@freemo @burtawicz
I broke our in-house implementation once in a production environment in front of a customer.
When asked if I was going to fix it - I politely said I could, but didn't have the authority to do so(and this gave a brief explanation <2min on how to do it).
Since then, I've been given clearance to do so- but not the compensation.
@burtawicz Probably not a story, much less a cool story, but I've a set of websites written in Python (using either Flask or FastAPI micro-frameworks) as part of my Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Stats project:
https://stats.wwdt.me
https://graphs.wwdt.me
https://api.wwdt.me
https://reports.wwdt.me
@burtawicz when I read Mike Steel's book on Phylogenetics, I found that it helped learning to write Python objects corresponding to the mathematical objects introduced in the book.
@burtawicz I'm nearly 60 and decided to do a Master of Analytics degree during a covid downtown. So only now learning Python and R... No cool stories, yet. The last time I wrote code was in C (the original K&R version) in the early 80s. These new languages are so much easier.
@burtawicz I wrote software in python that can successfully predict if you have COVID or not with over 91% accuracy simply from breathing into a machine :)