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Arrived in Sunnyvale, CA
I am on the ground at the Wild Palms hotel for Scifoo and about to walk to lunch with some folks I met in the lobby. Will post more later.
Highlight of flight was showing off my iPhone to my seat neighbor, a fellow who worked for the telephone company as an engineer before he retired 35 years ago. Also did some reading on Learning Python.
Highlight of flight was showing off my iPhone to my seat neighbor, a fellow who worked for the telephone company as an engineer before he retired 35 years ago. Also did some reading on Learning Python.
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(Seriously, one of the best things about my new job is that other[1] people here use Python instead of Perl for writing tools; I was using mostly Perl for over a decade, and I'm so happy to have switched a few years back.)
[1] I used Python, and a couple other folks did, but most of the people I was supporting were using either Perl or Java. Some people used Java for simple text manipulations that should have been done in three lines of Perl or six lines of Python....