By Team Commerce
2021-02-28 04:55:00 UTC
Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language. The one he used in projects at work was overcomplicated and clunky, but he thought he could use some of its better features to create something more forgiving, flexible, and easier to read.
Van Rossen developed his language mostly in his free time over the course of the next year, eventually deciding to name it Python after the British comedy series
Monty Python s Flying Circus, whose published scripts he was reading at the time of its implementation. In the years since, it s basically become the Holy Grail of general-purpose programming languages.
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Five things you can touch, whispers Rose, and I touch: duvet, her hand, my own hair, the rough plaster of the wall, and my device. It wakes up, a rectangle of soft light in our dark bedroom.
Four things you can hear, she says, and I listen for the tap-tap of water from somewhere in the kitchen, the rhythm of a neighbor’s music through the floor, the rustling of bedsheets and my pounding heart.
Three things you can see,
the socket of the empty light fixture on the ceiling, darker dark. My device in bed beside me, and Rose bathed in its light, a graceful silhouette propped up on one elbow.
Johnny Diaz, The New York Times
Published: 19 Jan 2021 12:31 AM BdST
Updated: 19 Jan 2021 12:31 AM BdST Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff are joined onstage by their family as President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden applaud at right onstage in Wilmington, Del, on Saturday night, Nov 7, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
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During the campaign, Biden addressed his age head-on in interviews and presented himself as a “transition candidate” who would help nurture new Democratic talent.
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California will soon use an icon developed by a team from Cylab and the University of Michigan in its privacy regulations.
This past January, you may have noticed the phrase Do not sell my personal information at the bottom of many webpages. If you didn t, it could be because there s no icon next to it even though the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests using one.
After a year without guidance on what that icon should look like, California has proposed an official icon to include with the opt-out text one developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University s CyLab and the University of Michigan s School of Information.
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