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Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?
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#12Strange Loop 2011, "We really don't know how to compute", Gerald Sussman ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T... ). That's not entirely fair though, insofar as I'm a sucker for a Sussman talk. Beyond that, I'd have to say Sam Aaron's Overtone presentation @ Clojure Conj 2011. At the moment, it strikes me that the obvious common element of both talks and speakers are their absolutely infectio…
Sam is a complete rock star. One of the few people I know who can get showstopper applause in the middle of a talk.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?
#13I liked the WWDC talks and Chris Liscio's talk at Çingleton.
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#14Two of the lunchtime sessions at WWDC really inspired me as did much of the entire conference.
Morten Lunds talk at the Power of 1 conference in Battersea powerstation
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#15Theo Schlossnagle's "Career Development" (Velocity 2011 Keynote):
Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?
#16Strange Loop 2011, "We really don't know how to compute", Gerald Sussman ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T... ). That's not entirely fair though, insofar as I'm a sucker for a Sussman talk. Beyond that, I'd have to say Sam Aaron's Overtone presentation @ Clojure Conj 2011. At the moment, it strikes me that the obvious common element of both talks and speakers are their absolutely infectio…
Sam crushed it. It felt like a TED talk. Hickey and Sussman at STLoop were both awesome, but Sam takes the cake. I hope the video goes up soon.
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#17"Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala" at Strange Loop.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Data-Structure...
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#18Glyph's keynote at Djangocon was hilarious and accurate. It also immediately sparked some wonderful and deep discussions about the future of Django.
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#19Microconf 2011 by a few hundred country miles.
I have never had my head crushed by so much actionable info in 1-2 days. The entire conference was worth it by the time the first speaker had done his session and it kept getting better.
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#20Design in the Land of Sharp Pointy Technologies, at Twiliocon