I recommend Sean Parent's talks: http://sean-parent.stlab.cc/papers-and-presentations/. Pretty much everything is very good. It's usually C++-centric, but his subjects are deep enough to be useful to software engineering in any language.
Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#142Bret Victor talks are inspirational: - Inventing on Principal https://vimeo.com/36579366 - Stop Drawing Dead Fish https://vimeo.com/64895205
on one level, yes
on another, they're down right scary and overwhelming, or at least dumbfounding and perplexing
..thinking specifically about The Humane Representation of Thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg I had to stop it half way through.. :-/
see also Seeing Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE
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#143Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Adding to that Simppe Made Easy, also by Rich Hickey
Nearly all of Rich Hickey's talks are worth giving a watch. He's an incredibly gifted speaker. The Value of Values and The Language of the System are also among his best.
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#144Alan Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVw42wWZWrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs
Ted Nelson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcqIlDhkSdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI
Doug Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2zJLiYMoXk
Steve Jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8
Jacob Appelbaum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTnLO-4p1o
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#145Although not strictly a talk, I would highly recommend the first of the SICP lectures[0], if only to expand your thinking about what computer science: "I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start. Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art. We'll actually see that computer s…
can someone please convince me that the use of the word "magic" is justified? yes I know sicp is universally exalted in the cs/programming community and even though I haven't read it yet I support the principle of a principled approach to computation (it's math after all in the purest sense) but I can't support the infantilism of words like magic and the wizard on the cover of the book because the two themes are dire…
even though I haven't read it yet
Maybe there's your answer.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#146I'll call out one channel that I haven't seen on this thread -- the Computer History Museum in Mountain View publishes some astonishing oral history videos, presentations and other footage. So many of the challenges that pioneers faced in the past have historical resonance; and unlike almost any other major human revolution, the pioneers of our space are captured in video that is readily available to all.
So you can hear the likes of Fred Brooks talking about IBM's approach to unifying operating system interfaces with System/360[1], Bjarne Stroustrup describing the origins of C++ [2], or watching Charles Simonyi and Tom Malloy demonstrating Bravo, the Xerox PARC document writer [3].
Some quite astonishing material hidden in their archive that hasn't in my view had nearly the audience it deserves.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0_Lzb1CJw&t=5422s)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#147David Beazley: Python concurrency from the ground up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
Oh, Dabeaz has so many great talks. He has one of those teaching styles that can contagiously convince even the most Python dismissive person to start learning it.
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#1481. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim H…
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#149Bret Victor talks are inspirational: - Inventing on Principal https://vimeo.com/36579366 - Stop Drawing Dead Fish https://vimeo.com/64895205
Yep, I thought Inventing on Principle was the best computer-related talk I've ever watched. Not easy to describe what it's about! Design, tools, art, UI, visualization, invention, life.
It's like he has caught on to a kind of a zen thing. It is almost as if he isn't even there, while presenting about a technological topic at all. That is just the media for him to get an expanded wisdom across. What that message is is hard to identify. But there is a glance of it at the end of inventing on principle. It's a lot more profound than what the talk seems to be at the surface.
I really wish he would publish more frequently He has inspired me greatly.
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#150MIT Pathway to Fusion Energy: