Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

Post by AKrumbach » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

madmax108 wrote: post #57

I see a couple of Bret Victor videos here, but the one I loved the most was "The Future of Programming": https://vimeo.com/71278954 Really set me on a path of re-examining older ideas (and research papers), for applications that are much more contemporary. Absolute stunner of a talk (and the whole 70's gag was really great). "What would be really sad is if in 40 years we were still writing code in procedures in text…

Post by joatmon-snoo » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 10:41 PM UTC

smoldyr86 wrote: post #226

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #146

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Oh god yes. And from the Manta talk, to paraphrase: I believe that if you talk about Oracle without going into Nazi allegory, than some understanding has been left on the table. In fact, I firmly believe that if you were talking to someone who hadn't heard of WWII but was an Oracle customer, that you would explain the Nazis to them in Oracle allegory: Wow. Really? Yes, it's true: Larry Ellison owned a whole country O…

I worked for Oracle Social as a software engineer for some Facebook Pages WYSIWYG application, and this is their business model - as explained to me - when I asked, "Who is going to be buying our product?" My manager: "Oh, so we have all of these enterprise customers that purchase software from us. Basically, they are presented with a list of all of our various enterprise applications [FYI, there's a TON of them] wit…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 8:42 AM UTC

wrigby wrote: post #123

pradeepchhetri wrote: post #81

One of my favourite talks is by James Mickens at Monitorama 2015: https://vimeo.com/95066828

I was going to post this one as well - it's my all time favorite. He does a great job of making truly funny, yet incredibly intelligent jokes.

Post by theviajerock » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 12:36 PM UTC

Post by rkuykendall-com » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 8:59 PM UTC

oliv__ wrote: post #232

hans wrote: post #184

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o u said steve jobs: really his announcement of the ipod was an incredible speech .. it ties together tech+art+music+apple and his vision appears pretty fresh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs

Apple seemed so grounded and feature oriented back then. It's hard to believe that the iPhone's battery still only lasts a day or so after seeing this video.