Dropbox is looking to strengthen and scale their storage service, and it just announced moments ago that it hired one of the senior executives within Google: Guido Van Rossum. For those not familiar ...

Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google-- at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.

Dropbox has hired Google executive and programming guru Guido van Rossum. Van Rossum, originally from the Netherlands, is known for creating the Python programming language. It so happens that Dropbox ...

The original open source software “Benevolent Dictator For Life” and author of Python, Guido van Rossum, is leaving Google to join Dropbox, the startup will announce later today. Van Rossum was a ...

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement. That ends his six and half years with the ...

Dropbox will cease development on Pyston, but the source code will be available for those who want to continue hacking on JIT-powered Python Pyston, Dropbox’s project to create a faster Python runtime ...

After gaining a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam, Van Rossum worked for the Netherlands Institute and then at the National Institute of Standards ...

After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

These days everyone talks about data “in the cloud.” However, before that phrase was fashionable, there were a few pioneers and one of the most famous of these is Dropbox — a service that let you ...

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale Your email has been sent While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has ...