Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

Post by whatyoucantsay » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

a_d wrote: post #65

Bret Victor - Inventing on principle https://vimeo.com/36579366 Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c Robert Cialdini - On Influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H…

Post by DaviedGabriel » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

nordsieck wrote: post #23

We Really Don't Know How to Compute: Gerry Sussman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU Zebras All the Way Down: Bryan Cantrill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: Jonathan Blow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure: Rich Hickey - https://…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

joe-collins wrote: post #60

Lending Privilege: Anjuan Simmons http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/ Not strictly about tech itself, but it was one of my favorites talks at CodeConf a few years back.

Post by stretchwithme » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 9:51 PM UTC

afro88 wrote: post #120

stretchwithme wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

Post by mmmuhd » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC