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smortaz

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Shahrokh Mortazavi runs the Data Science Developer Tools teams at Microsoft, focused on Python, R, and Jupyter Notebooks (http://notebooks.azure.com). Previously, he was in the High Performance Computing group at Microsoft. He worked on the Phoenix Compiler tool chain (code gen, analysis, JIT) at Microsoft Research and, prior to that, over a 10 year period led Sun Microsystems’ Code Generation & Optimization compiler backend teams. Contact: smortaz over at microsoft.com
  1. Ask HN: Monitor a Tennis Court from a Webpage

    Hello HN. I’d like to set up a webcam on a public tennis court so people can visit a URL and see if the court is occupied before heading there. If you have ideas how this can be done relatively cheaply please lmk! Some…

    2 points 1
  2. How Python made it big at Microsoft (techrepublic.com)
    1 points 1
  3. Python's journey at Microsoft (talkpython.fm)
    1 points 0
  4. Data Science with Python in Visual Studio Code [Microsoft] (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    6 points 0
  5. PyCon 2018 recap from msft (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    3 points 0
  6. VS Code in Anaconda Distribution 5.1 (anaconda.com)
    50 points 6
  7. Visual Studio Code is now shipping with Anaconda (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    8 points 0
  8. Spectre mitigations in MSFT VC++ compiler (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    7 points 1
  9. Simulating chutes and ladders (jakevdp.github.io)
    3 points 0
  10. Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback

    Folks, Microsoft is officially considering providing Python support in Excel (finally). If you are interested in this, please visit their uservoice page and let them know what you think. Thank you!…

    594 points 279
  11. VSCode/Python: 2nd release – 84 issues fixed, conda envs, etc. (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    2 points 0
  12. An astonishing old calculator (uses piano wire for memory) (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    90 points 43
  14. “Run” the Python Data Science Handbook in your browser (notebooks.azure.com)
    61 points 7
  15. “RUN” Jakevdp's Data Science Book Online (twitter.com)
    3 points 0
  16. How Powerful Are Microsoft's Azure Notebooks? (walkingrandomly.com)
    3 points 0
  17. Python Support Added to Microsoft SQL Server (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
    5 points 0
  18. R Tools for Visual Studio Reaches 1.0 (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  19. Visual Studio now has a Data Science focus (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    2 points 0
  20. The New Data Science Workload in Visual Studio (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    1 points 0
  21. R Tools for Visual Studio v0.3 available for download (microsoft.github.io)
    12 points 6
  22. R coming to Visual Studio (youtube.com)
    3 points 0
  23. Show HN: R in Visual Studio from Microsoft (youtube.com)
    4 points 1
  24. Show HN: Jupyter/IPython service launched on Azure (free)

    Hi folks from PyData Seattle conference! Our team just launched a hosted Jupyter notebook service. Would love to get your feedback! Also - it runs on Linux/docker - and we're new to Linux, so if you find any security…

    2 points 1
  25. Microsoft's Python IDE (PTVS 2.1 final)now available (pytools.codeplex.com)
    4 points 0