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They employ a lot of software developers and it’s a very unique campus. I considered it well worth the click.


This comment introduced me to pachinkremental. Thank you / goddamn you.


You're welcome and thank you ;-)


Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.


I just checked and my PyCon keynote got 6,200 - pretty happy with that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-KQZZarpc


I consider you a pretty big name in our little corner of the world, so that number seemed pretty low to me! Expected 5 figures at least!!


Almost nobody cares about actually learning how to program anymore. These days, the majority of humans are solving for one question- "what do I need to say to someone for them to give me money?"


Is number of YouTube views the new metric for gauging how much “people care about learning to program”?


yes


The days of people entering the industry to make big money are probably behind us.


good


hmm sounds like your AIE keynote was bigger than PyCon :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTMUWP5B0s


There is nothing interesting going on at pycon, usually. Most language-specific conferences tend to be pretty boring imho.


Depends on the language. Julia has a lot of cool stuff going on. And really small languages like Elm (when it was still being used) would probably involve a lot of discussion about programming language history and future considerations


> Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list.

I think it's pretty cool we're hearing from more voices though.


It appears to contain a bunch of other conferences. NDC, ElixirConf, etc.


Lexington is the home of the University of Kentucky. Lexmark shuttering their plant wouldn’t be _good_ for the economy, but Lexington is first and foremost a “college town.”


The same is true of Rochester, NY, where Xerox came out of. I went to school there. In the old days the university fed into local employers (Xerox, Kodak), but now it's a college town where the university and its med school hospital is a big employer but there is huge wealth disparity, and not a lot of opportunity for the large population that is less educated and not affiliated with the school. Not a great situation.


They have much less content, but if you value quality over quantity, I don't think that's an issue.

When I look at the Apple TV+ catalog, I can see myself giving an honest shake to _most_ of their content. I simply can't say the same for other services. I understand why they are flooding the zone if they have the resources, but there's a finite amount of content one human can watch.

If Apple releases 50 shows and 80% are up my alley, I get the same amount of enjoyable content as Netflix releasing 400 shows but only 10% are worth my time.


I think my issue is that it's not 80% up my alley. I see a bunch of decent looking shows that are probably good for their audience, I'm just not their audience. But even for stuff where I'm their audience, they often feel to be lacking something.


My favorite CS story in a long time. Up there with the 500-mile email.


There are musicians that would love to use hardware-based emulation for recording and would happily settle for current software-based solutions for live performance. Many professional musicians already do this. Musicians such as Floating Points have studios filled to the brim with large, rare, expensive synthesizers[1] with which they don't travel. Existing VSTs and reproductions get you 90% of the way there, but MAME emulation may be able to bring higher-quality emulation to a wider set of musicians.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iX1rnW9WQ


Having to quote escape a “timestamp” field at least once a week, I was _extremely_ surprised to see it excluded from this list.


Fair point, looks suspicious on first sight. I've checked my tests briefly: It's accepted as table and column name. As mentioned in footnote [0] I haven't checked different contextes yet.

Can you tell me: what kind of identifier is it (view name, function name) and which SQL context it causes problems (select list, create/drop statement, ...) and which system has problems with it. Thx.


+1 for the orchestration horror stories podcast.


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