Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

I've decided on Windows -- Please help justify my choice

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After many words, the email chain I received netted out to this: I can't teach myself data science on my crappy old Windows machine. ...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Code Rewrites and How They Create Value -- Stop Fighting Against It

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TL;DR -- To remove doubts and questions, rewrite it. Many, many people are confronted with the request to maintain someone else's code...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The TLA Problem -- Over-Engineering Three-Letter Acronyms

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Here's something we can gleefully over-engineer. Because anything worth doing is worth over-engineering until it morphs into a different...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Ordered Keys in Dictionaries

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Raymond Hettinger ( @raymondh ) 12/15/17, 11:40 AM #python news: 😀 @gvanrossum just pronounced that dicts are now guaranteed to re...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Business of Book Promotions

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It is hard (for me) to promote my books. It seems like empty vanity. I realize that it's not -- promotion is essential -- but it's d...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Functional Requirements and Use Cases -- even for "simple" things

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In the mailbag I found this nonsense, doomed to inevitable failure: "As I get more serious about this data science stuff, it has beco...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

DC API User Group - December Edition

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https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/events/245014240/ Nice bunch of people. Nice f...