My recent talk at PyGotham 2017

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PyGotham is always a great conference, and I was happy to give this talk at this year's iteration.

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  1. Nathan Conroy8:33 PM

    I heard the presentation was terrible!

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  2. Ken B3:57 PM

    So, the state for each user is in vm, which is passed with each request. The data in Vm is a small memory array, a stack array, a set of registers and some flags. A request string is parsed and the corresponding op performed in vm. Users can inspect after each instruction. Is that the idea? (Do you have a page that displays the Blue Screen of Death?)

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    1. gcallah1:42 AM

      Well, they can also run code in chunks on the server, depending on whether they choose "Run" or "Step".

      But generally, yes.

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