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Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
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#32"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.
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#33(Not software related, but highly educational)
How bacteria "talk" - Bonnie Bassler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWurAmtf78
Stefano Mancuso - The roots of plants intelligence TED talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Vck2iPvBs
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#34The Birth & Death of JavaScript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
A talk from the 'future' about how everything became 'YavaScript'.
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#35Prof. Harold Thrimbleby, “Designing IT to Make Healthcare Safer” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I
It might not sound like much from the title, but it's really worth a watch. Thrimbleby talks about UX (captivatingly, even though I'm not usually particularly interested in it) and the many, many bad examples within healthcare tech that leads, directly, to people dying—such as his mother. He also has some really interesting points about tires at one point. I'm not sure if I'm selling it.
These two are also really good: Steve Rambam, “You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k Lepht Anonym, “Cybernetics for the Masses” (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ
And this one always makes me chuckle: Bryan Lunduke, “Linux is Freaking Weird” (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY
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#36It may not be so "wow" now, but at the time it happened the Photosynth TED talk with Notre Dame blew my mind and has stuck with me https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM
Remember at the time of this talk things like Google Maps were still very new, and nowhere near this level of performance.
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#37CSS Grid Changes Everything - https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk
The speaker is good but I think I like it just because it fixes the relationship between HTML and CSS.
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#38Writing Quality Code in Erlang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyt9Vlkbis
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#39David Crane - The Internal Magic of the 2600: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY
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#40Talk on innovating in your field by Rodney Mullens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q
Grew up playing Tony Hawk. His talk really inspired me follow my creativity.