A lot of great talks already mentioned. Thought I'd add a gem from Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++
Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
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#112Anything by Bryan Cantrill, David Beazley or Joe Armstrong
Bryan Cantrill - Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers ((but really about Larry Ellison being a lawnmower...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI
David Beazley - Discovering Python (Dave is locked in a bunker for months with 1TB+ source code related to a patent law suit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
Joe Armstrong - React 2014 : Joe Armstrong - K things I know about building Resilient Reactive Systems ("What is on the wire?" Talks about protocols and other interesting things) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8
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#113Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4
This looks good.
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#114How to make Package Managers cry by Kenneth Hoste. https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU
It's funny, but still useful.
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#116Peter Sewell: Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIHPLFmcgA
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#117"Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.
I cut my unix teeth in the early '90s, on SunOS, and Cantrill really keeps the history relevant.
But truly, his Oracle rant was one for the ages. And this from me where our system RDBMS is Oracle, sigh.
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#118John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics development which i'll never understand but am fascinated by regardless.
His QuakeCon talks are particularly good.
QuakeCon 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28
QuakeCon 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk
I like his talks because he's always interested by what he's doing and it tends to make me interested again in code.
Linus Torvalds is another surprisingly good speaker. His talk on git - one of the dryest possible topics - was very interesting. There's not many other people I'd sit and listen to talk about SCM.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
#119"Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.
Just watched this talk - what an emotional ride!
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
Rich Hickey is great. I remember his Simplicity Matters keynote at Rails Conf 2012. So clear and insightful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0 Being able to explain a complex topic to diverse audiences is not easy to do. Rich does it very well.