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I hate it when YouTube channels put the subject of the video at the end of the title. It gets cropped and I can’t tell which videos are of interest to me without clicking on each one to see what it’s about.

Found this annoying too. I manually set the width of the playlist div to like 2000px just so the titles wouldn't get cropped.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What stuff blew you away?

As someone who writes lots of code that wrangles messy raw data inputs via DataFrames, the talk on Pandera type checking for DataFrames was very interesting. Dunno if it will work in practice for my use case, but I’ll definitely be checking it out.

cool -- what talk was that? Could you share a link? I've looked through the youtube uploads but can't find the Pandera talk based on the titles

Re: PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who writes lots of code that wrangles messy raw data inputs via DataFrames, the talk on Pandera type checking for DataFrames was very interesting. Dunno if it will work in practice for my use case, but I’ll definitely be checking it out.

cool -- what talk was that? Could you share a link? I've looked through the youtube uploads but can't find the Pandera talk based on the titles

https://youtu.be/PI5UmKi14cM

Re: PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available

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post #27

I hate it when YouTube channels put the subject of the video at the end of the title. It gets cropped and I can’t tell which videos are of interest to me without clicking on each one to see what it’s about.

Agreed, hover over it if you have a mouse and the tooltip should show the full name.

I’m on a phone :(

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As a young ambitious man I always knew programming was going to be my passion, but life had different plans and I have ended up in less technical IT related roles. I used to think that this ever-revolving door of advancement in tech would create an interesting career but now that I realize that programming is not my career path, I now feel that in my mid 30s with a family it could become extremely cumbersome to those in the field.

I'm interested in opinions of how experienced and mid to high-level devs still feel after 15+ years of experience about the constant evolutions of technologies and their associated "metas" such as TDD, project mgmt systems such as agile, etc jive with that mentality. Does the chase/"circle around" ever get old? I try to keep up with it all through HN, but wasn't the basis of a lot of languages such as python and php to reduce that and get things to MVP? Maybe I'm just way off course.

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As a young ambitious man I always knew programming was going to be my passion, but life had different plans and I have ended up in less technical IT related roles. I used to think that this ever-revolving door of advancement in tech would create an interesting career but now that I realize that programming is not my career path, I now feel that in my mid 30s with a family it could become extremely cumbersome to those…

I’ve been a coder for over two decades, and here’s my take on this. First, good employers want smart engineers, and bet that they can learn things quickly. You don’t need to have N years of experience with Kubernetes. Second, most of your jobs later in your career will either come through your network, or will decide on you based on references from your network. Your network is the most import thing. Third, I’ve seen “new hot technologies” come and go without me ever learning them. Many are fads, you don’t need to learn them all, or even most of them. BUT, you do need to continuously learn, and ideally be able to display that in some way.

Re: PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available

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As a young ambitious man I always knew programming was going to be my passion, but life had different plans and I have ended up in less technical IT related roles. I used to think that this ever-revolving door of advancement in tech would create an interesting career but now that I realize that programming is not my career path, I now feel that in my mid 30s with a family it could become extremely cumbersome to those…

I don't think it's cumbersome. After doing stuff long enough you get to the point when you realize you can't know everything, you are not perfect, and more importantly, NO ONE IS.
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