene@dnene19 Dec 2011
The early stages of Pycon India 2012 have just started off mail.python.org/pipermail/in… #PyconIndia (Mailing list: mail.python.org/mailman/list…)
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Neeran Karnik@neeran16 Dec 2011
LOL RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: 2012 is year of private cloud, Linux desktop and establish which of emacs and vi is better.
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Dhananjay Nene@dnene14 Dec 2011
Coding python/groovy, I think, what a complete pain in the ass type checking compilers are & how much they intrude on getting shit done.
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh12 Dec 2011
#python tip: Go ahead and fall in love with the with-statement, but don't forget that sometimes a simple try/finally is a better solution.
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Stefan Tilkov@stilkov7 Dec 2011
“There are no published cases of NoSQL databases operating at the scale of Facebook’s MySQL database” gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-sh…
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Dhananjay Nene@dnene6 Dec 2011
Did a good deed today. Advised someone to remove django based db code in favour of dbapi for bulk ops (x * 100000). Perf went up 20 fold.
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Neeran Karnik@neeran6 Dec 2011
Wow, "in-air" signatures using a mobile phone with accelerometer, for authentication : is.gd/jchgkC
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh2 Dec 2011
#python news: Django is getting close to running on Python 3.2 :-) groups.google.com/forum/#!to…
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Ravindra @jaju30 Nov 2011
Pretty thought provoking. RT @chrishouser: Yammer moving off of Scala. Several points all JVM langs should consider: bit.ly/uXEK0g
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Raymond Hettinger
@raymondh24 Nov 2011
Nice #python one-liner: def sumdigits(n): return sum(map(int, str(n)))
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