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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by agumonkey »

maaaats wrote: post #70
agumonkey wrote: post #7

After lots of talks I started going to the library and found out it's a lot more effective to grow knowledge. Maybe I'm too ADHD-able when watching videos.

Talks are a great way to discover interesting ideas, technologies, concepts etc. And if the talk inspired, one can then later invest in reading a book.

Fair point, that said, don't forget libraries, they're full of gems.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #54
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #34

Linus Torvalds on Git. It's funny, and it really does tell you a lot about why Git is the way it is. Bryan Cantrill's 2011(?) Lightning talk on ta(1). It's fascinating, but it also shows you just long-lived software can be. Randall Munroe's Talk on the JoCo cruise. Because it's effing hilarious, and teaches everybody the important art of building a ball pit inside your house. Finally, an honorable mention to three pa…

> "Finally, an honorable mention to three papers that don't qualify, but which I think you should read anyway." If we're going for papers, then I'm guessing books are allowed too. If so, for anyone interested in giving themselves a grounding in the fundamentals, it's worth checking out Code by Charles Petzold. I've been going through it, it's excellently written, and has helped me fill in gaps in my understanding of…

SICP, Land of Lisp, Exploding the Phone, and The Cuckoo's Egg, while I haven't finished all of them, were all instrumental in making me who I am today.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by grose »

Lexical Scanning in Go by Rob Pike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE

I love everything about this talk. It walks you through building a lexer from scratch in a simple and elegant way, through a very interesting use of coroutines. I appreciate the bits of humor in the talk as well.

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