Today's shenanigans include Sarah Clatterbuck, Director of Engineering at LinkedIn and all-around awesome person! Also, Jay and David introduce Channels while Jess and Jenn compete to see who knows less about Star Wars.
African Tech Roundup - Uber Drivers In South Africa Are Now Considered Employees Of The Ride-hailing Service
According to a ruling made by South Africa's Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), an employer-employee relationship does, in fact, exist between Uber and driver-partners. This follows Uber being dragged to the CCMA several months ago by seven driver-partners who alleged that they were unfairly deactivated by the service.
The ride-hailing service has long contended that it is simply a virtual marketplace that connects drivers and passengers and not an employer-- citing the fact that Uber doesn't own cars or have drivers on their payroll.
In this African Tech Round-up episode, Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga discuss some of the legal implications of this ruling, and how they might compromise Uber's business model.
Music Credits:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
PHPUgly - 69:Eric Gets Fired
African Tech Roundup - Baba Zoumanigui reflects on his fruitful executive career at IBM
In this chat with Baba Zoumanigui, IBM's General Manager for French Speaking Africa, he shares insights drawn from his international IT career.
Baba gives us a sense of the lucrative value IBM is determined on unearthing in Africa and reflects candidly on what it takes for an African IT pro to navigate and thrive in a corporate scene dominated by Europeans and North Americans.
Python Bytes - #34 The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Topics covered in this episode:
- Easy Python logging with daiquiri
- The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
- The three laws of config dynamics
- Five Tips To Get You Started With Jupyter Notebook
- Cost of Coupling Versus Cost of De-coupling
- 100 Days of Code at PyBites
- Extras
- Joke
Talk Python To Me - #120: Python in Finance
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/120
PHPUgly - 68: Trunk Based Outrage
African Tech Roundup - Rebecca Enonchong on #BringBackOurInternet and why she’s fed up with African foreign aid
Rebecca Enonchong is an award-winning Cameroonian-born technology entrepreneur who is affectionately known as the "Queen of African Tech". Rebecca is the founder and CEO of AppsTech, and quite notably a co-founder and Vice-President of the African Business Angels Network (ABAN).
In this catch-up chat with Andile Masuku, Rebecca reflects on the #BringBackOurInternet campaign she continues to back, explains why she's annoyed by all the foreign aid money flooding Africa's tech scene and gives us a status update on her very public spat with MTN.
African Tech Roundup - Cisco’s Shaun Kirby on why the global mobility industry is ripe for disruption
Shaun Kirby oversees product development for Cisco's automotive and connected car business unit. He is responsible for evangelising and acting on trends that will disrupt and transform the world's mobility industry. In this conversation, he explains why he's excited about IoT and talks about whether it's sensible to anticipate that Africa will leapfrog the traditional motor vehicle to adopt more advanced mobility options, this as the global trend towards ride-sharing and self-driving vehicle deployment continues.
Python Bytes - #33 You should build an Alexa skill
Topics covered in this episode:
- Linting as Lightweight Defect Detection for Python
- You should build an Alexa skill
- RISE
- Closer
- Checklist for Python libraries APIs
- Fades
- Extras
- Joke