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Sumit Chachra

Sumit Chachra

I am a 27 year old geek living in San Francisco
Pay It Forward - Give and you shall receive http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_nex... A personal example that proves it works (via @dondodge)
Facebook Updates Promo/Sweepstakes Guidelines – What It Means for Marketers - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009...
The American Dream is Not Dead - http://blog.jyzhang.net/2009...
Philz coffee in SOMA needs more seating space!
Rents in sf down 10-15% despite what anyone might tell you.
Software Team Lead/Architect at EmSense Corporation (San Francisco, CA 94107) - http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default...
Kim Munley @hope2forget30 took down Ft. Hood shooter. She has 3k followers now, but just 3 tweets :-)
Google promoting droid on homepage. WOW! http://img.skitch.com/2009110...
13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Lol -- "You haven't seen someone's true colors unless you've worked with them on a startup" -- http://www.paulgraham.com/really...
"What people wished they'd paid more attention to when choosing cofounders was character and commitment, not ability": Sumit, that's it, you are ruled out as a co-founder! - Nagender Parimi
haha... thanks! - Sumit Chachra
Fundrazr: PayPal's Adaptive Account and Payment APIs Realized - http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwri...
Cheap, Printed Solar-Powered LEDs Could Change 1.5 Billion Lives [Solar Power] - http://gizmodo.com/5396403...
New Yorker on USS New York - New York Post - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
New Yorker on USS New York - New York Post
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Two New Ways To Find A Better Place To Stay On The Road - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Gavin Newsom drops out of California governor's race http://www.latimes.com/news...
Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
The problem with VC motivation - http://venturehacks.com/article...
ScanScout lands $8.5M second round from Singapore firm - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
D-Day For Facebook App Developers - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Capstone projects and time management - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...
I disagree. I had asked myself the same question that Mr. Spolsky asks. And then I realized my answer to it: because learning all of (bug tracking, working on teams, scheduling, estimating, debugging, usability testing, and documentation) is not hard! Really, real world software is about engineering, not the science of software. You can and should pick engineering practices through... more... - Nagender Parimi
I agree. I think he himself is flip-flopping iirc - Sumit Chachra from IM
I agree with you Nagi. It's all about the algorithms and cutting code. A good computer science education should be a mixture of theory and practice, but should be about computers, algorithms, mathematics, logic and human computer interactions. Of course any degree should come from a mixture of disciplines and so students should be exposed to other departments like molecular biology,... more... - Richard
Facebook's Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity - http://highscalability.com/blog...
Road to Recovery: Yo, We’re Good - http://paul.kedrosky.com/archive...
Cafe Murano (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
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"I've been here a few times before. Had no idea it opens up at 6am. Came in after my jog/gym today and ordered the best Oatmeal I have had in a while and a cappuccino. George was great to talk to. The…" - Sumit Chachra
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