Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

On today's episode we chat about the nature of VR and reality with IBM Watson's Michael Ludden, plus SO marketing manager Rachel Ferrigno stops by to present the NYC Dev Hiring Ecosystem report.

Recorded October 12, 2017

Topics

• Meetup
• Cloudflare ditches sites that use Coinhive mining code after classing it as malware
• Instagram post by Collin Cunningham
• Taylor Otwell 🐘 on Twitter: "What do you hope for in Laravel 5.6? 😺"
• Equifax website borked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update
• All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx— AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017
• The Future of HHVM
• NPR Story - Social Security Numbers
• Keybase launches encrypted git

Adebayo “Ade” Alonge is the Nigerian co-founder of RxAll, a platform which provides patients in the developing world with authenticated and verified medicines. Prior to this, Ade was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and before that, he spent eight years working a Sanofi, Roche, and BASF. In this absorbing, not-so-quick chat with Andile Masuku, Ade unpacks the state of play within Nigeria's pharmaceutical mass market, and explains how RxAll is enabling direct access to affordable, high-quality medicines while helping to reshape drug purchasing habits within markets rife with counterfeit product.

Topics covered in this episode:

• WTF Python?
• Python Exercises
• Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"
• A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django
• pypi-parker
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/47

On today's episode, we learn about travel-hacking and building a fully remote company with the co-founders of FlightFox, as well as chat with former Stack Overflow mods turned current Stack Overflow developers to learn about moderator processes at SO.

Recorded October 5, 2017

Topics

• Halt and Catch Fire
• 20 Years of Stuff That Matters - Slashdot
• Certification - Docker, Inc.
• Dropbox brand update streamlines its logo and takes aim at creatives | TechCrunch
• IMF head foresees the end of banking and the triumph of cryptocurrency » Brave New Coin
• HPE coughed up source code for Pentagon's IT defenses to ... Russia
• Screwdriving. Locating and exploiting smart adult toys
• IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax - POLITICO
• ‘New internet’ looks to keep user data away from tech giants and bypass China censorship
• Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem

Topics covered in this episode:

• Scipy lecture notes
• Building a desktop notification tool for Linux using python
• Alice in Python projectland
• How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
• Halo: Beautiful terminal spinners in Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/46