| ▲ | shykes a day ago | |||||||
> Any interesting memories from that day in 2013? That day is forever engraved in my memory... Off the top of my head: I signed up for a lightning talk expecting an audience of 10-20 people, for a confidential demo of our unfinished project that we had so far only showed in 1-1 demos. Imagine my surprise when I learned Pycon does lightning talks on the main stage! The previous speaker didn't show, so I started early. In the recording you can hear me joke that perhaps I should get his time allocation too - the MC was not amused. I went over time and had to speedtalk through the end.. The MC once again was not amused and practically shoved me off stage :-D We had a small sponsor booth at the even, where our small marketing team was prepared to pitch our product (DotCloud) but was thoroughly confused when a horde of people showed up after the talk, to ask about "Docker" - which as far as they knew was the founder's side project. I drove down to Santa Clara on my newly acquired motorcycle - my very first trip on the freeway. I remember telling myself, "today is the day to take all the risks!" | ||||||||
| ▲ | gortok 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I was there as well, and while I was really impressed; I was also weirdly weirded out that this wasn’t a bigger deal to all the folks in attendance. And so that made me doubt that what I saw was that impressive, as surely other folks in the audience would know better than I would. | ||||||||
| ▲ | nzealand 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Whenever I am anxious about a presentation, a motorcycle ride to the presentation usually puts everything in perspective. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | indymike 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
I was there :-) My business partner at pycon observed that Docker looked like a complicated way to fix easy_install (at the time it looked like to official fix would be to adopt pip). I thought it had some potential :-) but definitely didn't expect it to take over the way it did. | ||||||||
| ▲ | w8vY7ER a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
How much have you ridden since that day? Any new bikes? | ||||||||
| ▲ | elendilm 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
That literally was history in the making. Much respect. | ||||||||
| ▲ | buddhistdude 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
now imagine what the guy who invented AI must've thought on his first motorcycle ride back from work | ||||||||
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