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Story time When I go on vacation with a fellow Python developer, inevitably I will talk about Python. 😁 Back in September, Andrea and I drove the Cabot Trail with our friends Dusty and Jen, which led to a discussion about the match statement and how Dusty and I both wished
Laurie Van Dyke blazed a trail for women in Milwaukee journalism Neither the intransigence of men nor a barbed wire fence could stop Laurie Van Dyke from going after a story. In a time when women were often denied news reporting jobs or were confined to society beats, Laurie Van Dyke became a respected Milwaukee newsroom leader. "Laurie led the way," her former Milwaukee Sentinel colleague Marta Bender said in an email message. "In the past, women were a newsroom minority and an editing and management rarity. When Laurie filled those jobs, she set an example for the rest of us. Her w...
Java for Everything June 1, 2014 I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I didn’t like. If the interviewee gave an answer at all, it was, “I’m most familiar with language X,” which didn’t answer my question either. At the time I would myself have replied something like, “I like Python best because it makes me happy to pro...