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 kanishkvashisht » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

How we scaled DropBox - Kevin Modzelewski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

The initial Node.js presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY&t=597s

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

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Post by tomashertus » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

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

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Post by derpydev » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

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

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Post by kamyarg » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

This talk is both inspiring and funny, I got introduced to David Beazley by this talk and although every time I listen to him my barin melts, I enjoy his talks the most.

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

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Post by 0x445442 » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

soapdog wrote: post #69

Alan Kay - Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

Anything by Kay really.

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

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Post by lerax » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

nordsieck wrote: post #23

We Really Don't Know How to Compute: Gerry Sussman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU Zebras All the Way Down: Bryan Cantrill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: Jonathan Blow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure: Rich Hickey - https://…

Gerry Sussman talk is awesome and reflects very well the currently state of computer programming. It's a shame. The worse part: there is people around us with a lot of pride ABOUT DON'T KNOWING TO COMPUTE BUT STILL DOING [INNEFICIENT] THINGS. (sorry for the caps, good bye)

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

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Post by 0x445442 » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:54 AM UTC

How my bot net purchased millions in cars and defeated Russian hackers.

https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M

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

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Post by jakelazaroff » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:54 AM UTC

davidjnelson wrote: post #45

Inventing On Principle - Bret Victor https://vimeo.com/36579366

So glad someone posted this. Basically everything Bret Victor does is gold. His website [1] has a bunch of great things he's written/done; two of my favorites are The Ladder of Abstraction [2] and Learnable Programming [3].

[1] http://worrydream.com/

[2] http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

[3] http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

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

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Post by 0x445442 » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

Artemix wrote: post #2

My favourite talk group is the Chaos Computer Club Conferences, about security, privacy, and more. https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde

There's some really good DEFCON talks as well.

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

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Post by kevinSuttle » Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

davidjnelson wrote: post #45

Inventing On Principle - Bret Victor https://vimeo.com/36579366

Came here for this. My favorite talk of all time. Easily had the most impact on my career.