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PyCon US 2014 – Videos

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It seems like the video is not up yet, but "The Birth and Death of Javascript" by Gary Bernhardt -- of 'Wat!' infamy[1] -- was by far the most entertaining talk I've seen yet. Jessica McKellar's quick overview of building a language-level sandbox was also phenomenal. Pycon has been really good so far, I can't wait for the next two days of talks.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

> A video of The Birth & Death of JavaScript was published accidentally; it's down now. I'll publish the best of the sevenish recordings soon.

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/455045879985356800

I got really excited when I saw the PyCon videos up and then really sad when his talk wasn't listed. Any idea whether that is the full set of videos they are going to post or are there more to come?

I think they post every talk, every lightning talk, and each keynote. These are just the first ones that have been posted.

Turns out it's hard to post videos of talks before they happen, and after they've happened it still takes at least a bit of time to get them online.

I saw Gary's talk at CodeMash, and yes, you should all rush to go watch it once the video is up. He wasn't putting it up until he'd finished giving it, and PyCon is the last time...

It's up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Hlc1suTss

It shows up as private to me...

same here. it was public until about 10 minutes ago

I 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-...

There are more on their Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDHJGm0IxH9uwcIHfR72yg/vid...

Is it just me, or did the videos disappear?

Probably disabled video listing on their YouTube profile page. They want you go to their website to watch the videos rather than on YouTube.

Wow, 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!

This was insanely fast. Having video release date deltas not measured in weeks and months is a great achievement.

They must have used golang to get this processed and posted.

dunno why that was getting downvotes :-) It's not trolling if the tongue is in the cheek

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.

Carl Karsten (http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfkarsten) owns NextDayVideo, and is pretty synonymous with PyCon video.

Just 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.

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.

I was not able to go this year, but one of the perks of my job is paid trips to cons. It is worth asking for most reasonable employers will say yes.

Developers have a yearly budget ($1.5K) to go to conferences. So, one biggish conf or a bunch of smaller local ones.

Where do you work?

Speaking for me, my company paid for everything because I'm speaking.

My company paid for my trip.

I haven't been to Pycon, but I'll be presenting "Brainwaves for Hackers" at Europython in July, and I'll probably submit a proposal for "Scientific Visualizations with Blender" for the concurrent PyData Berlin event.

Please do the "Scientific Visualizations with Blender" talk!

Yeah thanks! Here is a little zapier zap to send email alerts when new videos are posted http://zpr.io/Hkyh :)

I 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.

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.

Awesome--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).

Did they recorded for every talks in https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/talks/ ?

If yes, It's will really awesome, can't wait for the rest.

I suppose more videos are going to be added to this list? Kind of make you wish they had votes / rating for the videos.

Why votes and ratings? While I think I understand what you mean, wouldn't you agree that votes play into a system in which the early-released and popular end up shadowing some of the other great content?

Which is to say, things that you find interesting may not be what I find interesting (or why easy, large-generalist-audience CSS questions become so popular on stackoverflow).

These are from the first day of talks and a few of the tutorials. The second day is going on now, so they should be online in a day or two.

FYI, headline has a typo. 2014 PyCon Videos.

I'd love to see John Perry Barlow... :)

No dangerous "dongle" jokes this year I hope ;)

What's VieDOS ? A new disk operating system written in Python?

I think it's a typo. it should be 'Videos'.

bullshitting much, huh?

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