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Ride the Snake: reddit keynote at PyCon 09

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"relational databases are really good solutions to problems we don't have"

I love the reddit team's presentations. Does anyone have a video to the whole thing?

I'm guessing reddit uses BeautifulSoup just for crawling for images? I've always wondered how they decide which of the 100 images on a page to use for thumbnails.

The presentations were all shot on video, so they should be online soon.

We certainly got a lot of feedback on our thumbnail-ification process. Try reading the twitter feed with the presentation: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=reddit+%23pycon

And we'll blog.reddit.com the video and embed the ppt once everything goes live. A big thanks to everyone who got up early for our talk.

If the thumbs were really cut off (hard to tell from the slides), you should use the Python OpenCV hooks and center the thumbnail on the likeliest face.

http://www.google.com/search?q=opencv+haar+cascade

A couple months ago, Ricardo Galli - spanish hacker and creator of the open-source reddit-like "Meneame" - posted an explanation of his algorithm for doing that.

Original link: http://gallir.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/encontrando-patrones-...

Poorly translated by Google: http://translate.google.com.pe/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgall...

I love offbeat slides like these, but I only get 10% of the story from them. Mind you, making up the content might be more interesting than the real thing, in some cases!

These slides are hilarious. Definitely good to see a group of developers that don't take themselves too seriously and don't inject a macho attitude into their work. Refreshing for sure.

If anybody wants a CSS preprocessor like the C55 preprocessor mentioned in this video, check out http://sandbox.pocoo.org/clevercss/

It's pretty good.

Folks, PyCon videos should go up once the con is over.

I need to build a file with shit that I need to learn at some point. ctags would go in that list.

What does this have to do with this presentation? Nothing. But ctypes reminded me of ctags.

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