Is "Descriptors and Metaclasses - Understanding and Using Python's More Advanced Features" really 3 hours long?
Seems so. It's called a 'tutorial', and other PyCon talks called tutorials are also around 3 hours.
PyCon US 2014 – Videos
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#42No dangerous "dongle" jokes this year I hope ;)
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#43Awesome--anyone have any more must see talk recommendations? PyCon always has really high quality talks.
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).
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#44Wow, 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!
Is NextDayVideo still the recorder for the 2014 pycon? If so I wouldn't be surprised as they have deep experience in this space.
Not this year. He was unsure he could be there, so PyCon used another company. He'll be doing PyOhio in July though.
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#45Just curious on all those who are there, do your companies pay for the trip, hotel and conference fees?
Developers have a yearly budget ($1.5K) to go to conferences. So, one biggish conf or a bunch of smaller local ones.
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#46I 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.
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#47Just curious on all those who are there, do your companies pay for the trip, hotel and conference fees?
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.
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#48Just curious on all those who are there, do your companies pay for the trip, hotel and conference fees?
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.
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#49I 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. Thanks! http://pyvideo.org/video/2578/cache-me-if-you-can-memcached-...
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-...
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is NextDayVideo still the recorder for the 2014 pycon? If so I wouldn't be surprised as they have deep experience in this space.
Not this year. He was unsure he could be there, so PyCon used another company. He'll be doing PyOhio in July though.
He? Just curious. Who is "he", Thanks.