Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

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

South Korea has reportedly become the latest notable nation to follow the likes of Nigeria and China by outlawing the use of cryptocurrency. Given these developments, policymakers all across the continent are no doubt mulling over the merits of banning Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). They are probably concerned that by shunning cryptocurrencies, they might end up being on the outside looking in on a lucrative financial trend that may well prove impossible to rein in regardless. In this episode of the African Tech Round-up podcast, cryptocurrency enthusiast, Simon Dingle, joins Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga to discuss the great Bitcoin surge that is fueling the world's current obsession with virtual money. Simon explains why some people are displeased with the likes of PR journalism outfit, Memeburn, and CBS's cable channel, Showtime, for allegedly taking advantage of their audiences to mine crypocurrency. And in the wake of all the recent moving and shaking by some African virtual currency exchanges such as Luno, BitPesa and BitMari, Simon also factors in on what separates mediocre platforms from great ones. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

On this week's edition of The Stack Overflow Podcast, we get a visit from Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. We also chat with UX Research Kristina Lustig about Stack Overflow's mentorship program experiment. As usual, the gang gets into other shenanigans.

Recorded September 28, 2017

Topics

-Android Auto

Topics covered in this episode:

• pico
• High Sierra ships, first major OS with machine learning built in?
• A guide to logging in Python
• Let me introduce: slots
• pipenv revisited
• Stack Overflow gives an even closer look at developer salaries
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/45

Bertil van Vugt is Business Development Lead at the Amsterdam-based organisation, VC4Africa. In this quiet chat with Andile Masuku, taped at Afrobytes Tech Conference 2017, Bertil gives us a sense of the mind space tech industry business opportunities occupy in the average European. Given his vantage point, he's also well-placed to factor in on how Africa's tech ecosystem is coming along in terms of growth. Finally, Bertil also unpacks the noble rationale behind the recent launch of VC4Africa's online startup academy (https://academy.vc4a.com), and explains why he's bullish on the e-learning trend.