Can I just say anything with Bryan Cantrill?
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
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#42One in particular comes to mind that really changed the way I think about the larger problem of security in computer science and what a mess our current state of affairs seems to be in:
"The Science of Insecurity" by Meredith L. Patterson and Sergey Gordeychik (2011)
https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurit...
Warning: speaker likes to use profanity (which I enjoy :) but possibly NSFW if you're not on headphones
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#43David Beazley's, "Discovering Python": https://youtu.be/RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
A fascinating tale about using python during the discovery phase of a trial. Very fun watch. Anything by David Beazley is great!
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#44Artur Bergman, creator of the Fastly CDN, at Velocity 2011 - giving a (very) short talk about SSDs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7PJ1oeEyGg
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#45Eric Brandwine at AWS talking about how they solved the networking part of the cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E
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#46Right now it's Boundaries, by Gary Bernhardt. He details the importance of separating out pure business logic from the plumbing code that brings it input and directs its output ("functional core, imperative shell").
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#47https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
How Google backs up the internet.
At the time it changed how I thought about backups/reliability.
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#49By 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
Agreed.
Was gonna post this if it wasn't up already.
After this, The Birth and Death of Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
He could've taken the concept further tho. I think there are real hardware simplifications you could do if the OS is a jitting VM - no memory mapping unit and take out the expensive fully-associative TLBs.
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#50Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha: