I've watched tons and tons of tech talks in the past few years and this one was one of the best I've seen. Thanks for sharing

This is a great talk. Part of me died a little bit inside though when he says he wanted to use a URLShortener and in order to do so he had to go away and read 10K lines of code. He opens with the quote "don't do hard things in the first place" 🤷🏼‍♂ also, if he reads the 10K, does he have to read the code of whatever libs / dependency that is using et al?

Thank you, Mirabai. Thank you, Joshua, Hesky, Ted, Jen and everyone else who has contributed to Plover. Thank you Aerick for creating Lapwing. Thank you to the hardware vendors who produce high quality, affordable keyboards that feel delightful and fun to use. Thank you to the QMK project and the Javelin project that provides the firmware for those keyboards.

@33:33 Not that it's important to the working of the program - but there's a mismatch in sizes of the arrays on the left and right hand size when you're setting up the 5 pixel colours on certain button presses. On the left hand side you're referring to 6 elements (cpx.pixels[0:5] and cpx.pixels[5:10]) but you're using arrays of 5 elements on the right hand side. It would have been clearer to use something like 'cpx.pixels[0:] = [(255,0,0)]* 5' and 'cpx.pixels[5:] = [(0,255,0)]*5'.

7:19 the example code for enumerate: for i, color in enumerate(colors); print i, '-->', colors[i] should just be just color (no indexing required), interesting typo. Gem of a talk.

I have 0 programming experience and wanting to learn Python. This is obvi completely over my head bc i dont know what any of the words even mean but I dont want to find a random source to learn and learn incorrectly. Is there any recommendations of resources that teach programming from start but without the flaws this speaker teaches?

Respect should be given. Perfect

it is nice seeing linus being able to learn and adapt. "This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good. This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry. The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely."

At 41:09 - in the cache decorator definition - line 6: if we return newfunc(*args) wouldn't it cause infinite calls?

This guy realized 9 years ago that Valve will push linux hard.. and they really did with the SteamDeck nowadays

15:19 This is EXACTLY what's happening to NixOS right now

this guy literally changed the software world

This talk is vague, vapid nonsense.

great talk thank you!

Emmanuel Ifediora here, ALX SE brought me here

Pretty sure the default system encoding is defined with the LANG environment variable (under Unix), and these days it's always UTF-8. (Under Windows it might be UTF-16.) Oh, this talk is really old and about Python 2! Welp. It also claims at one point that characters are represented as codepoints. Well, a character might span multiple codepoints. To be more clear people talk about graphemes.

Which HARDWARE is recommended and compatible with running Linux normally and even optimally? And which manufacturers should one STAY AWAY FROM with respect to Linux?

11 years later and still very helpful, many thanks

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Half Python, Half Cocaine

django-db-parti last update 10 years ago (-:

Parts of it went way over my head, but it was still quite interesting for someone, who has just started to wonder 'how Python works'. Great stuff!

Good talk

"I hate code and I want as little of it as possible in our product" - Jack Diederich "We usually think of code as an ASSET, a valuable thing that we shouldn't delete. Code is a LIABILITY - all code is cost " - Dan North

Has this evolved since? I'd like to learn coding, and this would make it possible! Any news the last decade?

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I watched so many videos trying to understand self and at 1:21:20 I finally had it explained where I could understand it. Thank you

Any alx student here?

Seems like he left you tube also , he posted his last video before 4 years.

Watched this video today in 2024 April, 😄He is pro in meta class before 11 years, The one concept which is very help in programming , i got to know today after working 5 years in ptyhon

Massimo di pierro I LOVE you

The reason why I still use Python.

I wish they also shared with us the timing/side-channel attacks part in the open space, what an amazing talk!

Where do I download the software I’m disabled thinking about learning I can’t type that well

2024 and Debian still feels like a nightmare

Such a gem 💎😍 Thank you so much!

Never trust Python dev who tells you that whitespace is not significant 😛

I love Linus, and I have always thought the world needs to get thicker skin. The idea that it is ok to be so weak that other peoples words can break you. Baffles me and it is pathetic. Like Linus... I just don't care.

Who is here because of ALX SE or Holberton

Is this something that has been commercialized before ?

Why nobody think until now to mechanically turn an old QWERTY keyboard in a steno keyboard? I mean there are millions of old “unused anymore” keyboards. And sitting somewhere in a corner full of dust. Why not take them and dismantle and turn them in steno keyboards?

Wow what suckers these guys, have some respect for the guy, not everyone can be nice when they have to write Linux code all day long, just to get your OS running so you can watch KZfaq on your phone without lag. ;-)

Thank you for this amazing talk. I have watched this video time and again from the beginning of my programming journey and every time I take away something new!

You can hear someone saying uuuh at 1:25

I love hearing people in the last discuss problems that are solved today! Like the argument about paying for copies of digital content. The answer that every company (books, music, software) has found is just implementing a subscription model and requiring a sign in to access software, or some type of internet connection at least. That way, people rather just pay the subscription and get regular updates to their apps, music, new books, and UI QOL updates as opposed to pirating older versions of the software or music. I feel like listening to the types of problems that people have discussed in the past and how those problems were solved could key us into what sorts of reasoning we need to solve the problems of today.

does any1 here know how to run the dragon py dragon 32 emulator? thanks..............

“If implementation is hard to explain then it may be good” Reminds me of pthread vs c++ thread. It is easy to implement in c++ but unless you program in pthread, various multithreading problems, you will not learn the conceptual ideas related to it. It’s about whether you are becoming code money for corporations or actually becoming a good programmer.

At 30:11, for solving the issue of having to write and maintain applications for each distro he said "you can solve it by linking everything statically and giving your own file system ... but you really have to do that right now" and goes onto explain why. Why don't more developers do this? Have any of you or someone you know done this, considered it, or gotten close / done something similar. Do you know any examples with more popular software? What did mean specifically by "but you really have to do that right now" and why is that the case?

Watching this in 2024. This video tutorial is still golden!

I am going to start not a startup, but a graham cracker company called graham um’s