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Lightning Talks 2017-05-20 Morning
| Start | Speakers | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 0:15 | James Powell | penv: a stupid (but useful?) tool - A teaser for a script to replace virtualenv. |
| 5:45 | Amber Brown | Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity - Human identities have complexities, including changing names, different forms and surname orders, changing timezones and country names. Developers should not make assumptions. |
| 11:15 | Jelle Zijlstra | Fun with Type Annotations - Python has type annotations, which aids documentation and restructuring and also provides an oportunity to contribute to open source. |
| 14:15 | Mark Kohdev | Music Data, Metadata, and Morrrreeeee - Spotify has a lot of free metadata about music. |
| 18:45 | Nate Smith | Tildetown - tilde.town is an intentional digital community accessible over SSH. Non-commercial. |
| 24:00 | Patrick Laban | What do we hate? Time Zones! - Time zones are weirdly set up, e.g., daylight savings, Indian reservations, China, offsets by crazed weasels, and strange compromises. They are insane - don't roll your own timezone code. |