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▲ 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.

▲vel0city 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree with this take, even not riding as much as I'd like these days.

I had a pretty much near death motorcycle accident I happened to mostly walk away from which really made me restructure my perspective on things I'm afraid of.

It also managed to make my then to be wife realize she really couldn't live without me when I sent her a photo of a mangled bike and the text "ouchies", so that accident really changed my life positively and radically.

Although I'm still sad it destroyed my OG Surface Pro. It was a maxed out launch model with the year of the dragon touch cover I bought at a Microsoft store at a mall that doesn't even exist anymore. Worn in a messenger bag on my back, and ended up like a crazy twisted piece of metal in the end.

So yeah. Motorcycles. They'll change your life.

▲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

▲Rediscover 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Referencing bicycles and Dr. Albert Hofmann?