Fun with none

By : rohit

(If you are in a hurry, here is the fun part.;) A few days ago, I was working with a nullable field, which wasn't behaving as I expected. So I started a shell, and see how nulls compare.

In [1]: None
In [2]: None > 10
Out[2]: False
In [3]: None < 10
Out[3]: True
In [4]: None == None
Out[4]: True

Funny, not as I expected. (Why is None < 10 True. I thought it would be either False or None or cause an Error?) So python is obviously broken, next steps, see the same thing in some other ...

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An idea a day - A geographical wiki

By : Shabda Raaj

This is an article in the Five Startup Ideas series at the 42topics blog. In his essay, Ideas for Startups, Paul Graham argues that ideas are not a critical factor for success of startups. Although I do not believe that ideas are worthless, as many people do, I believe that they are not any where near as important as execution. So to prove my point, I am giving away 5 startup ideas in next five days. All of them describe a problem, its solution, the technology involved, the competition and market size. If you are not a hacker, and want ...

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An idea a day - Alternative to GAE

By : Shabda Raaj

This is an article in the Five Startup Ideas series at the 42topics blog. In his essay, Ideas for Startups, Paul Graham argues that ideas are not a critical factor for success of startups. Although I do not believe that ideas are worthless, as many people do, I believe that they are not any where near as important as execution. So to prove my point, I am giving away 5 startup ideas in next five days. All of them describe a problem, its solution, the technology involved, the competition and market size. If you are not a hacker, and want ...

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An idea a day - Remotely hosted Analytics solution

By : Shabda Raaj

This is an article in the Five Startup Ideas series at the 42topics blog. In his essay, Ideas for Startups, Paul Graham argues that ideas are not a critical factor for success of startups. Although I do not believe that ideas are worthless, as many people do, I believe that they are not any where near as important as execution. So to prove my point, I am giving away 5 startup ideas in next five days. All of them describe a problem, its solution, the technology involved, the competition and market size. If you are not a hacker, and want ...

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An idea a day - Recomendation system based ad network

By : Shabda Raaj

This is an article in the Five Startup Ideas series at the 42topics blog. In his essay, Ideas for Startups, Paul Graham argues that ideas are not a critical factor for success of startups. Although I do not believe that ideas are worthless, as many people do, I believe that they are not any where near as important as execution. So to prove my point, I am giving away 5 startup ideas in next five days. All of them describe a problem, its solution, the technology involved, the competition and market size. If you are not a hacker, and want ...

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An idea a day - An automated Adwords optimizer

By : Shabda Raaj

This is an article in the Five Startup Ideas series at the 42topics blog. In his essay, Ideas for Startups, Paul Graham argues that ideas are not a critical factor for success of startups. Although I do not believe that ideas are worthless, as many people do, I believe that they are not any where near as important as execution. So to prove my point, I am giving away 5 startup ideas in next five days. All of them describe a problem, its solution, the technology involved, the competition and market size. If you are not a hacker, and want ...

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