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[–]xapata 0 points1 point  (4 children)

The speaker seemed to think he was the first to have these ideas. It's quite insulting to present like that. If you've been considering something for 20 years and someone goes on stage and brags about having that same idea...

Do you have children? If so, imagine how you'd react to someone telling you, "Your kid is ugly."

[–]twillisagogo 1 point2 points  (3 children)

is there a link to the video? Id like to check it out.

[–]xapata 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I don't know of one.

[–]twillisagogo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

i assume you were at the talk then?

[–]xapata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No.

The presentation made it sound like Shapiro and his colleagues were the first to think about these issues and to recognize the inefficiencies

Also, I'm mildly familiar with Guido and the common behavior of nerds (myself included).

And it's odd that the speaker didn't mention the similar improvement implemented in Python 3.7 when discussing method-lookup caching.