[HN Gopher] PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
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       PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
        
       Author : precern_harlan
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2021-06-04 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pycon.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pycon.blogspot.com)
        
       | slver wrote:
       | What's the TL;DWWWW?
       | 
       | (Too Long; Didn't Waste a Whole Week Watching)
        
       | exegete wrote:
       | Any recommended talks to watch from this?
        
         | emj wrote:
         | I liked the pyKnit presentation it was a very relaxing
         | experience, but mostly because even if I don't knit I've met
         | very nice people who knit at conferences.
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7LEN2oqpkM
        
       | yuy910616 wrote:
       | Question about youtube: Youtube video thumbnails abbreviates long
       | video titles to "..."
       | 
       | For example: TALK / Mariatta Wijaya / Oops! I Became an Open..
       | 
       | Is there a way to fix this?
        
         | cvlax wrote:
         | I'd fix it by skipping the talks and looking at the commit
         | histories instead. Works for every PyCon and is quite
         | instructive.
        
         | yuy910616 wrote:
         | another poster found a way:
         | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Uw4_HvXqvYk1Y5P8kry...
        
       | yuy910616 wrote:
       | After watching this 2018 talk on typing:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWV8t494N88
       | 
       | and this one last year:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST33zDM9vOE&t=68s
       | 
       | and finally this one in 2021:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj_9TyT3V98
       | 
       | I think I'll finally start using type checking - it really seems
       | to just eliminate a whole class of potential bugs; a class that
       | is often not tested at that.
        
         | wonton53 wrote:
         | Great! I am so glad more people see types as a useful tool.
         | Personally I see it as essential, so I struggle to understand
         | the mind set of people who do not want to use them. I
         | understand that people think it feels like a lot of work, but
         | that is like nothing compared to the 90% of time people who
         | dont use types spend on reading logs and fixng the same issues
         | every day. I assume people have some sort of amnesia and
         | thinking <<oh the value was undefined, I have never seen THAT
         | error before>>, but that is probably just me being bitter. So I
         | was wondering, since you seem like a super-fresh converted;did
         | you have any specific reservations originally, and whas there
         | any specific type of solution to a issue that finally changed
         | your mind?
        
           | yuy910616 wrote:
           | Glad to share but I'm not sure if I'm representational - I'm
           | a data analyst who is learning more about backend
           | engineering.
           | 
           | I think if you're a SWE or has a CS education or worked with
           | a compiled language before, you know exactly what kind of
           | problem typing is solving. For me, I have to first discover
           | the problem, slowly learn that there is a solution out there,
           | and finally realizing that my problem can be solved by this
           | solution.
           | 
           | The formalization of problem space + the discovery of
           | solutions + the final realization of matching solutions to
           | problems are non-trivial. I'm a bit embarrassed that it took
           | so long and a bit sad. But it is what it is.
        
           | ithrow wrote:
           | That was not condescending at all.
        
       | flakiness wrote:
       | Playlist:
       | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Uw4_HvXqvYk1Y5P8kry...
       | This page has full titles of the talks. No abbreviation.
        
         | yuy910616 wrote:
         | way better! thank you!
        
       | emmap21 wrote:
       | Thanks for sharing this link
        
         | precern_harlan wrote:
         | There's some great stuff on there. I'm blown away by the pace
         | of innovation in the Python community.
        
           | boublepop wrote:
           | What stuff blew you away?
        
             | precern_harlan wrote:
             | 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.
        
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