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I have an updated version of this on my blog here: https://chrisamico.com/blog/2023-01-14/python-setup/.

Python

This is my recommended Python setup, as of Fall 2022. The Python landscape can be a confusing mess of overlapping tools that sometimes don't work well together. This is an effort to standardize our approach and environments.

Tools and helpful links:

Python docs: https://docs.python.org/3/
Python Standard Library: - Start here when you're trying to solve a specific problem

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

Honey, I Turned The Poems Into A Recurrent Neural Network: A Short Evening of Computer-Generated Poetry

Description

On this auspicious evening, students from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program will read their computer-generated poetry aloud before a delighted audience (that's you!). To be presented are a number of vital contemporary poetic forms, including neural network biblical gibberish, PowerPoint presentations from stochastic processes, instructions for generating instructions for generating instructions, deeply plausible computer-imagined artist statements, human-assisted machine translations, and oh, chatbots of all types and varieties.

This event is part of the final project requirements for Reading and Writing Electronic Text, a class at ITP that combines an introduction to the Python programming language with an introduction to conceptual and experimental poetry. More information about the class can be fou

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Alexander, Monica K.	Employee	$56,000.00	Per Annum	EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
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Augustine, Rene I.	Employee	$140,000.00	Per Annum	SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SENIOR ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
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Baldwin, Brittany L.	Employee	$70,000.00	Per Annum	SPEECHWRITER

Django Migrations without Downtime

The following instructions describe a set of processes allowing you to run Django database migrations against a production database without having to bring the web service down.

Note that in the below instructions, migrations are all run manually at explicit points, and are not an automatic part of the deployment process.

Adding Fields or Tables

Adding a (nullable) field or a new table

Make the model or column addition in your code.

How they hire

Some articles of interest about news/tech orgs and their hiring process and work expectations.

Twitter thread by Lori Todd on hiring for NPR's social media intern:
- Cover letter first graf must be good.
NPR’s Brian Boyer on Building and Managing News Apps Teams
Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? Here are 8 steps - by Scott Klein at ProPublica.
How to apply to an internship at NPR Visuals (2015)
Getting a Job in Journalism Code - by Jeremy Merrill and Sisi Wei (2014), back when they were recent grads.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8

	# Example python code to extract Named-entity recognition (NER)
	# from a PDF document.
	#
	# The script uses spacy and spacypdfreader

	# Install a pip packages require for
	#import sys

	code,sector,subsector,industry_group,industry_subgroup,industry
	111110,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Soybean Farming,Soybean Farming
	111120,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Oilseed (except Soybean) Farming,Oilseed (except Soybean) Farming
	111130,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Dry Pea and Bean Farming,Dry Pea and Bean Farming
	111140,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Wheat Farming,Wheat Farming
	111150,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Corn Farming,Corn Farming
	111160,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Rice Farming,Rice Farming
	111191,"Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting",Crop Production,Oilseed and Grain Farming,Other Grain Farming,Oilseed and Grain Combination Farming
	111199,"Agri

	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"

	# get these from apps.twitter.com
	CONSUMER_KEY = "foo"
	CONSUMER_SECRET = "bar"
	OAUTH_TOKEN = "blee"
	OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "baz"

	TWITTER_USER = "your_username" # needs to be the one associated with keys above

	*.pyc
	project/settings_dev.py