It seems like the video is not up yet, but "The Birth and Death of Javascript" by Gary Bernhardt -- of 'Wat!' infamy[1] -- was by far the most entertaining talk I've seen yet. Jessica McKellar's quick overview of building a language-level sandbox was also phenomenal. Pycon has been really good so far, I can't wait for the next two days of talks.
I got really excited when I saw the PyCon videos up and then really sad when his talk wasn't listed. Any idea whether that is the full set of videos they are going to post or are there more to come?
I saw Gary's talk at CodeMash, and yes, you should all rush to go watch it once the video is up. He wasn't putting it up until he'd finished giving it, and PyCon is the last time...
I spoke at PyCon, and it was my first time speaking at a major conference. If any HN'er with some spare time (or interest in the topic!) would like to give me feedback on what's good and bad about my talk, and what I can do to improve next time, it'd be very much appreciated.
Great talk! The last question you received about how the python memcache client handles distributing keys after adding a node (rather than removing one) would've been interesting to know, but no sweat. Looks like somebody explains how this is handled for the ruby client: https://www.mikeperham.com/2009/01/14/consistent-hashing-in-...
Wow, that was fast. Great infrastructure here at Pycon. Knowing what kind of work goes into editing video to make it available in good quality to the web, kudos to the Montréal-Python team for helping put this together!
Yea, my company paid for my trip, hotel, and conference fees.
Pycon, through the support of all the sponsors, is actually fairly cheap. Only $300 to attend, and they did an amazing job organizing it. Lunches and breakfast included. I know of other tech conferences that are much more expensive.
I think it could be easily argued that sending employees to things like Pycon directly benefit your company. We work in a really fast moving industry so it's a necessity to keep employees on the ball. Going this year I learned a ton of new things about Python that made me more productive.
I was a tutorial presenter — I have a startup and a tiny tiny salary, so my company was not able to subsidize the trip. I did however get a big financial aid grant from the conference/PyLadies.
I haven't been to Pycon, but I'll be presenting "Brainwaves for Hackers" at Europython in July, and I'll probably submit a proposal for "Scientific Visualizations with Blender" for the concurrent PyData Berlin event.
I will be watching a few of the ones marked under tutorial that are 3+ hours long.
I really appreciate the fact that they allow these tutorials to go this long and respect the content to know that it will take this long to provide more than a superficial understanding of the subject.
I also find the presenters are much more relaxed and their personalities really come through as there is no pressure to get everything in within an hour.
If you have 3 hours to watch a tutorial, David Beazley's generators talk. Also, Jess McKellar's keynote on the sorry state of K12 CS education in the US (and some things we can do about it).
Why votes and ratings? While I think I understand what you mean, wouldn't you agree that votes play into a system in which the early-released and popular end up shadowing some of the other great content?
Which is to say, things that you find interesting may not be what I find interesting (or why easy, large-generalist-audience CSS questions become so popular on stackoverflow).
[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat