Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by gao8a » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

ng-wat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU

We need more stand up comedians as presenters

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by Stwerner » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:02 PM UTC

Really excited to go through all the other talks listed here I'm not familiar with!

Three talks that I tend to reference a lot and have had a huge impact on the way I think about software:

The Soul of Software: Avdi Grimm - https://youtu.be/IgbHzFb1hGw

The Humane Representation of Thought: Bret Victor - https://youtu.be/agOdP2Bmieg

How to Program Independent Games: Jonathan Blow - https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by tmwed » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

Worse is better!! — https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4

Genius.com CEO gives talk about how the worst possible thing you can think of, is in fact the best thing.

I like this video because I tend to get stuck in my own head, or get carried away on useless features/ideas that don't really contribute to the overall progress of the product.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by always_good » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

Functional Core, Imperative Shell by Gary Bernhardt.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

I saw it at my first job out of uni and it was so simple that it changed the way I wrote code at the time.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by reificator » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:12 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #11

A really fun and quick one is wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

This one is great, gives a lot of little gotchas for Ruby and Javascript in a humorous format.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by carusooneliner » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

This is an excellent series of short videos on the physics behind quantum computers. It begins with the molecular structure of carbon materials and gradually works its way up to quantum computers: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/caging-schrodingers-cat-qua...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:18 PM UTC

beside the nostaligia alan kay talks about sketchpad, sutherland and all that;

one of my top talks is dan friedman + will byrd doing evalo in minikanren.

similarly there's an old talk by sean parent about reversible computing while he was at Adobe R&D (kinda like relational programming of friedman and byrd, except, in cpp)

I also greatly enjoy anything chuck moore on forth / ga144

And recently the talk about the values of APL

Oh and Gary Bernhardt. Wat and the unix chainsaw. beautiful.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:21 PM UTC

gao8a wrote: post #51

ng-wat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU We need more stand up comedians as presenters

while we're at it:

chicken chicken chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by btown » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:30 PM UTC

Turning The Database Inside Out: Martin Kleppmann - https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou... in both video and blog form. Describes how to think about any software stack as layers of derived caches on top of immutable event logs, effectively proposing a solution to the first of https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html . It's certainly changed the way I approach software architecture.

Honorable mention: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Post by joe-collins » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

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.