Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jonbarker » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #2

Big fan of Rich Hickey. I found most of his talks really great, and applicable beyond the Clojure universe. My favorites: "Are we there yet?" and "Simple made Easy".

+1 this comment. I do not recall in which of his talks he defines "complexity" but his definition is excellent.

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

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Post by dkasper » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #2

Big fan of Rich Hickey. I found most of his talks really great, and applicable beyond the Clojure universe. My favorites: "Are we there yet?" and "Simple made Easy".

Simple Made Easy is one of those talks that never gets old to me. Never heard anyone talk about the power of reducing complexity in such a clear way.

Here's the link for those who are interested. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

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

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Post by lumannnn » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

by Dave Thomas (PragDave)

"LoneStarRuby 2015 - My Dog Taught Me to Code by Dave Thomas" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBUsd52a3s

and

"GOTO 2015 • Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

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

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Post by azeirah » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose.

https://vimeo.com/36579366

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

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Post by okket » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

Linus Torvalds talk about git

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

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

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Post by corysama » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #2

Big fan of Rich Hickey. I found most of his talks really great, and applicable beyond the Clojure universe. My favorites: "Are we there yet?" and "Simple made Easy".

https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

Start with, in order: Hammock Driven Development, Simple Made Easy, The Value of Values, The Database as a Value,

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

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Post by miiiiiike » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

Chuck Rossi - How Facebook releases software: https://vimeo.com/56362484 I remember thinking "Dr. Cox as release manager."

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

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Post by vvanders » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

Herb Sutter, Modern C++ - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661

Great overview of value types, performance and how hardware that runs things still matters.

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

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Post by oleksiyp » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

One of the best talks about code reviews and similiar things

https://youtu.be/0SARbwvhupQ

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

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Post by pdkl95 » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing by Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt