Meta Loves Python

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/02/12/developer-tools/meta-loves-python/

by belter • 2 years ago

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ein0p3• 2 years ago

Can’t believe people actually have the time to listen to such podcasts. Why not post a transcript? It’s not even difficult to create it nowadays

packetslave• 2 years ago

Millions of people listen to podcasts every week.

ein0p3• 2 years ago

Technical ones? Please. It’s a particularly poor medium for anything technical and aimed at people who spend their entire days navigating text as quickly as humanly possible

LtWorf• 2 years ago

Ever read a transcript of a real dialog? They're loooooong.

nickpsecurity• 2 years ago

Many of us can read faster than they speak. We can also skim across the conversation for its highlights. Then, dig into what matters to us.

It’s an advantage to have transcripts.

swatcoder• 2 years ago

Many times, and much more quickly than were I to listen to the same dialog at some practical playback speed.

But yeah, you make a good point: it's even more efficient if people just prepare material to be read in the first place instead of relying on performed dialogs at all. That's always preferred.

hoistbypetard• 2 years ago

I keep a queue of such podcasts for times when I'm walking the dogs, cleaning the house, doing yard work, commuting, grocery shopping, waiting in line, etc. I listen to them at 1.5x to be able to hear more of them, and I still have to prioritize what I want to listen to most, but I find that little gaps in my life allow plenty of podcast listening time.

Solvency• 2 years ago

this was exactly how my life worked until I had a baby. Now I have to keep my ears open 24 hours a day. has completely killed my podcast consumption.

scarface_742• 2 years ago

It’s harder to read a transcript when I’m working out, going for a run and sometimes I just want to zone out on a plane, with my phone in my pocket

koala_man• 2 years ago

I know I keep posting this, but my favorite (half-joking) programming advice was from a Google dev infra engineer who said "Any Python script over 100 lines should be rewritten in Bash, because at least that way you're not fooling yourself into thinking it's production quality"

westurner• 2 years ago

Had they even written tests for shell scripts?

wffurr• 2 years ago

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/10/05/developer-tools/python... was linked from the post and has a description of the features they added in 3.12. I skimmed that instead of the podcast.

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