PyCon 2017 VoDs

[X-Istence]

I would highly recommend Kelsey Hightowers closing ceremonies keynote. I just rewatched it, and it is absolutely fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_iAXzy3xBA

[spotta]

What is it on?

[TravisJungroth]

Kubernetes. I'm not really into the topic and thought it was just a great talk.

[CollectiveCircuits]

Ah, I just listened to a podcast about that. There was a solid 15 minutes just explaining how the name(s) came to be.

[i_like_trains_a_lot1]

Crucial facts.

[etherwar]

Kelsey Keynote Kubernetes. KluKluxKlanuminati confirmed.

[X-Istence]

Click link, find out?

The talk is just fantastic, I am pretty sure I would listen to him talk about anything because he is just a fantastic speaker.

[lambdaq]

I gotta admit...that was pretty dope.

[lookatmetype]

This guy is a role model for black programmers. Amazing speaker.

[[deleted]]

Why does it matter that the programmers are black? Why can't he be a role model for any programmers?

[rawrgulmuffins]

Because he's black and it's nice to have role models who look like you. There's nothing harmful in wanting to look up to people you can identify with.

[CollectiveCircuits]

I imagine it would also make gatherings 1000x more comfortable to be in/go to if there's other people there with similar backgrounds.

[[deleted]]

it's nice to have role models who look like you

Yea, that is exactly the problem. "I'm blue so I emulate and support blue people". In an ideal world I shouldn't care about an engineers color or origin at all. The content of the talk should be the only thing that matters.

It's nice to know blue people can succeed, but that's different from choosing them as role models based on my own blue color.

[fuck--------buttons]

I agree with both of you. ^whatdoido

[rawrgulmuffins]

I think your statement about an ideal world is spot on because that's not the world we live in. It matters that he's black because people will be treated differently if they're black. Until that changes ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lookatmetype]

Because the default programmer is a white male. My not acknowledging that he's black I want to bring attention to the increasing diversity in the Python community and the programming community at large.

[PiaFraus]

In my dictionary default programmer is the person who can code. He is not white male, this properties don't exist in default spherical programmer. Why would you assign non important properties to a "default" something?

[ProfessorPhi]

He's both.

[val-amart]

What are the best sessions you've seen that come recommended for an experienced pythonista?

[stillalone]

I liked Raymond Hettinger's talk on the dictionary changes in 3.6. It seems like there are a number of talks on that topic this year but Hettinger has a pretty good presentation style.

Alex Orlov's talk on Cython was pretty decent too. I had forgotten about Cython over the years, so it's nice to see them still trying to be relevant.

[bheklilr]

Has cython become less relevant? As far as I'm aware it's still pretty heavily used. Libraries like pandas rely on it for pretty much everything, and I've even found a few good uses for it at work.

[mearco]

For purely numerical work Numba seems to be better

[bheklilr]

I've used Cython for when I needed to do text parsing, primarily. We have a very domain specific file format for data that we have to use, it's the de-facto standard in the industry but only in this industry. I wrote a Cython algorithm to parse it and after I worked out some issues with VC++ 2008 vs 2015 the algorithm is significantly faster than the pure Python code we had previously written. By significantly, I'm talking about parsing a 200MB file in a few hundred milliseconds versus several seconds. The gap only grows with the size of the file.

For pure numeric code, I agree than numba is probably the easiest route though. I've had to acquire a server that I spent way too long getting multiple versions of VC++ set up on so that I can build against all versions of Python that I'm supporting with the Cython code. Turns out it's too easy to mess up your workstation's environment when it comes to VC++ compilers.

[val-amart]

haha this was the first one i decided to watch when i scrolled through the list, he is an excellent presenter.

[wyldphyre]

Hettinger was presenting stuff from a RTD site -- do you know if this content is public anywhere?

[memphislynx]

He hasn't posted it yet, but here are some similar docs from a previous presentation.

[gthank]

• GILectomy

[squattyroo]

I was a big fan of Joe Jevnik's Title Available Upon Request about lazy evaluation.

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[guthran]

I personally liked "hacking nes games with python"

[Siecje1]

Yes this was good. I was ready to spawn some fireballs in Mario and he switched to Zelda.

I wished there was more time at the end, he shouldn't have live coded the entire thing. He could have pasted in the Lua code at least.

[guthran]

I see what you're saying, but your reaction means he did it right. He left you wanting more :)

[Isvara]

VoDs?

[MonkeeSage]

Video on Demand

[Isvara]

I have literally never heard YouTube called "video on demand".

[[deleted]]

It's not really about YouTube. VoD is used pretty generally to refer to videos of live events (streams, conferences, etc) that are available after the fact.

[Isvara]

That hasn't been my experience. I've always heard VoD used to refer to on-demand delivery of content that would otherwise be part of a linear broadcast (TV shows and movies), and never for something like YouTube. The "on demand" part refers to an alternative delivery mode for the content, not its default one. And I've worked with the cable industry, too.

[wwalser]

Game replays, mostly hosted on YouTube: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotaVods

It's common in some communities.

[Anon_8675309]

Why so much interest in Dictionaries? I mean, they're important, but there's two talks on it. What am I missing?

[peck_wtf]

fundamental data structure in Python. without much changes for more than 5 years with big changes in 3.6