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by akuchling 14y ago
Since 2006 PyCon chairs have followed an unofficial pattern of chairing two conferences and then stepping aside. Jesse chaired PyCon 2012 and 2013, so this isn't a surprise. (I co-chaired PyCon 2006 and 2007, and trust me: two years of con
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by akuchling 14y ago
People have been writing async apps in Python since 1995 (Medusa); Twisted was first published around 2001. It's not like async programming is new to Python.
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by akuchling 14y ago
The PyCon site has a page of advice that links to sample proposals and relevant blog entries: https://us.pycon.org/2013/speaking/proposal_advice/
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by akuchling 14y ago
I always suggest Spencer Weart's 2008 history of climate change, published by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics at http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm (also available as a book). It provides a
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by akuchling 14y ago
The RFP says "The proposal may feature a retheming of http://docs.python.org but need not do so," so that depends on how ambitious the proposers are. The focus of the RFP is definitely www.python.org.
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by akuchling 15y ago
A nice side effect is that you'll probably buy fewer DVDs, because the effective cost would be $37.50 instead of $15.
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by akuchling 15y ago
An author (who does yoga himself) on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker argued that this story is sensationalized and somewhat unfair: http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2012/01/05/ny-times-unfairly-trash...
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by akuchling 15y ago
Dan Barker, of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, wrote an account of being a Daily Show interview subject: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2010/04/14/behi... They work hard to get a funny story from their interviews, and
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by akuchling 15y ago
I think Knuth originally envisioned a writer working with a book designer/TeX developer to build a new set of macros for each project, and once the book was written the macros would be left alone. Therefore it would be very important to av
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by akuchling 15y ago
It's not as bad as it sounds, though 6 hours is quite a while. Platelet donation is done this way ( http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/types-donations/... ), taking an hour or two each time, and there are donors who make a platele
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by akuchling 15y ago
A friend-of-a-friend ran a similar campaign for her brother, and she assembled a long list of registries: http://www.healemru.com/registries.php I think the national registries share data, so a match in a non-US country should be reported
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by akuchling 15y ago
That could certainly be done, though I didn't convince myself it would work for PyCon. I suspect catering is definitely optional for small events or unstructured things like BarCamps, but for large events it becomes a necessity. If the con
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by akuchling 15y ago
I was co-chair of Python 2006 & 2007, and in preparation I went to SMOFcon. SF con issues have some relevance to tech cons, but only partially so: * SF cons don't usually provide food for all attendees, which is the big cost driver for
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by akuchling 15y ago
A similar point is made in Gene Weingarten's "Fatal Distraction" ( http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2010-Feature-Writing ), which was about parents who forget a child in the car. Excerpt: "[British psychologist James Reason] likens the layer
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by akuchling 16y ago
Maybe it was "Calculus Made Easy", by Silvanus P. Thompson? That's an old book that explains the basic idea of integration and differentiation, but doesn't try to be rigorous at all. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8533492/Calculus-Made-Easy-by
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by akuchling 16y ago
I like reading the various "Best XYZ Writing 20xx" collections, and the New Yorker is pretty much always represented multiple times in the "Best Science and Nature Writing" anthologies. There's a "Best Technology Writing" series, too, and