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I guess this is more of a 'soft talk' but I still reference this all the time and watch it at least once a year. One of the more relevant and practical talks for any software company.
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This reminds me of a comment on a book titled ‘Discrete mathematics and its application’ by Kenneth Rosen which was along the lines of how smart the author was at the same time not being able to explain the concepts to someone else in an easy manner and to be honest I had the same feeling. I understood those concepts from other texts which definitely means that it isn’t me who was was inadequate or not upto the task.…
I TA'd a fist year University course using, I believe, that textbook during my final two years of undergrad. The material itself is difficult to learn and harder to teach well. At my University, it seemed that the Prof had to teach the subject for 3 or 4 years before they could reasonably get half the class to pass the final exam. At the same time, I've often felt like I would have no harder of a time teaching the su…
A lot of interpretation and intellectual confidence involved, difficult things to communicate.
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If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better, with all the peddling of node.js to the masses. It is rare for me to see someone come up with so much bullshit in one talk: https://vimeo.com/230142234 Since I don't want to end with a negative note, here is a personal favorite as far as best technical talks…
Could you maybe add a comment about what your favorite tech talk is? Right now I’m staring at a tiny url hoping I’m not going to be rick rolled.
Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development if illumos by Brian Cantrill https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc Quote copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There…
If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better, with all the peddling of node.js to the masses. It is rare for me to see someone come up with so much bullshit in one talk: https://vimeo.com/230142234 Since I don't want to end with a negative note, here is a personal favorite as far as best technical talks…
Elevator Hacking: From The Pit To The Penthouse by Deviant Ollam and Howard Payne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ They've done several iterations of this, including a censored/shorter version for DEFCON 22. This version is the best, with all details, no secrets withheld. I find the content rather stunning, and I've even watched it several times.
He has a few talks that he barely uses any presentation material and it's very good.
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Could you maybe add a comment about what your favorite tech talk is? Right now I’m staring at a tiny url hoping I’m not going to be rick rolled.
It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman
Direct download link for slides: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma...
- Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos
- Bryan Cantrill - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
- Guy Steele - Growing a Language
- David Heinemeier Hansson - Startup School 08
- Rich Hickey - Hammock Driven Development
The top 50 are listed at https://techyaks.com which I recently updated with a ranking "techyaks score" that ranks talks (first) by HN reference count.