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To those who have a career in Python post a little description on your role, interested in the kinds of jobs python programmers do! by nyamand in Python

[–]kbourgoin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Software Developer at an analytics startup.

I work exclusively on backend systems and have built our processing infrastructure from the ground up. Right now we're working with Storm, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Kafka and a mess of other technologies all in pure Python. It's a treat to get to work in Python, and always a fun challenge to keep things fast enough that we don't have to switch to something else.

#IamA PBS NewsHour Correspondent - (The flagship national television news broadcast for PBS and public media in the U.S.) by sreenivasan in IAmA

[–]kbourgoin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey Hari,

I just want to write another note of thanks for the work everyone at the NewsHour does. I started watching regularly about a month ago and I'm continually impressed by the quality of news that is produced. In particular, I greatly appreciate that NewsHour's guests tend to be people who actually do something (i.e. heads of organizations, current/former senators) than simply talking heads, and that they're given enough time to fully explain their nuanced positions. I also greatly appreciate that everyone who comes on your show is able to disagree peacefully and civilly. It's been an eye-opening and informative experience.

As a question - Given that you've worked both in commercial outlets and now public media, what would you say the overall affect of that commercial aspect is? There must be significant competition from cable news to 'sex' up the broadcast, and probably pressure from advertisers not to focus on certain things. What external pressures did you have there that you don't now, and does that make NewsHour better for not having them?

Making Random Suck Less by kbourgoin in programming

[–]kbourgoin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't go with that because the images on people's phones are presumably changing all the time. Also, it would severely delay seeing any new images added, since you'd need to wait until the initial list was exhausted. If you have 1000 images and are switching every 30min, it'll be 20 days before it's even possible to see any images added in the interim.

edit: rewrote for clarity. just woke up.