Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Today's episode is a real scream. Recorded in a haunted house, this week's host is longtime podcast friend Anil Dash, joined by Fog Creek's Jenn Schiffer, Stack Overflow engineering manager Matt Sherman, news editor Ilana Yitzhaki, and executive producer Kaitlin Pike. Special guest is Leon Young of Cogniss.

The Facebook-sponsored TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition which took place in Nairobi recently brought together fifteen African startups for a glitzy pitch session that offered entrants the chance to win $25,000, as well as the opportunity to go on and compete for $50,000 at the Disrupt Cup, which will be held in Silicon Valley next year. After the Kenyan logistics startup, Lori Systems, won the Nairobi event murmurings of alleged tournament rigging started doing the rounds and eventually surfaced in media reports. This palava has got Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga wondering what, if any, value startup competitions are adding to Africa's emerging tech ecosystem, and has inspired them to interrogate the motives and modus operandi of various commercial interests who are looking to position themselves as enablers of Africa's tech industry. Also in this African Tech Round-up podcast, Musa and Andile discuss South Africa’s recent data breach-- the largest in the country’s history, ponder the merits of Kwese's partnership with VICE, and chat about SAP's diabolical admission of guilt made to U.S. authorities-- over a $6.7 million corporate bribe paid to secure a sizeable Transnet contract in South Africa. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Recorded October 26, 2017

Topics

• Laravel Meetup - recap and news
• https://ether.cards/
• Amazon.com: Introducing - Amazon Key: Amazon Devices & Accessories
• You can use emoticons as CSS selectors • r/webdev
• Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
• First Real Estate Sold Through Ethereum Bockchain Smart Contracts - Ethereum World News
• The FCC will soon vote to kill net neutrality. But Congress can stop them if they hear from constituents now.

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Conference videos for DjangoCon 2017 and PyGotham 2017*
• * Python 3.6.3 released on Tue. All machines at FB are already running it (3 days)*
• Your technical skills are obsolete: now what?
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• pathlib — Filesystem Paths as Objects
• LUMINOTH: Open source Computer Vision toolkit
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/49

Electrical engineer, Yannick Lefang, is the Founder and CEO of Kasi Insight-- a research and advisory firm that provides African consumer data and actionable insights. Since 2013, Yannick's firm has been intent on empowering business leaders and entrepreneurs with the game-changing insight they need to tap into the continent's fast-growing markets. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at Afrobytes Tech Conference 2017 - Yannick explains why even some of the most-quoted macroeconomic statistics published by leading NGO's and top-flight global consultancies can be misleading. He also gives some real-world examples of how research conducted by his firm has helped clients meet business objectives.

Recorded October 18, 2017

Topics

• Business fun - Penalized
• Upgrading my network to "normal"
• We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
• You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy. – Startups & Venture Capital
• Falling through the KRACKs – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
• Doctor's office post it note
• Mr. Robot, Corporations, etc
• Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App
• IRS: ‘Significant’ number of Equifax victims had already had info stolen
• Larachat Live

Sean Godoy is the Founder and Executive Director of Divercity Property Solutions. He has cross-sector experience in the property industry in both South Africa and the UK. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Sean explains why he's excited about the global rise of real estate tech aka proptech. He believes that this trend could facilitate the democratisation of land and property ownership in Africa and help iron out the continent's complicated post-colonial land and property situation.

Topics covered in this episode:

• The Python Graph Gallery
• pynesis
• Things you need to know about garbage collection in Python
• * WSGI Is Not Enough Anymore,* part 1 and part 2
• Queues in Python
• Using Reflection: A Podcast About Humans Engineering
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/48